Difference between revisions of "akata"

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Person or place wey dey [[obodo]] [[oyibo]].
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* Person or place wey dey [[obodo]] [[oyibo]].
:{{ux|dv|Woman wey marry '''akata''' man no fit make her husband Nigerian citizen. |(bbc__101141, A woman may not be able to make her African American husband become a Nigerian citizen.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv|Woman wey marry '''akata''' man no fit make her husband Nigerian citizen. |(bbc__101141, A woman may not be able to make her African American husband become a Nigerian citizen.)}}
:{{ux|dv|Goment say e no get how dis '''akata''' kontries wan take chook mouth for Nigeria democracy as dem too dey practise democracy. |(bbc__54535, The government is aware that democratic countries cannot interfere in Nigeria's democracy.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv|Goment say e no get how dis '''akata''' kontries wan take chook mouth for Nigeria democracy as dem too dey practise democracy. |(bbc__54535, The government is aware that democratic countries cannot interfere in Nigeria's democracy.)}}
  
 
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Revision as of 15:33, 10 May 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba akata meaning wild cat

Pronunciation

  • àkátá

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 5
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12088

Noun

Oyibo person wey papa papa come from Africa.

  • Tolu be akata.  — (Egbokhare_2020, Tolu is an African American.)

Related Forms

akate

Synonyms

jand, obodo

Translation

English: African-American

Adjective

  • Woman wey marry akata man no fit make her husband Nigerian citizen.  — (bbc__101141, A woman may not be able to make her African American husband become a Nigerian citizen.)
  • Goment say e no get how dis akata kontries wan take chook mouth for Nigeria democracy as dem too dey practise democracy.  — (bbc__54535, The government is aware that democratic countries cannot interfere in Nigeria's democracy.)

Related forms

akaterian, jandon

Synonyms

obodo oyibo


Translations

  • English: Foreign countries