akara

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba( bean cake)

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

Noun

1. Cake wey dey dey make from beans wey dey go con ground am before dey fry am.

• If I eat akara, I go dey mess.  — (Egbokhare_2020, If I eat fried beans balls, I fart uncontrollable.)
• Na every time e dey buy akara give Ekwefi carry go home for Ezinma.  — (katakata__834, He buys bean balls for Ezinma and gives it to Ekwefi to take it home for her. )
• We go come drop one, one kobo for bowl to chop bread, and akara.  — (NST_cleaned__41267, We drop one kobe each in our bowls in order to buy bean balls and bread.)

1. Sey someting no serious; na for small small pikin.

• You know, we dey go akara school dat time.  — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__121, In those days we attended school for little children.)

Translations

• English: fried bean balls