Difference between revisions of "bale"

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Revision as of 14:12, 14 August 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. 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?)
  2. 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

  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