banga

Naija

Alternative forms

• soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102

Etymology

etymology:Urhobo

Pronunciation

• bàŋá

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 62
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 207
• Frequency in raw corpus: 67
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2639

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

banga: palm fruit, palm kernel -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I like dey cook banga.  — (I like cooking banga soup.)

2. - (frequency:36)

   Na im, dey banga.  — (BEN_08_Egusi-And-Banga-Soup_MG__47, That's what banga is.)

   I know banga soup.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__43, I know banga soup.)

3. nmod:poss (frequency:9)

   Put your banga inside di mortar.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__72, Put your banga in the mortar.)

   Carry your banga put for inside fire.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__50, Put your banga on the flame.)

4. det (frequency:8)

   Eh e say you go parboil di banga.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__58, She said you'll parboil the banga.)

   Use di pikin take am take beat di banga.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__73, Pound the banga with the child.)

5. amod (frequency:7)

   Toh buy native banga.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__55, Well, buy the native banga.)

   Native banga no dey full.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__58, Native banga doesn't have much flesh.)

6. amod-nmod:poss (frequency:2)

   Because your native banga, e no dey quick dey thick.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__62, Because your locally grown banga doesn't thicken up quickly.)

   But make sure sey your native banga, e plenty pass your agric banga.  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__65, But make sure that you use more of the locally grown banga than the genetically modified one.)

Synonyms

• soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102

Antonyms

• soup 0.82 229, beans 0.77 97, crayfish 0.75 25, bitterleaf 0.74 18, starch 0.73 42, egusi 0.73 35, ingredients 0.72 43, nails 0.72 59, leaf 0.72 102

Translations

• English: palm fruit, palm kernel