fruit

Naija

Alternative forms

• meat 0.81 329, beans 0.79 97, fish 0.78 323, bread 0.76 205, chicken 0.75 87, sugar 0.75 158, grass 0.74 139, tree 0.74 221, wine 0.74 141

Etymology

etymology:English 'fruit'.

Pronunciation

• frût

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 15
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 571
• Frequency in raw corpus: 141
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1663

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

fruit: Indian almond -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   We dey go dey pick fruit for school.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:43)

   We get fruit.  — (JOS_20_Beauty-Of-Jos_MG__18, We have fruit.)

   Ehn di fruit salad too dey.  — (KAD_19_Kabiru-Gymnasium_DG__149, Ehn, the fruit salad is also available.)

3. det (frequency:25)

   Eve look di fruit like dis.  — (IBA_31_Lens-Sermon_MG__35, Eve looked at the fruit, like this.)

   You fit you fit come dis Jos buy di fruit.  — (JOS_20_Beauty-Of-Jos_MG__24, You can... you can come to Jos to buy the fruit.)

4. amod (frequency:15)

   E get plenty fruit for dis state.  — (JOS_20_Beauty-Of-Jos_MG__16, There are lots of fruit in this state.)

   Wey get fine fruit when im season don reach.  — (jw__43512, __no translation__)

5. acl:relcl (frequency:6)

   ‘The fruit wey the spirit dey bear na self-control.’​— GAL. 5:22, 23 .  — (jw__49346, __no translation__)

   How e take happen, “e no know.” Dem grow by theirself and produce fruit wey e fit harvest.  — (jw__11546, __no translation__)

6. compound-det (frequency:4)

   I go con cook di palm fruit.  — (NST_cleaned__35678, __no translation__)

   So once di palm fruit cook well-well, I go boil am.  — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__59, So once the palm fruits are well cooked, I'll boil it.)

7. conj (frequency:3)

   Vitamin C dey very important to help person around dis time, so na to dey chop fruit and vegetable.  — (bbc__54266, __no translation__)

   Na charcoal or wood dem dey use take burn di wet mixture of di tobacco, fruit or sugar to come out as smoke.  — (bbc__89434, __no translation__)

8. case (frequency:3)

   Jehovah come talk sey: ‘I go make grass, plant, and tree.’ So different different kind of fruit, vegetable and flower come start to dey grow.  — (jw__17979, __no translation__)

   Shisha smoking na way wey some pipo dey take smoke tobacco, sometimes dem dey mix am with fruit or molasses sugar, through bowl and hose or tube.  — (bbc__89438, __no translation__)

9. conj-det (frequency:3)

   For the farm, we dey arrange the fruit and vegetable dem put for container.  — (jw__12220, __no translation__)

   E dey tell us how to prepare the fruit and vegetable before we put am inside container.  — (jw__12223, __no translation__)

10. case-conj (frequency:3)

    Dis na things like fruit and vegetable.  — (bbc__41731, __no translation__)

    Shisha aka hookah na tobacco wey dem mix with fruit or sugar inside bowl or tube.  — (bbc__89432, __no translation__)

11. dep-det (frequency:2)

    So, the fruit wey we de produce no be new disciples, but na new seed.  — (jw__37106, __no translation__)

    Jesus talk sey: “Either una make the tree and im fruit fine or una make the tree and im fruit rotten, because na the fruit dem take dey know the tree.”— Matthew 12:33 .  — (jw__35819, __no translation__)

12. det-nmod (frequency:2)

    When time reach to put the fruit dem for container, other sisters dey come join us work.  — (jw__12224, __no translation__)

    Senators on Wednesday agree say di land border closing don epp local manufacturers dem to enjoy di fruit of dia labour and even reduce security challenge for di kontri.  — (bbc__87848, __no translation__)

13. case-det (frequency:2)

    E come chop from the fruit and still give Adam.  — (jw__27947, __no translation__)

    But God don talk about the fruit for the tree wey dey center of the garden sey: Make una no chop am, no, make una no touch am, if una chop am, una go die.’​— Genesis 3:1-3 .  — (jw__34764, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• meat 0.81 329, beans 0.79 97, fish 0.78 323, bread 0.76 205, chicken 0.75 87, sugar 0.75 158, grass 0.74 139, tree 0.74 221, wine 0.74 141

Antonyms

• meat 0.81 329, beans 0.79 97, fish 0.78 323, bread 0.76 205, chicken 0.75 87, sugar 0.75 158, grass 0.74 139, tree 0.74 221, wine 0.74 141

Translations

• English: Indian almond