friend

Naija

Etymology

From: English friend

Pronunciation

• frɛ̂nd

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 354
• Frequency in raw corpus: 971
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 377

Noun

1. • Na person wey no be family but wey close well well to person.

   • Na my best friend snatch my boyfriend.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. My best friend snatched my boyfriend.)
   • Na my uncle friend.  — (NST_cleaned__2338. He is my uncle's friend.)
   • E hard to see better friend.  — (jw__7296. It's difficult to find a true friend.)
   • Na di advice wey I fit give you as friend be dat o.  — (LAG_09_Country-Wahala_DG__117, That's the advice I can give to you as a friend.)
   • You know dat kind time wey you dey friend woman, wey you go go stand under rain,  — (WAZK_11_Chiagozies-Life-Story_M__36, You know that time when you are befriending a woman, when you will go and stand in the rain.)

   • Na when boy and girl dey date each other.

   • Me and john dey friend each other.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. John and I are dating.)
   • Any lecturer wey government hear say dey friend student go lose im job.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Any lecturer found guilty of having an affair with their students will loose im job.)

   Di men go dey one wey be sey as e dey friend di woman, e dey go di house everyday,  — (WAZK_11_Chiagozies-Life-Story_M__35, The men will be the ones that as he is befriending this woman, he is going to the house everyday.)

   Slap girl friend.  — (KAN_02_Girls-Life-In-Kano_DG__169, Slap girl friend.)

Related forms

• boyfriend, girlfriend

Synonyms

• paddyman

Antonyms

• enemy

Translations

• English: buddy, friend

Verb

friend: befriend -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I tell you now o sey Ochuko dey friend Ada .  — no translation

Synonyms

• friends 0.73 457, broder 0.66 138, boyfriend 0.64 89, wife 0.64 1474, broda 0.64 165, neighbour 0.63 85, husband 0.63 1084, daughter 0.63 274, partner 0.61 160

Antonyms

• friends 0.73 457, broder 0.66 138, boyfriend 0.64 89, wife 0.64 1474, broda 0.64 165, neighbour 0.63 85, husband 0.63 1084, daughter 0.63 274, partner 0.61 160

Translations

• English: befriend