amala

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba amala meaning yam flour

Pronunciation

• àmàlà

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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.

1. 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

akpu, starch

Translations

• English: "Yam flour meal

 a plantain or yam flour stirred in hot water to form solid, eaten with sauce.