Ondo

Meanings

Proper Noun

• major city {{w (province) Ondo State|c/Nigeria}}.
• state Nigeria (country), in the southwestern part of the country.
• historical kingdom Nigeria (country).
• A dialect of Yoruba spoken in Ondo State.

Noun

• People of Ondo City, Ondo State, and/or Ondo Kingdom, collectively.

Adjective

• Of, from, or pertaining to Ondo City, Ondo State, Ondo Kingdom, their people or their cultures.
• Of, from, or pertaining to the Ondo dialect of Yoruba.

Origin

• Borrowed
• either from Basque ondo ("deep valley, ravine, gully"),
• or from Hungarian Ondó, from the given name Ond + -ó, hence unrelated to ondó.
• From Yoruba Òǹdó.