pikin

Naija

Alternative forms

• pickin 0.77 840, pikini

Etymology

Borrowed from Krio

Pronunciation

• pìkîn

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 115
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 124
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4969
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 80

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

pikin: child -- Person wey be sey na one mile and pile born

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Di gumbody country dem sign sey dem go respect di right of di pikin dem.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:1046)

   Pikin go get…  — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)

   11 born pikin.  — (bbc__86547, __no translation__)

3. det (frequency:729)

   How dat pikin…  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__83, How will that child...)

   di pikin gangan ;  — (hildrights__849, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• children 0.75 1537, blood

Translations

• English: child