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.)

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

   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.)

Derived forms

• born again

Synonyms

• birth

Antonyms

• die 0.61 4628, payin

Translations

• English: to give birth to