sha

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba sha meaning just

Pronunciation

• ʃɑ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 72
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 181
• Frequency in raw corpus: 352
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 873

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Particle

sha: no definition, really -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:370)

   Who sha?  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__84, Who sha...)

   sure sha  — (deuber__1159, __no translation__)

2. advmod:emph (frequency:12)

   No be all of dem sha o, but many.  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__52, Not all of them of course, but many.)

   But sha o, we sha thank God sey God don catch am.  — (IBA_33_News-Comments_MG__120, Well, we thank God that he's been apprehended.)

Synonyms

• mstchew 0.76 423, hm 0.70 1176, oh 0.66 337, really 0.64 1685, haha 0.64 836, yes 0.63 760, ehen 0.62 871, toh 0.60 307, sometimes 0.60 599

Antonyms

• mstchew 0.76 423, hm 0.70 1176, oh 0.66 337, really 0.64 1685, haha 0.64 836, yes 0.63 760, ehen 0.62 871, toh 0.60 307, sometimes 0.60 599

Translations

• English: no definition, really