coconut

Naija

Alternative forms

  • ponmo 0.82 14, seeds 0.79 13, perfume 0.79 18, attendant 0.79 10, fertiliser 0.79 7, mineral 0.78 12, bethzatha 0.78 10, waterproof 0.78 6, boiled 0.77 9

Etymology

Borrowed from English coconut

Pronunciation

  • ˈkoʊkəˌnət

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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

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Noun

coconut: no definition -- Definition in Naija?


  1. - (frequency:10)
    coconut peels abi wetin  — (deuber__5402, __no translation__)
    De go find coconut water give me.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__147, They went out to get me some coconut water.)
  2. det (frequency:2)
    So e feel sey dem go value the coconut pass the money wey e for contribute.  — (jw__8759, __no translation__)
    After you don do dat one, na dat water (di coconut water) na im you go take boil di rice. (ABJ_INF_02_Cooking-Recipes_M__14, After you have done that, it's that water  — (the coconut milk) that you will use to boil the rice.)

Related forms

  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.)
  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.)
Make you bring coconut oil for me.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, You should bring coconut oil for me.)
Coconut candle no dey quick burn like ordinary wax.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, They went out to get me some coconut water.)

Synonyms

  • ponmo 0.82 14, seeds 0.79 13, perfume 0.79 18, attendant 0.79 10, fertiliser 0.79 7, mineral 0.78 12, bethzatha 0.78 10, waterproof 0.78 6, boiled 0.77 9

Antonyms

  • ponmo 0.82 14, seeds 0.79 13, perfume 0.79 18, attendant 0.79 10, fertiliser 0.79 7, mineral 0.78 12, bethzatha 0.78 10, waterproof 0.78 6, boiled 0.77 9

Translations

  • English: no definition