born

Naija

Alternative forms

• bon

Etymology

etymology:English ' born' .

Pronunciation

• bɔ̂n

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 67
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 192
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1286
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 289

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

born: to give birth to -- Make person (woman) drop engine

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Ope don born.  — (Ope has given birth.)

2. obj (frequency:67)

   Born guy.  — (ENU_31_Imo-State-Politics_DG__127, Gave birth to a boy.)

   Born dat ting,  — (ENU_30_Animals-Rights-In-Usa_T__65, Ignore that thing.)

3. mark-obj (frequency:55)

   Your papa and your mama wey born you.  — (jw__48074, __no translation__)

   No be na mama wey born me dey born dem?  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__56, Is it not the same mother who gave birth to me that also gave birth to them ?)

4. - (frequency:40)

   Wey dem born me?  — (NST_cleaned__18293, __no translation__)

   e turn born again.  — (deuber__5542, __no translation__)

5. advcl (frequency:29)

   Second born  — (NST_cleaned__40963, __no translation__)

   third born na woman.  — (deuber__789, __no translation__)

6. nsubj (frequency:23)

   I born?  — (IBA_17_Julie-And-Danile_DG__52, Did I give birth ?)

   Na im dem born.  — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__47, That's what they gave birth to.)

7. mark (frequency:13)

   De say de no dey count pikin for person wey born pikin.  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__153, They said they don't count children for the person that gave birth to the children.)

   About 150,000 pikins wey dem born yearly dey get di disease for Nigeria.  — (bbc__1976, __no translation__)

8. aux-obj (frequency:12)

   Na there Mary for born Jesus.  — (jw__44582, __no translation__)

   No be na mama wey born me dey born dem?  — (NST_cleaned__28702, __no translation__)

9. cc-obj (frequency:11)

   This one mean sey Jephthah pikin no go marry, or born pikin.  — (jw__9092, __no translation__)

   Dem marry women and the women born children wey wicked well well.  — (jw__36468, __no translation__)

10. amod-det (frequency:7)

    Na you be di last born?  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__85, It is you that is the last born ?)

    E con reach di last born.  — (BEN_34_Tale_MG__44, Then, it was the last one's turn.)

11. aux (frequency:6)

    Woman, na dem dey born,  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__3, Women give birth to children.)

    Woman use razor tear her belle to born her pikin Di kontri wia abortions plenti pass pikin dem dey born  — (bbc__101131, __no translation__)

12. obl:arg (frequency:6)

    born for me.  — (NST_cleaned__33635, __no translation__)

    Dem con move... born for me.  — (KAD_17_Turkeys_MG__39, They have moved... given me chicks.)

13. advmod (frequency:3)

    No, no be wetin born again mean be that.  — (jw__27313, __no translation__)

    Na today be di betday of naija born sax player, Tejiri Emore wey pipo dey call tj sax.  — (ja102__3524, __no translation__)

14. obl:mod (frequency:3)

    Second born  — (BEN_34_Tale_MG__40, The second child.)

    My mama mother don already learn the truth for Bible for 1908. Dem born me for April 24, 1931. We be four children and na me be second born.  — (jw__10759, __no translation__)

15. conj-obj (frequency:3)

    Ala' dey make women born' pikin and bring big harvests to farms;  — (bbc__8635, __no translation__)

    Born my children, get my own wife, build my own house, drive my own motor.  — (ONI_05_New-Year_M__21, Give birth to my children, get my own wife, build my own house, drive my own car.)

16. conj (frequency:2)

    I be indigene of Plateau State (born, and bred), but I school for Ogun State anyway.  — (JOS_17_Jos-And-Plateau-State_M__4, I am an indigene of Plateau state. Born and bred. But I schooled in Ogun State, anyway.)

    FGM Map of Nigeria Calculation show say like three million girls and women all ova di world na im dey for risk of FGM each year Dem dey always do am for young girls, most times wen dem be small pikin and for di age of 15 Wetin dey ginger FGM well-well na di beliefs about wetin dem think say be proper sexual behaviour, to prepare any girl or woman for adulthood and marriage, and to make sure say dem dey pure Dangers include serious bleeding, problem if dem wan piss, infections, infertility and increase risk if dem wan wan born and death of di newborn pikin .  — (bbc__48215, __no translation__)

17. cc-nsubj (frequency:2)

    I born for house, or wetin, or my mama born,  — (NST_cleaned__8413, __no translation__)

    Jehovah later answer Rachel prayer, and e born.  — (jw__30857, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• marry 0.77 976, circumcise 0.71 41, baptize 0.66 468, bury 0.65 278, die 0.61 4628, breastfeed 0.59 29, pregnant 0.59 105, lost 0.57 159, kidnap 0.57 629

Antonyms

• marry 0.77 976, circumcise 0.71 41, baptize 0.66 468, bury 0.65 278, die 0.61 4628, breastfeed 0.59 29, pregnant 0.59 105, lost 0.57 159, kidnap 0.57 629

Translations

• English: to give birth to