dust

Naija

Alternative forms

• dost

Etymology

From: English dust

Pronunciation

• dɔ̂st

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 959
• Frequency in raw corpus: 47
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3268

Definition

sand sand

Noun

• Sand sand

1. Na dust, na im dem form us from.  — (NST_cleaned__39721, It is dust from that we were formed from.)

   Dust cover the suit wey dem wear.  — (jw__40073, Dust covered the suit they wore.)

2. matter wey de cause trouble

   Dis decision don raise plenti dust.  — (bbc__100880, This decision has raised a lot of issues.)

Related forms

yarn dust

Synonyms

Sand

Translations

English: dust

Verb

Sey person sabi run fiam pass another person

1. • Musa dust am for di race.  — (Egbokhare, Musa won her with a wide margin in the race.)
   • Ben Johnson go fit dust Usain Bolt if deir two challenge?  — (NSC__Odirin 2020, Can Ben Johnson run faster than Usain Bolt if both of them are allowed to challenge each other?)

Synonyms

run

Translations

English: to beat in a competition with a wide margin