yawa
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 ?
Pronunciation
- jáwá
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?
- Egbokhare
- Yawa don gas for my area. — no translation
Derived forms
Synonymes
- 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
- 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