shine
Naija
Etymology
From English: shine
Pronunciation
- ʃaɪn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1162
- Frequency in raw corpus: 328
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 920
Verb
- Make person dey open someting.
- I just see as you just dey smile, dey shine teeth. — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__11, I can see as you are smiling and shinning your teeth.)
- Dis town, na shine your eyes town o, — (NST_cleaned__6082, __no translation__)
- Dis mean say doctors suppose shine their eyes as dem dey treat people with Africa blood. — (bbc__40907, __no translation__)
- Make someting dey bling bling.
- Everywhere go dey shine. — (IBA_02_Igwe-Festival_MG__26, It'll be spotless everywhere.)
- Light from God dey shine. — (jw__22231, __no translation__)
- You come see something wey be like small stone wey dey shine. — (jw__36808, __no translation__)
- Make person blow.
- But time don reach make di Super Eagles follow dia jersey shine for football field. — (bbc__23562, __no translation__)
- Anoda player wey shine na Christian Pulisic for im first competitive start for Chelsea. — (bbc__15602, __no translation__)
- Make person take someting to high
- No be only igbo dem dey take shine eye o — (deuber__5360, __no translation__)
- Make dey see say person dey happy from face.
- E dey make you dey shine. — (JOS_01_People-Of-Plateau_MG__20, It makes you shine.)
- So that nothing go chance God Kingdom for our life, e good make we continue to shine our eye. — (jw__3851, __no translation__)
Make person do well for someting.
- Headies Awards: Davido, Wizkid and Simi shine — (bbc__55567, __no translation__)
- Na under coach Antonio Conte, na im Moses shine. — (bbc__72148, __no translation__)
- When sun shine, e shine for deir head. — (PRT_10_Market_DG__44, When the sun shines, it shines on their head.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- chook 0.62 704, open 0.60 1438, put 0.59 4593, chuk 0.58 33, wash 0.58 250, clean 0.58 607, shook 0.57 80, shake 0.57 366, pour 0.57 199
Translations
- English: shine,