top

Naija

Etymology

From English: top

Pronunciation

• tɔp

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 81
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 167
• Frequency in raw corpus: 3171
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 122

Noun

Cloth wey woman/man dey wear ontop trouser or skirt.

• E get some kind top wey I no dey like to dey buy for market.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, There are some certain types of top I prefer not to buy at the market.)
• She don tear my top for di fight.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, She tore my top when we fought.)

Synonyms

• blouse

Translations

• English: Top(clothing)

Adjective

Sey someting dey for place wey dey for up.

• Na that time the top of the water go dey shake.  — (jw__12200, At that time, the top of the water will shake.)
• Na me dey on top.  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__275, I am the one in the leading position.)
• De need better ting, de want enter di top overnight.  — (JOS_05_Buhari-Government_M__67, They need something better; they want to get to the top overnight.)

Translations

• English: top

Verb

Make dem add join put for someting.

• Madam top my soup for me o! e too small.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, Madam, add more to my soup for it is small.)

1. Di guy top my fuel for me.  — ( NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, The man added extra fuel to the fuel I bought.)

Derived forms

• on top

Synonyms

• add, join

Translations

• English: add