Difference between revisions of "babalawo"
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− | * | + | * Juju man, |
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Revision as of 12:15, 29 September 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
- kuami 0.89 7, mettle 0.88 5, julia 0.87 12, teigen 0.87 7, bambam 0.87 11, marouane 0.87 5, davis 0.86 8, desmond 0.86 10, logic 0.86 7
Etymology
etymology:Yoruba
Pronunciation
- bàbàláwó
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2803
- Frequency in raw corpus: 5
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 11138
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
babalawo: Person we dey help other persons do juju?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- E go meet babalawo make e give am juju. — (He/she went to meet an oraclist for charms.)
- - (frequency:4)
- If I see christian, if I see babalawo, I go follow am word. — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__141, If I see a Christain, if I see a Babalawo, I will talk to him.)
- Some of di victims say dem first cari dem go babalawo shrine to swear say dem no go tell police or anybodi wetin dey happen. — (bbc__91257, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- Juju man,
Antonyms
- kuami 0.89 7, mettle 0.88 5, julia 0.87 12, teigen 0.87 7, bambam 0.87 11, marouane 0.87 5, davis 0.86 8, desmond 0.86 10, logic 0.86 7
Translations
- English: an oraclist