buba

Naija

Etymology

From Yoruba: bùbá

Pronunciation

• bùbá

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2848
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 16896

Noun

• Na wetin dey wear ontop wrapper or shokoto.
  • Where you sew di buba wey you wear?  — (Egbokhare_2020, Where did you sew the trousers?)
  • I dey wear buba.  — (Egbokhare_2020, I wear blouse.)
  • Di kind cloth wey I dey sew, I dey sew iro, and buba, I dey sew gown, I dey sew skirt, and blouse.  — (NST_cleaned__36393, The kind of clothes of sew: I sew sew skirts, I sew blouses, I sew gowns, I sew skirts and and blouses. )

Translations

• English: traditional blouse