compound
Naija
Etymology
From: English compound
Pronunciation
- kɔ́mpàùnd
Noun
- House wey person get or rent.
- E dey inside deir compound. — (Egbokhare_2021, He/she is in their personal house.)
- Amaka just pack in come di compound. — (NST_cleaned__38553, Amaka is a new tenant in the building.)
- All of my compound people dem dey buy soap for my hand. — (LAG_37_Soap-Making_MG__69, All the tenants in my building purchase soap from me.)
- 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, I learnt all that in the single-room apartment building I was raised in the Kakuri area of Kaduna.)
- Na di surrounding or space wey remain after de don build house ontop land finish.
- My house and compound dey clean? — (jw__15444, My house and its surroundings are well kept.)
- The gunmen shoot some cars wey dey for EFCC compound. — (bbc__93470, Gunmen riddled some of the cars parked in the premises of EFCC with bullets.)
- 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, The boss made the statement while on inspection of the property within the F.R.C.N. premises in Lagos.)
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Translations
- English: building, compound/premises