fuel

Naija

Alternative forms

• petrol 0.87 166, price 0.77 378, plastic 0.76 164, oil 0.74 879, scarcity 0.74 77, pump 0.72 76, crude 0.71 114, rice 0.70 419, water 0.70 1456

Etymology

Borrowed from English fuel

Pronunciation

• fwɛ̌

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 19
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 478
• Frequency in raw corpus: 302
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 981

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

fuel: petrol -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I dey go buy fuel for generator.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:235)

   We buy fuel.  — (ABJ_GWA_12_Accident_MG__12, We bought fuel.)

   Fuel Scarcity  — (bbc__53246, __no translation__)

3. case (frequency:26)

   A litre of fuel.  — (ONI_23_Things-Don-Cost_DG__14, A litre of fuel.)

   I no fit queue for fuel, come use am dance azonto inside Lagos traffic.  — (bbc__63114, __no translation__)

4. det (frequency:8)

   Di piston beginning to taking di fuel up while di plug gave fire.  — (KAD_12_Mechanic-At-Work_MG__20, The piston starts taking the fuel up while the plug powers it up.)

   E use to give motor fire when di fuel circulate under di top cylinder.  — (KAD_12_Mechanic-At-Work_MG__19, It powers up the car when the fuel circulates under the top cylinder.)

5. conj (frequency:6)

   Fuel, and diesel.  — (WAZK_08_Fuel-Price-Increase_MG__6, Fuel and diesel.)

   E no end dia o, di generator go still need fuel or diesel to give am power.  — (bbc__44940, __no translation__)

6. amod (frequency:5)

   Ehn no be only fuel.  — (NST_cleaned__32939, __no translation__)

   'We don know since say di world no go fit continue to dey born dirty fuel and dis kain thing no go happen, Im talk.  — (bbc__8547, __no translation__)

7. cc (frequency:3)

   Or fuel.  — (KAD_12_Mechanic-At-Work_MG__39, Or fuel.)

   Dem reduce subsidy for bread plus fuel and dis make pipo vex for di east over di living standard.  — (bbc__29429, __no translation__)

8. case-nmod (frequency:3)

   GlobalPetrolPrices.com wey say di average price of fuel around di world na $1.09 per litre.  — (bbc__54295, __no translation__)

   Oga Buhari, also point out say, di domestic consumption of fuel inside di contri, don take style reduce by more dan 30 per cent, since wey de don take close dis border-dem-so.  — (ja102__3702, __no translation__)

9. obj (frequency:2)

   Passengers trap for Port Harcourt airport StopTheSoot palava don scata Port Harcourt light Why fuel scarcity red for Port Harcourt  — (bbc__80567, __no translation__)

   For inside di book wey im call 'My transition hours', oga Jonathan try clear pipo about issues like di Chibok girls kidnapping, fuel subsidy palava and foreign interference inside di 2015 elections.  — (bbc__51757, __no translation__)

10. obl:arg (frequency:2)

    Maikanti Kacalla Baru say fuel boku for everybody.  — (bbc__48495, __no translation__)

    Im con go buy f~, buy fuel for fil~, eh for deir dis ting now, for deir filling station o.  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__255, He now went to buy f... buy fuel at the fil-... eh at their this thing now... at their flling station.)

Synonyms

• petrol 0.87 166, price 0.77 378, plastic 0.76 164, oil 0.74 879, scarcity 0.74 77, pump 0.72 76, crude 0.71 114, rice 0.70 419, water 0.70 1456

Antonyms

• petrol 0.87 166, price 0.77 378, plastic 0.76 164, oil 0.74 879, scarcity 0.74 77, pump 0.72 76, crude 0.71 114, rice 0.70 419, water 0.70 1456

Translations

• English: petrol