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babalawo: Person we dey help other persons do juju. | babalawo: Person we dey help other persons do juju. |
Revision as of 14:44, 29 September 2020
Naija
Etymology
from: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
Definition
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.)
- 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, — Some of the victims said that they took them first to a babalawo's shrine to take an oath that they won't tell the police or anyone else about the incident.)
Synonyms
- Juju man, native doctor
Antonyms
Translations
- English: an oraclist