banga
Naija
Alternative forms
- soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102
Etymology
etymology:Urhobo
Pronunciation
- bàŋgá
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 62
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 207
- Frequency in raw corpus: 67
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2639
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
banga: palm fruit, palm kernel -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I like dey cook banga. — (I like cooking banga soup.)
- - (frequency:36)
- Na im, dey banga. — (BEN_08_Egusi-And-Banga-Soup_MG__47, That's what banga is.)
- I know banga soup. — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__43, I know banga soup.)
- nmod:poss (frequency:9)
- Put your banga inside di mortar. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__72, Put your banga in the mortar.)
- Carry your banga put for inside fire. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__50, Put your banga on the flame.)
- det (frequency:8)
- Eh e say you go parboil di banga. — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__58, She said you'll parboil the banga.)
- Use di pikin take am take beat di banga. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__73, Pound the banga with the child.)
- amod (frequency:7)
- Toh buy native banga. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__55, Well, buy the native banga.)
- Native banga no dey full. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__58, Native banga doesn't have much flesh.)
- amod-nmod:poss (frequency:2)
- Because your native banga, e no dey quick dey thick. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__62, Because your locally grown banga doesn't thicken up quickly.)
- But make sure sey your native banga, e plenty pass your agric banga. — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__65, But make sure that you use more of the locally grown banga than the genetically modified one.)
Related forms
Synonyms
- soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102
Antonyms
- soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102
Translations
- English: palm fruit, palm kernel