buka

Naija

Alternative forms

• expenses 0.77 15, featured 0.75 7, gym 0.74 32, sis 0.73 12, receiving 0.73 7, dad 0.72 10, exile 0.72 22, shirts 0.72 9, archbishop 0.72 30

Etymology

Borrowed from English buka

Pronunciation

• búkà

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 12
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 7325

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

buka: a local eating place, cafeteria -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E get one new buka wey dem open for area.  — (There is a new cafeteria in my area.)

2. - (frequency:3)

   Because of dat kain mouth, Fela dey go prison like say na buka.  — (bbc__19371, __no translation__)

   You know sey na buka, or beer parlour na im dem take dey see people wey dey gossip, wey we take dey hear news.  — (NST_cleaned__18724, __no translation__)

3. case-nmod:poss (frequency:3)

   I get enough work to do for my buka.Mrs.  — (deuber__2770, __no translation__)

   People dey still come chop for your buka.Which luck?  — (deuber__6505, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• expenses 0.77 15, featured 0.75 7, gym 0.74 32, sis 0.73 12, receiving 0.73 7, dad 0.72 10, exile 0.72 22, shirts 0.72 9, archbishop 0.72 30

Antonymes

• expenses 0.77 15, featured 0.75 7, gym 0.74 32, sis 0.73 12, receiving 0.73 7, dad 0.72 10, exile 0.72 22, shirts 0.72 9, archbishop 0.72 30

Translations

• English: a local eating place, cafeteria