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Cognate across Volta-Niger, the term has remained relatively constant across all the languages in that group, making it potentially possible to reconstruct the root all the way to Proto-Volta-Niger, (see Proto-Volta-Niger*-bàlà). Cognate with IgalaỌ̀bàlà, ItsekiriỌ̀bàrà, ultimately derived from Proto-Yoruboid*ɔ̀-bàlà, see there for more cognates.
The seventh of the àpólà or sixteen categories in the odù Ifá, consisting of the seventh principal chapter, (Ọ̀bàrà méjì) and the other fifteen chapters of Ọ̀bàrà