coconut

Naija

Etymology

From English coconut

Pronunciation

• ˈkokoˌnͻ̂t

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2338
• Frequency in raw corpus: 14
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 6551

Noun

• Na fruit of coconut palm wey get white flesh and fluid.

1. coconut peels abi wetin  — (deuber__5402, Coconut peel or what.)
2. So e feel sey dem go value the coconut pass the money wey e for contribute.  — (jw__8759, So he felt that they will appreciate the coconut than the money he contributed.)

Related forms

• coconut rice

1. How we dey dey take cook coconut rice.  — (ABJ_INF_02_Cooking-Recipes_M__1, How we cook coconut rice.)
2. After you cover am for like ten minutes, after dat ten minutes, your coconut rice don ready be dat.  — (ABJ_INF_02_Cooking-Recipes_M__40, After you have covered it for almost ten minutes... after those ten minutes, your coconut rice is ready.)

• coconut water

1. De go find coconut water give me.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__147, They went out to get me some coconut water.)
2. As de find coconut water give me, naim I drink am.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__148, As soon as they got me the coconut water, I drank it.)

• coconut oil

Make you bring coconut oil for me.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, You should bring coconut oil for me.)

• coconut candle

Coconut candle dey sweet sha.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, Coconut candy is really sweet.)

Translations

• English: a fruit of the coconut palm having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.