water

Naija

Etymology

From English: water

Pronunciation

• wɔ̀tá

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Noun

• Liquid wey no get smell, taste or color wey dey come from river, sea, rain, wey every living ting dey drink and use do plenty many many tings.

• If you go chop you go need water.  — (If you’ll eat, you’ll need water.)
• Water no dey for dis side. Na people wey get borehole we dey beg make dem give us water.  — (There is no water here. We beg people who have boreholes to give us water.)

Related forms

• holy water, river water, drinking water, pure water, eba water, sapele water.

Translations

• English: water