Ologun

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yoruba olôgùn.

Noun

Ologun (plural Ologuns or 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.

   • 1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook

     An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.

   • 1998, I. A. Akinjogbin, War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893, Heinemann Educational Books →ISBN

     The strength of a state depended on the number and strength of its Ologun war chiefs, while the strength of an Ologun depended on the number of the solider-slaves he commanded.

   • 2008, Bonny Ibhawoh, Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History, SUNY Press →ISBN, page 102

     52 The newspaper reported that at the meeting in Abeokuta, a local chief, the Asipa of Egba and the official spokesman of the Ologuns (traditional war chiefs) summed up popular objection to colonial land reform proposals.

   • 2009, O. T. A. Omi OLO oshun, Pataki of Orisa and Other Essay's ^[sic] for Lucumi Santeria, Lulu.com →ISBN

     As fate would have it, an Ologun who had been on patrol in the area saw the commotion and rescued the Old man with the cane.

Anagrams

• Luongo, oulong