gap

Naija

Etymology

From: English gap

Pronunciation

• gâp

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 63
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2764

Noun

Na space wey dey anywhere or for someting.

• Ahmed say child spacing, wey be gap of 2-3 year between one belle to di next one for woman na di way forward.  — (bbc__13381, Ahmed explained that child spacing, allowing a 2-3 year gap between pregnancy, is advisable.)
• E no dey possible for dis current Angola say MPLA win for all provinces with dat kain gap.  — (bbc__2496, It is not feasible that in the current Angola the MPLA would win with such a wide margin in every province.)

Translations

• English: gap

Verb

• I gap Musa for di exam.  — Egbokhare_2021, I performed better than Musa in the exam.
• People wey fit gap Usain Bolt for 100 x 100 no many at all.  — NSC_Abonyi_2021, Just few could beat Usain Bolt in a sprint.

Synonyms

• pass

Translations

• English: to beat with a wide margin