tin

Naija

Etymology

From English: tin

Pronunciation

• tɪ̂n

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 66
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 194
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1423
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 269

Noun

1. Someting wey get name wey person no wan give name or no fit give name.

   • Forget dat tin!  — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__297, Forget about that thing.)
   • Na di normal tin.  — (bbc__87128, That is a norm.)
   • Anoda tin you fit do na stand your ground.  — (bbc__15668, Another thing you could do is to stand your ground.)

2. Container wey someting de dey inside.

   • She say she prefer baby milk from tin as dat one dey safer.  — (bbc__15550, She said she preferred breast milk in comparison to baby formula for it is safer.)
   • See tin tomato now.  — (deuber__1340, Look at canned tomatoes.)

Translations

• English: tin, thing