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Revision as of 13:32, 14 August 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English bail
Pronunciation
- bêl
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 38991
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Noun
- bale: Money wey person dey pay take comot for police cell
- When you comot now, abi you dem bale you? — ( When did you come out, or were you bailed?)
- bale ( dis one no get bail as alternative form) bag of Okririka.
- How many bale you want carry come market. — ( How many bags of second-hand clothes did you bring to market.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
kolobi, gbab,
Translations
- English: take off, run away
Verb
- 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