yawa

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Naija

Etymology

Borrowed 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.
  1. Yawa don gas for my area.  — Egbokhare_2020, Problem has ensued in my area.
    All dis one wey we dey talk, na yawa.  — (NST_cleaned__26061, All these things we are deliberating are problems.)
    Why yawa dey always find Dino Melaye?  — (bbc__100706, Why is Dino Melaye always in trouble?)


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Synonyms

  • wahala, problem


Translations

  • English: problem
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