babalawo

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?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E go meet babalawo make e give am juju.  — (He/she went to meet an oraclist for charms.)

2. - (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.)

3. - (frequency:5)

   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,

Synonyms

• Juju man, native doctor

Antonyms

• pastor, priest, imam,

Translations

• English: an oraclist