bale

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

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

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.)

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.)

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