phone

Naija

Alternative form

• fone

Etymology

From English call

Pronunciation

• kɔ̂

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 208
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 79
• Frequency in raw corpus: 3450
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 111

Noun

• Sey person phone dey ring.

e fit make you loose control //= e fit scatter your mind //= e fit scatter your head // so if you know sey [ you want answer call ] < park |c make you answer di call |c make you continue wit your journey // M_IBA_13_Road-Safety_Complete_N

• Since when im enter our shop, im dey make call till im comot.  — (ENU_08_Strange-Customers_M__39, He was making calls from when he entered our shop till he left.)

1. Phone call

   Phone call  — (bbc__81244, __no translation__)

2. landlord call

   She say she don receive plenti number of messages recently for mobile WeChat, and even miss her landlord call.  — (bbc__89012, __no translation__)

3. BBC call

   Tori for outside na say deh don catch de army pipo dem lock'am for ngata but we nova get lucki for get goment tok-tok person Issa Tchiroma Bakary or Didier Badjeck army tok-tok pesin for answer BBC call.  — (bbc__95434, __no translation__)

4. tin call

   Traditionalist tok say dis kain tin call for sacrifice Wetin Native doctor dey tok on top di mata?  — (bbc__95710, __no translation__)

5. climate change call

   Why Africa must pay attention to climate change Final call to save world from 'climate wahala'  — (bbc__100279, __no translation__)

6. telephone call

   However, if entry is made via text message, MMS or telephone call, your network provider will usually charge according to their standard rate or deduct it from your allowance.  — (ja102__27, __no translation__)

7. ein call

   {{ux|dv|De say, di governor of Lagos state,