Ologunとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Ologun (複数形 Ologuns または Ologun)

1. A member of the social class of warrior chiefs in Yoruba society.
   • 1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press →ISBN, page 128

     The real rulers of the town and its dependencies were the war chiefs, the Ologun, overshadowing the Ogboni

   • 1996, John Pemberton, Funso S. Afọlayan, Yoruba sacred kingship: "a power like that of the gods", Smithsonian Inst Pr

     Early in the morning of the third day, known as Osetita, Aworo Ose was led by Chief Oloyin, an Ologun warrior chief, to shrines along the roads leading into Ila.

   • 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press →ISBN, page 112

     Throughout the next four days the Ologun chiefs feasted one another in accordance with their rank.

   • 1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press →ISBN, page 117

     FIGURE 6.5. The Qrangun-Ila wearing the Ologun crown and greeting Ila's chiefs during Iwa Ogun.

2. (countable) A Yoruba warrior chief.
   • 1982, Jide Oguntoye, Too cold for comfort:

     Why the Ologuns decided to observe this tradition had beaten his imagination. The distance between Ibadan and Abeokuta ought to constitute enough check on them.