bale
Naija
Alternative forms
- courtois 0.88 20, thibaut 0.87 16, osimhen 0.87 13, gareth 0.86 27, borussia 0.86 41, iniesta 0.86 25, kylian 0.85 28, midfield 0.85 26, roberto 0.85 26
Etymology
Borrowed from English bale
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.
Verb
bale: take off, run away -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- As kalampo come, we bale for our lives o. — (As the police arrived, we ran for our lives.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- courtois 0.88 20, thibaut 0.87 16, osimhen 0.87 13, gareth 0.86 27, borussia 0.86 41, iniesta 0.86 25, kylian 0.85 28, midfield 0.85 26, roberto 0.85 26
Antonyms
- courtois 0.88 20, thibaut 0.87 16, osimhen 0.87 13, gareth 0.86 27, borussia 0.86 41, iniesta 0.86 25, kylian 0.85 28, midfield 0.85 26, roberto 0.85 26
Translations
- English: take off, run away