baf

Naija

Alternative forms

• baff

Etymology

• From English: bathe

Pronunciation

• bâf

Noun

• Plastic basin wey dem dey take baf new born baby.

• Abeg give me di baf for outside, I wan baf my baby.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Please, give me the plastic basin outside, I need to bathe my baby.)
• Na my mama sell dat pink baby baf wey you break so give Mrs Dada when she get belle dat year.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. My mother sold that pink coloured baby bath you broke to Mrs Dada when she was pregnant.)

Translations

• English: a bath tub or plastic basin made for bathing new babies.

Verb

• make person wash im body

transitive

• Make dem use water and soap wash someting

• Her own na to wake up, baff dey go school  — (NST_cleaned__21573, Hers is to wake up, bathe and go to school.)
• Na fuel water we dey use cook and baff.  — (bbc__9136, We make use of water contaminated by petroleum for cooking and bathing.)
• Abeg I wan baf my dog jare.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Please, I want to give my dog a bathe.)
• I wan go baff inside de new swimming pool for Ayinla hotel.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I want to go and have my bath inside the new swimming pool at Ayinla hotel.)

Intransitive

1. Make person wash im body

   • I wan baf for house.  — (Egbokhare, 2020. I want to have my bath at home.)
   • To baf dey hungry me.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I want to have my bath.)

2. Na jazz wey person do to fit get power.

   • Di politician don baf, naim make am get mind.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021, The politician has gone to fortify himself, that's why he is bold.)

3. Make person don hold im side well well.

   • Dat boy wey toast Amaka don baf?.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021, That youngman wooing Amaka, is he capable? .)

Derived forms

• baff up

Translations

• English: to bathe