man

Naija

Alternative forms

• woman 0.74 2792, boy 0.70 838, person 0.60 7008, guy 0.60 746, girl 0.60 1023, men 0.57 1472, soldier 0.55 345, jesus 0.52 6074, anybody 0.50 695

Etymology

etymology:English 'man'.

Pronunciation

• mán

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 211
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 78
• Frequency in raw corpus: 3582
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 105

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

man: one -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Anyhow e be, man must live.  — no translation

2. det (frequency:1040)

   dis man.  — (deuber__3060, __no translation__)

   Dat man…  — (IBA_28_Moshood-And-Hassan_DG__68, That man,)

3. - (frequency:612)

   Man Tee…  — (WAZL_09_Talk-Show-Catman_DG__40, Ma... look.)

   Man what,  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__210, Man what ?)

4. amod (frequency:185)

   Sure man,  — (ENU_20_Relationship-With-Women_DG__198, Proper guy.)

   Correct man!  — (JOS_41_Buying-Drinks_DG__71, Correct man !)

5. case (frequency:105)

   Go work like man.”  — (katakata__1140, __no translation__)

   Truth to man, and God!  — (NST_cleaned__3984, __no translation__)

6. conj (frequency:86)

   Na man to man now.  — (NST_cleaned__9554, __no translation__)

   Dem say man, woman.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__9, They said a man and a woman)

7. advmod (frequency:76)

   Na jolyjoly man.  — (katakata__306, __no translation__)

   All man, na hustle o,  — (IBA_37_Buhari-Returns_DG__51, All men hustle o.)

8. nmod (frequency:52)

   Man In The Middle  — (bbc__65153, __no translation__)

   Okada man dey call me Orobo  — (bbc__5564, __no translation__)

9. dep-det (frequency:37)

   Do you know it's a man…  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__165, Do you know, it's a man...)

   Di man get problem be dat.  — (ABJ_INF_06_Marriage-Counselling_DG__136, That is the man has a problem.)

10. dep (frequency:16)

    I be man like you.  — (jw__43777, __no translation__)

    look am now na man im be.  — (bbc__15585, __no translation__)

11. cc (frequency:13)

    Like man, and man, abi woman, and man, abi man, and woman?  — (NST_cleaned__31606, __no translation__)

    Palava no go dey if woman wey visit di kontri no carry her husband or man follow body.  — (bbc__80368, __no translation__)

12. cc-det (frequency:9)

    me, and di man dey...  — (NST_cleaned__40380, __no translation__)

    Me, and di man dey work.  — (ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__112, The guy and I were working.)

13. appos (frequency:3)

    Man U, Arsenal, dis, all of dem, rubbish,  — (NST_cleaned__20679, __no translation__)

    You go see, con see sey when man, husband dey come back from, from work.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__68, You will see... now see that when a man, husband is returning from work)

14. amod-cc (frequency:3)

    Also, remember say marriage na religious duty so big man or small man suppose uphold am.  — (bbc__335, __no translation__)

    Weda na big man or small man, di deadly chemical wey dey come from di smoke and pipo dey inhale am na major cause of death.  — (bbc__98418, __no translation__)

15. cc-conj (frequency:3)

    Wen dem born intersex pipo, dem bin dey get both man and woman private part.  — (bbc__98697, __no translation__)

    Musbahu go like if pipo dey see am as man even though im get both man and woman private part  — (bbc__69167, __no translation__)

16. nummod (frequency:2)

    We miss wuna.’” Olinda talk say: “Some bus drivers de greet us from their bus and some shout say: ‘Wuna well done!’ They even ask us for magazines.” The one wey e surprise this husband and wife be say, one man come meet them and give them flowers.  — (jw__31992, __no translation__)

    Paris, 9 August 2017: One man jam group of soldiers with BMW. Im injure six people London, 19 June 2017: One man die for van attack on Muslims outside one mosque for Finsbury Park London, 3 June 2017: Eight people die when three jihadists drive van go jam people wey dey waka for London Bridge and those wey dey waka pass Stockholm, Sweden, 7 April 2017: Rakhmat Akilov from Uzbekistan kill five people when im drive lorry for shopping area London, 22 March 2017: Four people die when one car jam people wey dey waka for Westminster Bridge, and the driver come stab one policeman to death Berlin, Germany, 19 December 2016: Tunisia man Anis Amri carry truck jam people for Christmas market for Breitscheidplatz.  — (bbc__80476, __no translation__)

Derived forms

jew man

Synonyms

• woman 0.74 2792, boy 0.70 838, person 0.60 7008, guy 0.60 746, girl 0.60 1023, men 0.57 1472, soldier 0.55 345, jesus 0.52 6074, anybody 0.50 695

Antonyms

• woman 0.74 2792, boy 0.70 838, person 0.60 7008, guy 0.60 746, girl 0.60 1023, men 0.57 1472, soldier 0.55 345, jesus 0.52 6074, anybody 0.50 695

Translations

• English: one