agbada
Naija
Etymology
From: Yoruba robe worn by men
Pronunciation
- ágbádá
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2163
- Frequency in raw corpus: 14
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 6538
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
agbada: a kind of native attire mostly worn by the yorubas and hausas in Nigeria -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Im dey sew new agbada. — (He is sewing a new Agbada.)
- - (frequency:6)
- As in kai agbada don hook wire today, be dat! — (KAD_13_Entering-University_MG__60, In other words, it means man, I'm stuck!)
- some dey wear agbada, some dey wear different attire. — (NST_cleaned__36817, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- irep 0.83 5, ebuka 0.83 17, monye 0.83 7, mixture 0.83 12, ugo 0.83 12, katie 0.83 6, 3d 0.82 5, scenes 0.82 8, tuface 0.82 19
Antonyms
- irep 0.83 5, ebuka 0.83 17, monye 0.83 7, mixture 0.83 12, ugo 0.83 12, katie 0.83 6, 3d 0.82 5, scenes 0.82 8, tuface 0.82 19
Translations
- English: a kind of native attire mostly worn by the yorubas and hausas in Nigeria