bow

Naija

Etymology

From English: bow

Pronunciation 1

• bôw

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 13
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 618
• Frequency in raw corpus: 64
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2729

Noun

Weapon wey de dey take shoot arrow.

• E also sabi the tree wey good apss to make bow.  — (katakata__268, __no translation__)
• wan shoot di ting bow, and arrow, di ting no go enter.  — (NST_cleaned__37745, __no translation__)

=Related form

• bowleg

Translations

• English: bow

Pronounciation 2

• baʊ̂

Verb

1. Make dem respect person.

   • If you see as di man take rotate di motor, you go bow.  — (If you see the way the man swerved the car, you will respect his driving skills.)

2. Make person shock.

   • When you see di babe, you go bow.  — (When you see the girl, you will be awe stricken.)

3. Make person dey bend like sey e dey greet.

   • We dey bow to different people.  — (IBA_31_Lens-Sermon_MG__87, We bow to different people.)
   • Better dey if you fit just bow.  — (NST_cleaned__39656, )

4. Make dey worship person or someting.

   • We dey bow to people wey dey lie to us, we dey bow to traditionalists, we dey bow to different people, all, because we want money.  — (NST_cleaned__39661, We respect those who lie to us, we worship traditionalists, bow to different people, all because we want money.)
   • This one come make dem bow down for Jesus.  — (jw__29933, This was the reason why they bow down in worship to Jesus.}

Synonyms

• bend

Antonyms

• up

Translations

• English: to respect, be overwhelmed,amazed, bow, worship