bush

Naija

Alternative forms

• forest 0.77 138, bullet 0.75 98, tree 0.71 221, grass 0.70 139, cow 0.70 167, animal 0.68 377, coffin 0.68 38, grave 0.67 109, bus 0.67 261

Etymology

Borrowed from English bush

Pronunciation

• búʃ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 14
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 587
• Frequency in raw corpus: 206
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1299

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

bush: bush, forest -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   No dey enta Ogida bush, snake full there o.  — (Don't go into the bush, there are a lot of snakes there.)

2. - (frequency:90)

   We go follow bush.  — (IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__45, We cut through the bush.)

   We dey even follow bush.  — (IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__43, We go through the bush.)

3. case (frequency:67)

   Deir head dey for bush.  — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__114, Their head is in the bush.)

   Inside bush, na im we dey.  — (ONI_05_New-Year_M__73, inside bush is where we are.)

4. case-det (frequency:5)

   into di bush.  — (NST_cleaned__39187, __no translation__)

   E get di people wey dey go far, far inso-... into di bush.  — (IBA_02_Igwe-Festival_MG__31, There are some people who go far, far inso... into the bush.)

5. case-dep (frequency:4)

   How kidnappers kill Nigeria Police officers inside bush President Buhari no dey fit sleep  — (bbc__56518, __no translation__)

   The woman wey dey for her 20's don dey married to her husband for five years, but na for inside bush she dey poopoo.  — (bbc__93546, __no translation__)

6. amod-case (frequency:4)

   ''Di pick-up continue dey drive enta inside deep deep bush.  — (bbc__8279, __no translation__)

   “For example, as you dey waka for inside thick bush, you come see one house wey fine well well.  — (jw__49609, __no translation__)

7. case-nmod (frequency:3)

   Mr Abeh talk say dem dump di Americans and Canadians for bush by 6 am on Saturday.  — (bbc__68066, __no translation__)

   With her umbilical cord wey still dey her body, India possibly dey just few hours old wen pipo for area find her for bush for Forsyth County, north of Atlanta.  — (bbc__101026, __no translation__)

8. det (frequency:2)

   E see bush wey fire dey, but the bush no dey burn.  — (jw__24605, __no translation__)

   Martin Kyere run enta bush for night as soldiers wan kill am  — (bbc__65857, __no translation__)

9. acl:relcl (frequency:2)

   E see bush wey fire dey, but the bush no dey burn.  — (jw__24605, __no translation__)

   E don turn tradition for villages for Anglophone regions dem for run go bush wen deh hear say BIR di kam.  — (bbc__44400, __no translation__)

10. advmod:emph (frequency:2)

    We no fit see bush o,  — (LAG_05_Government-Dey-Try_M__68, We cannot see bush.)

    Di man also tok say di group dey carri young young pikin dem enta bush wia dem dey teach dem different tins and as dem dey return, dem go give dem free motorcycle.  — (bbc__35873, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• forest 0.77 138, bullet 0.75 98, tree 0.71 221, grass 0.70 139, cow 0.70 167, animal 0.68 377, coffin 0.68 38, grave 0.67 109, bus 0.67 261

Antonyms

• forest 0.77 138, bullet 0.75 98, tree 0.71 221, grass 0.70 139, cow 0.70 167, animal 0.68 377, coffin 0.68 38, grave 0.67 109, bus 0.67 261

Translations

• English: bush, forest

Verb

bush: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:2)

   All, all dose people sef, dem be bush people o.  — (NST_cleaned__42517, __no translation__)

   Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River dey for South-Southern region for Nigeria wey get plenty rain forest where dis bush animals like squirrel, rat and monkey dey plenty pass.  — (bbc__19292, __no translation__)

2. aux-mark (frequency:2)

   Na once Nebuchadnezzar start to dey craze, e come be like animal wey dey bush.  — (jw__25802, __no translation__)

   Di reason why we choose to go see am na say we don see di work of di ministry of women affairs, di federal goment and many oda people, and till dis time, no news about di girls wey dey bush, na so Yana Galang, one of di 12 parents wey go visit SCOAN and wey im daughter Rifkatu still dey captivity tok.  — (bbc__1774, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• forest 0.77 138, bullet 0.75 98, tree 0.71 221, grass 0.70 139, cow 0.70 167, animal 0.68 377, coffin 0.68 38, grave 0.67 109, bus 0.67 261

Antonyms

• forest 0.77 138, bullet 0.75 98, tree 0.71 221, grass 0.70 139, cow 0.70 167, animal 0.68 377, coffin 0.68 38, grave 0.67 109, bus 0.67 261

Translations

• English: no definition