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 yawa
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 (frequency:Inf)
- Yawa don gas for my area. — no translation
- - (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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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