Difference between revisions of "bulala"
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Revision as of 12:47, 25 November 2020
Naija
Etymology
From: Hausa "bulala" for cane
Pronunciation
- bùlálà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 0
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
Noun
Tiny stick or rope
- As teacher enter class with bulala everybody couple. — (NSC_Abonyi_2020, When the teacher walked into the classroom brandishing a cane the students behaved themselves.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: horsewhip, cane
Verb
- Make person take tiny stick rope pepper anoder person or ting.
- I go bulala you o. — (Egbokhare_22, I am going to flog the hell out of you!)
- Sey man sabi sleep with woman
- I go bulala you o. — (Egbokhare_2I will whip you with a horsewhip.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: to flog, to