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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 ===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===
-Dem dey use am especially [[uniform people]]
-===Definition===
-Na di illegal money wey de dey give.
 ===Noun===
-* {{ux|dv|If you give police '''egunje''', dem go allow you 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 dare to 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 forms====
+:* {{ux|dv|Nobody go come meet dem give dem '''egunje'''.|(No one will dare to bribe them.)}}
+====Synonym====
 * [[wuruwuru]], [[magomago]], [[drop]]
 ====Translations====
-* English: ''bribe'', ''gratification''
+* English: ''bribe'', ''tip''