akara

Naija

Etymology

etymology:Yoruba

Pronunciation

• àkàrà

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1820
• Frequency in raw corpus: 11
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 7467

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

akara: fried bean balls -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   If I eat akara, I go dey mess.  — (If I eat fried beans balls, I will be farting anyhow.)

2. - (frequency:7)

   You know, we dey go akara school dat time.  — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__121, You know, we went schools for the sake of eating akara [bean cake] at that time.)

   Na every time e dey buy akara give Ekwefi carry go home for Ezinma.  — (katakata__834, __no translation__)

3. cc (frequency:2)

   we go come drop one, one kobo for bowl to chop bread, and akara.  — (NST_cleaned__41267, __no translation__)

   We go come go... we go come drop one, one kobo for bowl to chop bread, and akara.  — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__128, Then we'd go... we'd drop one kobo each into a bowl to eat bread and akara.)

Synonyms

• liquid 0.72 13, oxytocin 0.71 8, 866 0.70 6, vagina 0.70 28, chips 0.70 22, hormones 0.69 11, sti 0.69 7, biscuit 0.69 13, premature 0.69 28

Antonyms

• liquid 0.72 13, oxytocin 0.71 8, 866 0.70 6, vagina 0.70 28, chips 0.70 22, hormones 0.69 11, sti 0.69 7, biscuit 0.69 13, premature 0.69 28

Translations

• English: fried bean balls