oil

Naija

Etymology

From: English oil

Pronunciation

• ɔ́ ìl

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 52
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 236
• Frequency in raw corpus: 721
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 478

Noun

• Na liguid wey be like grease.

1. • Delta no go fit depend on oil forever  — (bbc__28099. Delta can not depend on oil forever.)
   • Na im make oil common oil eh?  — (NST_cleaned__5955, __no translation__)
   • Di small kontri dey rich on oil and gas exports.  — (bbc__20753, __no translation__)
   • Use oil and moisturiser for your hair and leg join.  — (bbc__97434, __no translation__)

• Na liguid wey be like grease wey dem dey use for anointing.

1. • Annointing oil na im pastors dey pray with, no be groundnut oil.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Pastors pray with anointing oil not groundnut oil.)
   • Okay na annointing oil e go be.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. It must be anointing oil.)
   • As Port Harcourt na oil city, di expectation na say work go boku but di reality dey different.  — (bbc__72436. Though Port Harcourt )
   • Nigeria na oil rich kontri, but e still dey import refine crude oil becos none of di refineries for di kontri dey refine crude oil.  — (bbc__73894, __no translation__)

Related forms

• groundnut oil, palmoil, crudeoil,coconutoil

Translations

• English: lubricant, cooking oil