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===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== |
Revision as of 16:04, 16 March 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English father.
Pronunciation
- fádà.
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 44
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3436
Noun
Man wey born pikin; reverend father; gang leader.
- Man wey born pikin.
- Your fada na beta person o. — (Egbokhare 2020, Your father is a good person.)
- So I reach dere, I reach my fada community, I see my relation, I see my relation dere. — (ONI_02_I-Like-My-Girlfriend-So-Much_M__52, So, I got there... I got to my father's community and I saw my relation....I saw my relation there.)
- Oga for church (Catholic) wey no marry.
- I go see fada for confession. — (Egbokhare 2020, I will see the reverend father for confession.)
- Oga patapata for gang.
- Deir fada for aye don talk say make dem kill di boy. — (Egbokhare 2020, Their gang leader has talked that they should kill the boy.)
- Person wey kick start or plant someting.
- If you be fan of science fiction movie or movie dem wey get special effects den you need to twale for Méliès, dem call am di fada of special effects. — (bbc__57819, If you are a fan of scientific fiction movie or movies that have special effects , then you will thrill for Melies, they call him the father of special effects.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: father, reverend father, gang leader, founder.