day

Naija

Etymology

From: English day

Pronunciation

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 135
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 110
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 2645
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 156

Definition

  • Time wey reach 24 hours.

Noun

  1. Time for inside 24 hours when e be sey sun dey shine well-well
    Abeg now wey day dey make we reach house, before night reach.  — (NSC_Emeka_2020, Please, now that it's still daytime, let's get home before night fall)
    My people dey talk sey make de dey start for day dey look for black goat, before night reach.  —  (NSC_Emeka_2020, There is the saying that it's better to start searching for a black goat when it's day, before night fall.)
  2. Period of time wey start for midnight reach anoder midnight
    After dat day, I get mysef.  — (PRT_07_Drummer_MG__107, After that day, I recovered.)
    Airlines dey lose millions per day  — (bbc__13427, Airlines are losing millions per day. )


Derived forms

evriday

    • Wetin dey happen day by day.
    • Evriday, we dey get new tori of house wey di tin don enta.  — (bbc__1858, Everyday, we get new news of houses where the thing has entered.)
    • Evriday our men dey go around dey look for dis kain girls wey no dey hear word and dey roam about.  — (bbc__2731, Everyday our men go round to look for these sort of girls who have refused to obey, and who loiter.)

daytime

    • Time of day wey be sey sun dey shine.
    • E fit be sey na for day time.  — (jw__44169, It may be in the daytime. )
    • We fit pray for daytime or for night.  — (jw__8211, We can pray at daytime or at nighttime.)

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Translations

  • English: day