firewood

Naija

Alternative forms

• nylon 0.79 39, leaf 0.78 102, corn 0.78 42, leaves 0.78 26, honey 0.77 28, wood 0.76 72, tyres 0.76 23, cocoyam 0.76 22, bucket 0.75 26

Etymology

Borrowed from English firewood

Pronunciation

• fàjàwûd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1797
• Frequency in raw corpus: 33
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4059

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

firewood: fuel wood -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I dey go farm go fetch fire-wood.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:16)

   body no be firewood;  — (bbc__9276, __no translation__)

   Dem go find firewood, go for bush,  — (LAG_05_Government-Dey-Try_M__66, They will find firewood, go to the bush.)

3. case (frequency:5)

   make dem no because of firewood, continue to dey lose trees.  — (bbc__97445, __no translation__)

   Ezinma go out bring some stick from the big bundle of firewood.  — (katakata__218, __no translation__)

4. det (frequency:2)

   Abi make I tie di firewood with wrapper for my back because one big woman from G.R.A. don come live for Endurance Villa for Promise Road.  — (deuber__2776, __no translation__)

   Na wetin come be my palaver for dat one now?Di thing be say, after I don clean am finish, na you dey go take your firewood for di kitchen and na di dirty dey make am be like say I no dey sweep my turn.So wetin you come wan make I do?Make you find way make you no let dirty from your firewood mess di place after I don clean am.Oho, you wan make I take di firewood comot from kitchen, abi?  — (deuber__2773, __no translation__)

5. nmod:poss (frequency:2)

   As soon as all dose Shell and NNPC start to enter Nigeria, all dose people carry deir machine put inside packing room, carry deir firewood put di oda side, go find white collar job.  — (WAZP_04_Ponzi-Scheme_MG__71, As soon as Shell and NNPC started opening up in Nigeria, all those people dumped their machines in a room, packed their firewood to the side, and they went in search of white collar jobs.)

   Na wetin come be my palaver for dat one now?Di thing be say, after I don clean am finish, na you dey go take your firewood for di kitchen and na di dirty dey make am be like say I no dey sweep my turn.So wetin you come wan make I do?Make you find way make you no let dirty from your firewood mess di place after I don clean am.Oho, you wan make I take di firewood comot from kitchen, abi?  — (deuber__2773, __no translation__)

6. acl:relcl (frequency:2)

   If they no fit dig yam, them go dey gater firewood wey them go use roast yam wey them go eat for farm.  — (katakata__42, __no translation__)

   Since dat time wey firewood wey you gader for rainy season, wey you suppose to use for dry season, na for dry season na im you go start, for rainy season, na im you wan go gader firewood?  — (deuber__1697, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• nylon 0.79 39, leaf 0.78 102, corn 0.78 42, leaves 0.78 26, honey 0.77 28, wood 0.76 72, tyres 0.76 23, cocoyam 0.76 22, bucket 0.75 26

Antonyms

• nylon 0.79 39, leaf 0.78 102, corn 0.78 42, leaves 0.78 26, honey 0.77 28, wood 0.76 72, tyres 0.76 23, cocoyam 0.76 22, bucket 0.75 26

Translations

• English: fuel wood