naira

Naija

Alternative forms

• dollars 0.82 250, thousand 0.80 479, billion 0.76 486, hundred 0.75 469, fifty 0.75 193, n1 0.71 71, million 0.71 1603, n500 0.71 30, n3 0.70 25

Etymology

Borrowed from English naira

Pronunciation

• ˈnɛrə

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 96
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 143
• Frequency in raw corpus: 639
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 528

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

naira: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. nummod:det (frequency:360)

   Ten naira.  — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__37, ten naira.)

   Fifty naira?  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__6, Fifty naira?)

2. - (frequency:24)

   Naira note mata  — (bbc__72320, __no translation__)

   Dem give am naira.  — (IBA_28_Moshood-And-Hassan_DG__109, they gave him naira.)

3. det-nummod:mod (frequency:20)

   As I go, I wan drop di ten naira,  — (BEN_15b_Theology-Offerings_DG__53, As I got there, I wanted to drop the ten naira note.)

   That hundred naira change my life.  — (WAZK_08_Fuel-Price-Increase_MG__115, That hundred naira changed my life.)

4. case (frequency:19)

   dat jet is worth billions of naira  — (deuber__6408, __no translation__)

   I no dey understand anymore like dollars of naira?  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__98, I don't understand anymore like dollars of naira.)

5. cc-nummod:det (frequency:9)

   small pikin fit carry pure water wey no reach uh fifty naira or thirty naira.  — (deuber__264, __no translation__)

   If you have two hundred naira, or five hundred naira you can make gote for di househood.  — (JOS_12_How-To-Prepare-Gote-Soup_MG__70, If you have two hundred naira, or five hundred naira, you can cook gote for the household.)

6. det (frequency:8)

   While odas dey tink say na time to buy di naira.  — (bbc__100047, __no translation__)

   For 2015, di kontri economy still tough and Buhari no gree devalue di naira.  — (bbc__35307, __no translation__)

7. dep-nummod:det (frequency:7)

   Seventy naira since.  — (ONI_19_Make-We-Share-Di-Country_DG__33, Seventy naira, long ago.)

   E mu nine hundred naira wa.  — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__162, Bring nine hundred naira.)

8. obj (frequency:2)

   years old Savage Trap Queen don dey act blue film since October 2017 and she dey make up to N100,000 naira on top evri film she shoot.  — (bbc__102894, __no translation__)

   Di naira-now, dey sell for N305 naira to one dollar inside di parallel market, to take react to di recent stop-stop, wey wi naija central bank stop to dey sell dollar to bureau de change pipo inside di contri.  — (ja102__3162, __no translation__)

9. case-compound (frequency:2)

   At first, di NCC bin sama dem fine of 1.04 trillion naira - dem charge MTN $1000 per unregistered Sim on top di mata, but later dem come negotiate am down.  — (bbc__17714, __no translation__)

   Tok-tok pesin of CBN Isaac Okoroafor say di new policy go help stop counterfeiting of Nigeria naira and help make evribodi get only clean-clean naira notes.  — (bbc__94578, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• N100 naira

1. you need about 150 to buy wetin N100 naira dey buy last year, and dis one affect food well-well.  — (bbc__59395, __no translation__)

   Anoda pesin talk say di only place where you fit find clean N100 naira na for 'owambe' party and no be lie.  — (bbc__15589, __no translation__)

• naira note

1. One hundred naira note.  — (ONI_16_Thief_DG__165, One hundred naira note.)

   Central Bank add the Jewish sign of Star of David for di hundred naira note but MURIC say na sign of religious fanactism.  — (bbc__24965, __no translation__)

• naira notes

1. Many bad money dey in circulation for Nigeria People dey use torchlight for Nigeria take find small-small naira notes wey get life, and no dey dirty.  — (bbc__65357, __no translation__)

   Central Bank say dem dey ready measures wey dem go use punish banks wey no gree replace doti naira notes and di ones wey give pipo old bad naira notes.  — (bbc__24981, __no translation__)

• naira wage

1. STRINGER Nigeria Labour congress demand for new 56 thousand naira minimum wage drop on Thursday to chicken change, according to wetin BBC Pidgin understand.  — (bbc__86450, __no translation__)

   Akwara believe say dis time around, na operation rescue Delta e dey on now to develop di state pass wetin dey now, say na 60,000 naira minimum wage e go pay workers if im win.  — (bbc__13611, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• dollars 0.82 250, thousand 0.80 479, billion 0.76 486, hundred 0.75 469, fifty 0.75 193, n1 0.71 71, million 0.71 1603, n500 0.71 30, n3 0.70 25

Antonyms

• dollars 0.82 250, thousand 0.80 479, billion 0.76 486, hundred 0.75 469, fifty 0.75 193, n1 0.71 71, million 0.71 1603, n500 0.71 30, n3 0.70 25

Translations

• English: no definition