fada

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Naija

Alternative forms

  • cousin 0.75 39, sista 0.75 39, relative 0.74 20, uncle 0.73 128, mother 0.71 105, twins 0.71 53, wesco 0.71 11, sis 0.70 12, moder 0.70 72

Etymology

Borrowed from English fada

Pronunciation

  • fádà

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 44
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3436

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Noun

fada: father, Reverend father, a gang leader -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Your fada na beta person o.  — no translation
    I go see fada for confession.  — no translation
    Deir fada for aye don talk say make dem kill di boy.  — no translation
  2. - (frequency:13)
    Children dey always wait for Baba Noel - be dia own version of fada Christmas.  — (bbc__25384, __no translation__)
    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 rlation there.)
  3. nmod:poss (frequency:8)
    Deir fada!  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__90, Their Father !)
    So before my fada die, he was a police.  — (ABJ_NOU_05_Patricias-Lifestory_M__4, So, before my father died, he was a police officer.)
  4. det-nmod (frequency:4)
    Three tins you suppose know about Stan Lee, di fada of Marvel  — (bbc__93942, __no translation__)
    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, __no translation__)
  5. det (frequency:3)
    When e die e get 10 months old pikin wey no sabi di fada.  — (bbc__6094, __no translation__)
    Na so all man di craiy say dis fada be na pesin weh e bi good sotei di do e work correct and laik God want'am.  — (bbc__71881, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonymes

  • cousin 0.75 39, sista 0.75 39, relative 0.74 20, uncle 0.73 128, mother 0.71 105, twins 0.71 53, wesco 0.71 11, sis 0.70 12, moder 0.70 72

Antonymes

  • cousin 0.75 39, sista 0.75 39, relative 0.74 20, uncle 0.73 128, mother 0.71 105, twins 0.71 53, wesco 0.71 11, sis 0.70 12, moder 0.70 72

Translations

  • English: father, Reverend father, a gang leader