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Revision as of 18:30, 9 December 2020
Naija
Etymology
From: Yoruba amala meaning yam flour
Pronunciation
- àmàlà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2603
- Frequency in raw corpus: 13
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 6805
Noun
Na food wey de dey make with powder of yam or plantain and take soup chop am.
- All of dem dey deir mama house dey chow amala. — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__375, All of them are in their parents' houses enjoying the delicacy made with yam flour.)
- Dem tell you sey me, I no sabi dey mama house dey chow amala we dey make sense…? — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__380, Did they tell you that I, I can't stay back in my mother's house to eat the palatable yam flour meal?)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: "Yam flour meal
a plantain or yam flour stirred in hot water to form solid, eaten with sauce.