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.)

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ==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)
-egunje: Na de kin illegal things wey people dey do or give wey (like money) no clean at all.
 ===Noun===
-#: {{ux|dv|If you give police '''egunje''', dem go allow drive pass. |(Egbokhare 2020,If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.}}
+* Money wey de dey give [[uniform people]] wey de no suppose give dem.
-#: {{ux|dv|Nobody go come meet dem give dem '''egunje''' |( No one will give them illegal fees.)}}
+:* {{ux|dv|If you give police '''egunje''', dem go allow you drive pass.|(If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.)}}
-====Related====
+:* {{ux|dv|Nobody go come meet dem give dem '''egunje'''.|(No one will dare to bribe them.)}}
-* [[roger]], [[kola nut]], [[wuru wuru]], [[mago mago]]
+====Synonym====
+* [[wuruwuru]], [[magomago]], [[drop]]
 ====Translations====
-* English: ''bribe'', ''gratification''
+* English: ''bribe'', ''tip''