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Revision as of 14:01, 7 January 2022
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English: holler
Pronunciation
- hálà
Verb
Transitive
- Make person hail person.
- Oga, all your boys dey here dey hala you. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. Boss, your boys are greeting you.)
- Ben, hala your friend now. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. Ben, send a shout out to your friend.)
Intransitive
- Make person dey talk dey shout join.
- Di thing be say, as im vex enter field to hala for di referee, im carry gun for di side of im jeans trouser. — (bbc__38844, The thing is that he entered the field to shout at the referee with a gun hidden in his jean trousers.)
- Goment charge her wit murder - but afta pipo hala, dem stop di prosecution and she come fit focus on her pikin recovery. — (bbc__54443, Although the government charged her with murder, people's loud protests stopped further prosecution and she was now able to focus on nursing her baby to recovery)
- E come hala again. — (katakata__10. He came ranting again.)
- I sabi hala o — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. I can yell!)
- Make dey quarrel.
- Any man wey marry woman wey too dey hala no go live long. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. Any man married to a troublesome woman will hardly live long)
- Dat compound, people sabi hala everyday. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. In that compound, people quarrel everyday.)
- Di NLC don hala on top Baba Buhari o. — (IBA_32_Tori-By-Samuel_MG__14, The NLC has called out President Buhari.)
- I hala give my friend when she do anyhow. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. I called out my friend when she offended me.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: yell, shout. quarrel