shine

Naija

Etymology

From English: shine

Pronunciation

• ʃaɪn

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1162
• Frequency in raw corpus: 328
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 920

Verb

1. 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.)

2. Na when person dey alert.

   • 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__)

1. 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__)

2. 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__)

3. Make person take someting to high

   • No be only igbo dem dey take shine eye o  — (deuber__5360, __no translation__)

4. 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.)

Make person do well for someting.

1. • Headies Awards: Davido, Wizkid and Simi shine  — (bbc__55567, )
   • Na under coach Antonio Conte, na im Moses shine.  — (bbc__72148, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• shine

Translations

• English: shine,