black

Naija

Etymology

From English: black

Pronunciation

• blâk

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 904
• Frequency in raw corpus: 455
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 698

Adjective

1. Na di color of someting.

   • I get black.  — (JOS_21_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-1_DG__76, I have the colour black.)
   • AFP For Ghana red and black na traditional colours for mourning  — (bbc__9949, __no translation__)

2. Na di color of di skin of person wey dark.

   • You see sey I black so so wine colour dey fit, e dey fit black people.  — (LAG_01_Hairdressing_M__15, You see I'm black, so wine colour looks good... it looks good on black people.)
   • As I enter Cameroon, na only black, black I dey see o.  — (NST_cleaned__20244, __no translation__)
   • E fit happen to anybodi, whether dem black or white or dem dey for Africa, Asia or Europe.  — (bbc__44474, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• dudu

Antonyms

• yellow

Translations

• English: black