brideprice
Naija
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Etymology
Borrowed from English brideprice
Pronunciation
- bráídpráìz
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- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
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- Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
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Noun
brideprice: the money paid to the parents of the woman on her wedding/marriage day (dowry) -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- You go must pay brideprice before you marry your wife. — (You must pay the dowry before you get married.)
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- English: the money paid to the parents of the woman on her wedding/marriage day (dowry)