grab
Naija
Alternative forms
- toast 0.77 20, ration 0.70 6, disappoint 0.70 31, twist 0.70 21, hug 0.70 24, admire 0.70 7, bathe 0.69 8, concentrate 0.69 26, stir 0.69 20
Etymology
Borrowed from English grab
Pronunciation
- grâb
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1599
- Frequency in raw corpus: 46
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3320
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adjective
grab: to have macho features -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Di my broda grab o. — no translation
Derived forms
Synonymes
- toast 0.77 20, ration 0.70 6, disappoint 0.70 31, twist 0.70 21, hug 0.70 24, admire 0.70 7, bathe 0.69 8, concentrate 0.69 26, stir 0.69 20
Antonymes
- toast 0.77 20, ration 0.70 6, disappoint 0.70 31, twist 0.70 21, hug 0.70 24, admire 0.70 7, bathe 0.69 8, concentrate 0.69 26, stir 0.69 20
Translations
- English: to have macho features
Verb
grab: understand -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Shey you grab wetin I dey talk? — no translation
- obj (frequency:6)
- Grab sobolo den pop corn make we go! — (bbc__101885, __no translation__)
- Dem dey call dose kind women grab someting women. — (IBA_03_Womanisers_MG__115, They call women like that 'grab something women'.)
- mark-obj (frequency:3)
- Her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings na one of di many wey she write wey grab people attention. — (bbc__55732, __no translation__)
- tell pikin if e don reach to grab wetin de dey tell am sey wetin de don do wey concern am as dis section take talk and why de do wetin de do ; — (hildrights__758, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- toast 0.77 20, ration 0.70 6, disappoint 0.70 31, twist 0.70 21, hug 0.70 24, admire 0.70 7, bathe 0.69 8, concentrate 0.69 26, stir 0.69 20
Antonymes
- toast 0.77 20, ration 0.70 6, disappoint 0.70 31, twist 0.70 21, hug 0.70 24, admire 0.70 7, bathe 0.69 8, concentrate 0.69 26, stir 0.69 20
Translations
- English: understand