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, It started raining heavily.)
    • Di rain fall until we reach Enugu.  — (bbc__63438, It was raining until we got to Enugu.)
  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.)

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Translations

  • English: rain, salary