Difference between revisions of "yawa"

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* overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50
 
* overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50
  
====Antonymes====
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* overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50
 
* overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50
  
 
====Translations====
 
====Translations====
 
* English: problem
 
* English: problem

Revision as of 20:17, 10 August 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

  • overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawa

Pronunciation

  • jáwá

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 46
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3351

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Noun

yawa: problem -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Yawa don gas for my area.  — no translation
  2. - (frequency:22)
    All dis one wey we dey talk, na yawa.  — (NST_cleaned__26061, __no translation__)
    Why yawa dey always find Dino Melaye?  — (bbc__100706, __no translation__)
  3. case-det (frequency:6)
    Meanwhile, de never tok di cause of di yawa and mention di name of dis officer-dem, wey de suspend-so.  — (ja102__3412, __no translation__)
    He wey react to dis kasala wey happen-so, he say di thing touch ein mind well-well, as e see di burn-burn of di dead-bodi of di innocent mama and her pikin, wey die inside dat yawa.  — (ja102__5658, __no translation__)
  4. det (frequency:5)
    Una wey dis yawa for happen.  — (ja102__5160, __no translation__)
    De back to Kano pillars club house, after ein bin finish to visit ein former Enyimba teammate-dem inside dia hotel weyn dis yawa con happen on Sunday night.  — (ja102__824, __no translation__)
  5. amod-det (frequency:3)
    No be today dis kain yawa don gas for Japan.  — (bbc__75056, __no translation__)
    Patel say make foreign investors shine eye wella for wetin P&ID dey experience before dem enta dis same yawa.  — (bbc__80599, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50

Antonyms

  • overnight 0.69 32, teargas 0.67 23, somersault 0.66 11, pipeline 0.66 84, pick-up 0.65 20, gas 0.65 218, pipe 0.65 20, tanker 0.64 167, missile 0.64 50

Translations

  • English: problem