compound

Naija

Alternative forms

• room 0.78 356, shop 0.76 264, hotel 0.72 336, neck 0.70 111, hut 0.69 31, kitchen 0.69 64, car 0.68 462, fence 0.67 74, door 0.66 242

Etymology

Borrowed from English compound

Pronunciation

• kɔ́mpàùnd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 8
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 863
• Frequency in raw corpus: 108
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1983

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

compound: family house -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E dey inside deir compound.  — (He/she is in their family house.)

2. case-det (frequency:22)

   con dey even watch from anoder compound.  — (NST_cleaned__38567, __no translation__)

   Sey im go show everybody for dis compound.  — (ABJ_INF_09a_Children-Story_M__48, he would show everyone in the compound what he was capable of doing.)

3. det (frequency:12)

   Dat compound dey very good.  — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__32, That compound is nice.)

   Amaka just pack in come di compound.  — (NST_cleaned__38553, __no translation__)

4. nmod:poss (frequency:7)

   Im compound big well well.  — (katakata__512, __no translation__)

   Naim de dey tell me sey even de come our compound.  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__206, They even told me that they came to our compound.)

5. - (frequency:4)

   All of my compound people dem dey buy soap for my hand.  — (LAG_37_Soap-Making_MG__69, All the people in my compound buy soap from me.)

   Even if your house, di place wey you dey live, na you get di compound,  — (WAZP_02_Porico_M__79, Even. if your house, the place that you are living, it is you that owns the compound.)

6. cc (frequency:3)

   My house and compound dey clean?  — (jw__15444, __no translation__)

   Bolarinwa also come advise everybody wey dey stay for di area say make dem always dey keep deir area and compound clean.  — (deuber__6263, __no translation__)

7. case (frequency:3)

   See shout everywhere for compound!  — (ENU_09_Angry-Neighbours_MG__31, You could hear them shouting everywhere in the compound!)

   Na two girls wey dey stay for compound mstchew.  — (ENU_09_Angry-Neighbours_MG__12, There were these two girls staying in the compound, mstchew!)

8. case-nmod (frequency:3)

   The gunmen shoot some cars wey dey for EFCC compound.  — (bbc__93470, __no translation__)

   Di oga talk dis word o by di time wey im carry waka come look di working property wey dey for F.R.C.N. compound for Lagos here.  — (deuber__1774, __no translation__)

9. nmod (frequency:2)

   tori be say e vanish when di Nigeria military raid im family compound for Abia state, some months back.  — (bbc__75328, __no translation__)

   Now, and na for where I grow up for face me, I slap you compound for Kaduna for Kakuri Kaduna, na dere I from learn all of dem.  — (NST_cleaned__14226, __no translation__)

10. det-nmod (frequency:2)

    As IPOB dey talk, brother of di leader of Nnamdi Kanu say Army enter dia compound for Umuahia and kill up to 22 people for there.  — (bbc__64228, __no translation__)

    Di Hawks, di name of South Africa crime unit, confirm say dem dey search di compound of Gupta dem near Johannesburg zoo on Wednesday morning.  — (bbc__31467, __no translation__)

11. compound-det (frequency:2)

    Meshack Jaja Pipo wey full di court compound on Friday  — (bbc__66979, __no translation__)

    ALEXIS HUGUET Na since May dis year Moslem refugees don dey come di church compound for Bangassou  — (bbc__10745, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• room 0.78 356, shop 0.76 264, hotel 0.72 336, neck 0.70 111, hut 0.69 31, kitchen 0.69 64, car 0.68 462, fence 0.67 74, door 0.66 242

Antonyms

• room 0.78 356, shop 0.76 264, hotel 0.72 336, neck 0.70 111, hut 0.69 31, kitchen 0.69 64, car 0.68 462, fence 0.67 74, door 0.66 242

Translations

• English: family house