jagaban

Naija

Etymology

etymology:Derived from the title of a Yorua politician who was honoured with the title of Jagaban by Emir of Borgu.

Pronunciation

  • jàgàbâ

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 4
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14079

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Usage

Definition

Person wey be oga for group, especially if na politics or na agberos dey di matter

Noun

  1. Jagaban no go contest for president o.  — Leader does not want to contest for presidency.
    Free am, im no know sey you be di jagaban for this hood.  — Ignore him! He doesn't know you are the leader in this area.


Derived forms

Synonyms

  • leader

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: leader