rain

Naija

Etymology

From: English rain

Pronunciation

• reɪn

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 10
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 746
• Frequency in raw corpus: 399
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 780

Noun

1. Water wey de comot for sky

   • Heavy rain come start to fall.  — (jw__17548, __no translation__)
   • Di rain fall until we reach Enugu.  — (bbc__63438, )

2. Money or person salary

   • Month don end and rain never begin fall, I tire for this company.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2021, It is the end of the month and we have not been paid salaries; I am fed up with this company.)

Related forms

• rain water

Translations

• English: rain, salary