Difference between revisions of "egunje"

Latest revision as of 10:25, 29 February 2024

From Yoruba: egunje

If you give police egunje, dem go allow you drive pass. — (If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.)
Nobody go come meet dem give dem egunje. — (No one will dare to bribe them.)

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 ==Naija==
 ===Etymology===
-from: Yoruba egunje
+From Yoruba: ''egunje''
 ===Pronunciation===
-* ègúndʒē
+* ègúndʒɛ̄
 <sm2>Pcm-ng-egunje.f.ogg</sm2>
 <sm2>Pcm-ng-egunje.m.ogg</sm2>
-===Frequency===
-* Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
-* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
-* Frequency in raw corpus: 4
-* Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14003
-===usage===
-de dey use am for west (Yoruba land).
 ===Noun===
-egunje: na de kin mago mago things wey people dey do or give wey no clean at all.
+* Money wey de dey give [[uniform people]] wey de no suppose give dem.
-#: {{ux|dv|If you give police '''egunje''', dem go allow drive pass. |(If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.(Egbokhare )}}
+:* {{ux|dv|If you give police '''egunje''', dem go allow you drive pass.|(If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.)}}
-#: {{ux|dv|dem go say '''egunje''' dey |( They agreed to the effect of gratification.)}}
+:* {{ux|dv|Nobody go come meet dem give dem '''egunje'''.|(No one will dare to bribe them.)}}
-#: {{ux|dv|nobody go come meet dem give dem '''egunje''' |( No one will give them illegal fees.)}}
+====Synonym====
+* [[wuruwuru]], [[magomago]], [[drop]]
-====Related====
-* [[roger]], [[kola nut]], [[wuru wuru]]
 ====Translations====
-* English: bribe, gratification
+* English: ''bribe'', ''tip''