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Adìẹ — Chicken
Category: Birds
Chicken — the most common domestic bird in Yorùbá households, raised for both meat and eggs.
Adìẹ features in many Yorùbá proverbs and is a traditional gift or sacrifice at naming ceremonies and other important occasions.
Chickens are the most common domestic bird kept in Yorùbá compounds, raised for both eggs and meat, and woven into daily life closely enough to appear constantly in proverbs about caution, parenting, and timing.
Adìẹ is also a traditional gift at naming ceremonies and other important occasions, often alongside goat meat, reflecting its practical role in the household economy as much as its symbolic one.
Example: A ní adìẹ márùn-ún nínú àgbàlá wa. — "We have five chickens in our compound."
Related words:
- Ẹyin adìẹ — Egg
- Ìsọmọlórúkọ — Naming ceremony