sabi

Naija

Etymology

From: Portuguese sabir

Pronunciation

• sàbí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 63
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 206
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1914
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 199

Verb

1. Make person know someting.

   Sabi Your Partner  — (ja102__4316, Know your partner.)

   Lagos, Lagos na one big area wey be sey no man fit know am finish o, no man fit sabi am finish at all.  — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__3, Lagos, Lagos is one area which no man can know. )

   Once di guy come in, whether im dey play, im no sabi play, de no go keep am for bench like dat.  — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__42, Once the guy enters, whether he plays plays well or not, they will not just let him stay on the bench.)

   I sabi cook well.  — (NSC_Onwuegbuzia_Emeka, I know how to cook well.

   Today statue stand for where im fall to remind people of wetin happen dia, but no be everybody sabi so.  — (bbc__94424, __no translation__)

Derived forms

sabi people, sabi person, sabisabi, oversabi

Synonyms

grab, understand

Translations

• English: know