yawa

Naija

Etymology

From: Hausa 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

Noun

• Someting wey be wahala or bring wahala.

1. Yawa don gas for my area.  — Egbokhare_2020, Crisis has erupted in my area.

   All dis one wey we dey talk, na yawa.  — (NST_cleaned__26061, All these things we are deliberating on are problems.)

   Why yawa full many marriage nowadays be say de man and woman no trust demselves again.  — (NSC_Legbeti-2021. Many marriages are in trouble today because trust is missing.)

   Why yawa dey always find Dino Melaye?  — (bbc__100706, Why is Dino Melaye always in trouble?)

Synonyms

• wahala, problem

Translations

• English: crsis, problem, trouble