dabaru

Naija

Alternative forms

• pafuka 0.76 9, advancement 0.73 5, finding 0.72 20, government-dem 0.70 6, stabilize 0.68 10, govern 0.68 26, re-elect 0.68 6, tariff 0.68 10, tcn 0.68 9

Etymology

etymology:Hausa

Pronunciation

• dàbàrú

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1631
• Frequency in raw corpus: 21
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5223

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

dabaru: to disrupt -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Edidiong dabaru everything.  — (Edidiong disrupted everything.)

2. obj (frequency:4)

   dem still wan dabaru di whole thing.  — (deuber__6462, __no translation__)

   Niger, Benin, Chad and Cameroon dey share border wit Nigeria and Mr Ogbeh say one of di kontri dey try dabaru Nigeria economy.  — (bbc__72897, __no translation__)

3. aux-nsubj (frequency:3)

   E don dabaru.  — (IBA_21_Obodo-Barracks_MG__64, It's fucked.)

   Everyting don dabaru.  — (IBA_21_Obodo-Barracks_MG__62, Everything is fucked.)

4. aux-obj (frequency:2)

   Importation dey dabaru' our economy'  — (bbc__9034, __no translation__)

   But Rotimi warn say some tins wey di kontri dey face fit dabaru di good plans wey Emefiele get.  — (bbc__21601, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• pafuka 0.76 9, advancement 0.73 5, finding 0.72 20, government-dem 0.70 6, stabilize 0.68 10, govern 0.68 26, re-elect 0.68 6, tariff 0.68 10, tcn 0.68 9

Antonyms

• pafuka 0.76 9, advancement 0.73 5, finding 0.72 20, government-dem 0.70 6, stabilize 0.68 10, govern 0.68 26, re-elect 0.68 6, tariff 0.68 10, tcn 0.68 9

Translations

• English: to disrupt