abiku
Naija
Etymology
From Yoruba abiku (stillbirth)
Pronunciation
- àbíkú
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 0
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
Noun
Na di spirit wey dey cause pikin die untimely plus pikin wey die wen dem dey born dem or wen den dey young.
- I hear sey im pikin na abiku o. — Egbokhare_2020, I heard that her child is stillbirth.
- Im pikin die before five months, na abiku dey worry am. — NSC_Tella-2020, Her child die before he was five months, it is the spirit of stillbirth that is disturbing her.
Translations
- English: (1) The spirit that causes the death of the children before reaching pubescence; (2) The children believed not to live above pubescence.