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

kolobi, gbab,

Translations

• English: take off, run away