babalawo

Naija

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.)

   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

• pastor, priest, imam,

Translations

• English: an oraclist