àlàáfíà
noun
/à.làá.fí.à/
Definitions
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good health, peace (often used in salutations)
Ṣé àlàáfíà ni? How are you?Used in
Etymology
From Hausa lāfiyā̀.
Used in
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
alafiaKrio
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “alaafia”.
Reference:
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