bale
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
Noun
- Money wey person dey pay take comot for police cell.
- When de release you, abi you dem bale you? — (NSC_Emeka_2020, When were you released, or were you bailed?)
- Bag of Okririka.
- How many bale you want carry come market. — (NSC_Emeka_2020, How many bags of second-hand clothes did you bring to market.)
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