bata
Naija
Alternative forms
- reunite 0.80 9, supermodel 0.79 9, tajima 0.79 8, cesaria 0.77 9, dreadlock 0.77 5, ajegunle 0.77 19, ajibade 0.77 10, rasheedat 0.77 10, oriental 0.77 11
Etymology
etymology:Portuguese (sabato)
Pronunciation
- bàtà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 5
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 11295
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Noun
bata: shoe -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Di bata make sense sha. — (The shoe is nice.)
- - (frequency:3)
- Even to wear bata for leg, na for, na problem for dem. — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__21, To even put shoes on their legs is for... is a problem for them.)
- Some of dem sef, we dey see dem, de no even get shoe, de no get bata, for leg, — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__7, Even some of them, we see them... they don't even have shoes on... they don't have footwears.)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- reunite 0.80 9, supermodel 0.79 9, tajima 0.79 8, cesaria 0.77 9, dreadlock 0.77 5, ajegunle 0.77 19, ajibade 0.77 10, rasheedat 0.77 10, oriental 0.77 11
Antonymes
- reunite 0.80 9, supermodel 0.79 9, tajima 0.79 8, cesaria 0.77 9, dreadlock 0.77 5, ajegunle 0.77 19, ajibade 0.77 10, rasheedat 0.77 10, oriental 0.77 11
Translations
- English: shoe