rain
Naija
Etymology
From: English rain
Pronunciation
- reɪn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 10
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 746
- Frequency in raw corpus: 399
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 780
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
rain: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:147)
- See rain! — (KAD_15_Money-Wahala_MG__111, Take a look at the rains!)
- Rain want fall. — (jw__30876, __no translation__)
- amod (frequency:48)
- Heavy rain come start to fall. — (jw__17548, __no translation__)
- Na 40 days that heavy rain take fall. — (jw__24975, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:37)
- Di rain don come. — (bbc__88240, __no translation__)
- Di rain fall until we reach Enugu. — (bbc__63438, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:27)
- except dis few days now wey rain... — (NST_cleaned__36443, __no translation__)
- Cotton di depend na for rain for grow. — (bbc__914, __no translation__)
- amod-det (frequency:24)
- The heavy rain fall for 40 days and 40 nights. — (jw__35178, __no translation__)
- Di heavy rain bin cause serious flood for roads: — (bbc__35156, __no translation__)
- amod-conj (frequency:9)
- Hurricane: type of storm wey get plenty-plenty rain plus strong wind. — (bbc__56865, __no translation__)
- Hurricane na type of storm wey get plenty-plenty rain plus strong wind. — (bbc__56862, __no translation__)
- amod-case (frequency:8)
- Di mountain of dirty fall after plenty rain, for Ratoma area, on Tuesday. — (bbc__36342, __no translation__)
- Dem say di thing crash as e dey fly for heavy rain, fall from sky, near Port-Bouët. — (bbc__29590, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:7)
- Like the hot sun and rain. — (jw__22397, __no translation__)
- E still get power to control heavy breeze and rain. — (jw__35722, __no translation__)
- case-det (frequency:5)
- She say despite di rain di plane no sink enta ground. — (bbc__88869, __no translation__)
- Noah serve God well for almost 600 years before the rain. — (jw__39442, __no translation__)
- amod-cc (frequency:3)
- Which kain rain fall for Port Harcourt eh?! — (bbc__99936, __no translation__)
- If you come add other tins like long dry season or too much rain, two tins wey dey affect harvest, na serious mata. — (bbc__15214, __no translation__)
- acl:relcl (frequency:3)
- She say rain wey bin dey fall from April to September now don extend to December. — (bbc__12460, __no translation__)
- Wikimedia Fog weather for southern Nigeria Rain storm - Na rain wey carry strong breeze with thunder and lightning join. — (bbc__100774, __no translation__)
- amod-nmod (frequency:3)
- Heavy rain on Monday fit make mata worse for Nigerians wey flood affect Flood don killi killi 100 pipo for Nigeria and di wahala never finish — (bbc__55640, __no translation__)
- Flood don pursue pipo from Lekki after heavy rain for Lagos Ghana don increase waterside patrol afta boat accident kill 11 Kenya Landslide: 30 families no get house again — (bbc__49365, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:2)
- Na im still be god of sky, rain and thunder. — (jw__11627, __no translation__)
- But Blatter, wey get strong head, say come rain or sunshine, im go show for di World Cup, competition wey im don dey go since im begin work for FIFA since 1975. — (bbc__21258, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Early morning rain dey delay votes for some areas. — (bbc__46292, __no translation__)
- BBC News Pidgin tori pesin for Nigeria capital, Abuja, Dooshima Abu, report say Catholics for dia no care about di early morning rain, dem still come out plenti to do di protest. — (bbc__18365, __no translation__)
- Madam Yakubu add say na rain water fit don cause di accident and nobody die. — (bbc__64748, __no translation__)
- Di doctor talk say make I no go inside rain or use rain water because di rain water get oil. — (bbc__1454, __no translation__)
Synonyms
- heavy 0.82 456, breeze 0.80 150, cold 0.69 151, water 0.69 1456, sun 0.68 220, boat 0.68 280, fall 0.66 961, smell 0.66 97, tanker 0.64 167
Antonyms
- heavy 0.82 456, breeze 0.80 150, cold 0.69 151, water 0.69 1456, sun 0.68 220, boat 0.68 280, fall 0.66 961, smell 0.66 97, tanker 0.64 167
Translations
- English: no definition