dash

Naija

Etymology

From: English dash

Pronunciation

• dâʃ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3338
• Frequency in raw corpus: 90
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2234

Definition

To get person someting free.

Noun

• No be dash.  — (NST_cleaned__25170, It is not free.)
• Authorities nack am charge say im carry dash Grace di degree.  — (bbc__18064, He was accused of falsely awarding the degree to Grace. )

Translations

• English:dash

Verb

1. Mek person give anoder person someting free

   • I dash am money.  — (Egbokhare_2020, I gave him/her money.)
   • Other people dey dash pikin wey no get mama and papa money.  — (jw__30181, People give alms to orphans.)

2. Transitive

   Some of di furniture wey goment buy dash di newly married couples  — (bbc__91194, )

   Sabi pipo bin don do 39 womb transplant, for some dem use live donors including mama wey dash dia daughters dem dia own wombs.  — (bbc__86546, Experts have carried out 39 womb transplants and some of the live donors were mothers who willingly donated their wombs to their daughters.)

3. You go happy well well if person dash you better thing or wetin you really need.  — (jw__38670, __no translation__)

   Military courts inside Cameroon complete paper work late Friday to free some of de 289 prisoners weh President Biya dash presidential pardon.  — (bbc__67209, __no translation__)

4. obj-obl:mod (frequency:2)

   Fidel Castro bin dash Russia Vladimir Shatalov as gift for di 1970s.  — (bbc__33002, __no translation__)

   Di oga vice presido, dey hala dis hala to take react to one money poto-poto allegate, wey one former deputy tok-tok person of APC, Timi Frank, take rob ein bodi say, ein just kalebe some plenty billion of wi naira money from di pocket of di Federal Inland Revenue Service , to take dash pipo, as campaign money, wey ein take buy pipo vote, during di 2019 general election-dem.  — (ja102__2105, __no translation__)

5. aux-conj-nsubj-obj (frequency:2)

   America Attorney General Jeff Sessions wey fire am talk say dem find out say im dey dash vital information and im do investigators dem wuru-wuru.  — (bbc__14693, __no translation__)

   If dat person wake up, come meet me, I go dash you money, but if dat person no wake up, remember sey you need to also come meet me, and dash me money.  — (ENU_28_World-Food-Day_M__59, If that person wakes up, come and meet me. I will give you money. But if that person doesn't wake up, remember that you need to also come and meet me and give me money.)

Synonyms

• donate 0.78 97, offer 0.71 120, offend 0.67 24, sue 0.66 98, owe 0.66 178, sponsor 0.65 106, convince 0.65 43, yab 0.65 176, adopt 0.64 141

Antonyms

• donate 0.78 97, offer 0.71 120, offend 0.67 24, sue 0.66 98, owe 0.66 178, sponsor 0.65 106, convince 0.65 43, yab 0.65 176, adopt 0.64 141

Translations

• English: to give away