bata

Naija

Etymology

From Yoruba bata (shoe)

Pronunciation

• bàtà

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 5
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 11295

Noun

Someting wey people dey wear cover deir leg.

1. Di bata make sense sha.  — (Egbokhare_2020, The shoe is nice.)
2. Even to wear bata for leg, na for, na problem for dem.  — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__21, To even put shoes on their legs is for... is a problem for them.)
3. Some of dem sef, we dey see dem, de no even get shoe, de no get bata, for leg,  — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__7, Even some of them, we see them... they don't even have shoes on... they don't have footwears.)

Translations

• English: shoe