rice

Naija

Etymology

From: English rice

Pronunciation

• raɪs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 34
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 310
• Frequency in raw corpus: 319
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 937

Noun

Na seed or grain from plant wey de dey boil chop when e don e soft.

1. • A bag of rice is eighteen thousand.  — (WAZK_01_Mose-And-Ubike_DG__33, A bag of rice costs eighteen thousand.)

   Dat rice make sense ehn!  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__17, That rice meal is quite palatable!)

   Rice, and beans, na im de dey buy for market.  — (WAZP_02_Porico_M__100, The demand for rice and beans is high.)

   Dem go soak, steam and dry di complete grain of di rice, den remove di hull to make am parboiled rice.  — (bbc__29223, __no translation__)

Related forms

• Jollof rice

Antonyms

• beans

Translations

• English: rice