Difference between revisions of "bale"

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===Noun===
 
===Noun===
# bale: Money wey person dey pay take comot for police cell
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# Money wey person dey pay take comot for police cell.
#: {{ux|dv| When you comot now, abi you dem '''bale''' you?| ( When did you come out, or were you bailed?)}}
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#:* {{ux|dv| When de release you, abi you dem '''bale''' you?| (NSC_Emeka_2020,  When were you released, or were you bailed?)}}
# bale ( dis one no get '''bail''' as alternative form) bag of Okririka.
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# Bag of Okririka.
#: {{ux|dv| How many '''bale''' you want carry come market. | ( How many bags of second-hand clothes did you bring to market.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv| How many '''bale''' you want carry come market. | (NSC_Emeka_2020, How many bags of second-hand clothes did you bring to market.)}}
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====Translations====
 
====Translations====
 
* English: take off, run away
 
* English: take off, run away
 
  
 
===Verb===
 
===Verb===

Revision as of 16:09, 6 October 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

Bail

Etymology

Borrowed from English bail

Pronunciation

  • bêl

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 1
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 38991

Noun

  1. Money wey person dey pay take comot for police cell.
    • When de release you, abi you dem bale you?  —  (NSC_Emeka_2020, When were you released, or were you bailed?)
  2. Bag of Okririka.
    How many bale you want carry come market.  —  (NSC_Emeka_2020, How many bags of second-hand clothes did you bring to market.)

Antonyms

kolobi, gbab,

Translations

  • English: take off, run away

Verb

  1. bale: take off, run away
    Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    As kalampo come, we bale for our lives o.  — (As the police arrived, we ran for our lives.)

Derived forms

Synonyms

Antonyms

kolobi, gbab,

Translations

  • English: take off, run away