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
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?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Edidiong dabaru everything. — (Edidiong disrupted everything.)
- 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__)
- 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.)
- 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__)
Derived forms
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