woman

Naija

Alternative forms

• girl 0.77 1023, boy 0.75 838, man 0.74 4389, pikin 0.65 5613, doctor 0.63 543, pickin 0.59 840, person 0.58 7008, baby 0.58 257, husband 0.58 1084

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman

Pronunciation

• ˈwʊmən

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 104
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 135
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2335
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 173

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

woman: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:656)

   Woman.  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__173, Woman !)

   woman.  — (deuber__879, __no translation__)

2. det (frequency:633)

   di woman...  — (NST_cleaned__33699, __no translation__)

   di woman sew  — (deuber__4535, __no translation__)

3. cc (frequency:114)

   Inside dem, man and woman dey.  — (jw__26114, __no translation__)

   Wetin fine guy, and fine woman dey do?  — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__124, What do a fine guy and a fine woman do?)

4. case (frequency:87)

   Comot your eye for woman.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__140, Remove your attention from women.)

   Dis na torture for woman.  — (bbc__32240, __no translation__)

5. amod (frequency:85)

   Na woman own.  — (bbc__55830, __no translation__)

   Correct woman,  — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__112, A correct woman !)

6. nmod (frequency:29)

   na Edo woman, and my papa na Katsina man.  — (NST_cleaned__39740, __no translation__)

   Zimbabwe woman want make dem stop bride price  — (bbc__102189, __no translation__)

7. advmod (frequency:18)

   We dey try o, woman dey try, de dey try.  — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__129, We are trying; women are trying; they are tyrying.)

   For deir wife o, come, give deir woman dem.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__42, For their wife. bring and give their woman.)

8. dep-det (frequency:17)

   na just one woman dey contest di position of President with 19 men.  — (bbc__101189, __no translation__)

   No be one woman dey go see how many millions for im house for Osbourne road?  — (NST_cleaned__26028, __no translation__)

9. conj (frequency:14)

   Dem kill di okada man but di woman and her children still dey miss.  — (bbc__28354, __no translation__)

   Hijabi na woman or girl wey dey wear di Islamic head-cover wey dem dey call Hijab.  — (bbc__55948, __no translation__)

10. cc-det (frequency:12)

    The man or the woman fit no get am for mind sey that kind thing go happen.  — (jw__45062, __no translation__)

    ‘I go make you and the woman be enemy and your pikin and im pikin go still be enemy.  — (jw__49047, __no translation__)

11. dep (frequency:8)

    But it's not okay for a woman because na woman she be.  — (NST_cleaned__16131, __no translation__)

    Her nickname na 'Amina, daughter of Nikatau,' wey mean woman wey capable like man.'  — (bbc__94011, __no translation__)

12. amod-cc (frequency:4)

    Wetin fine guy, and fine woman dey do?  — (NST_cleaned__26730, __no translation__)

    ‘Young man and young woman, make dem praise Jehovah.’— PS. 148:12, 13 .  — (jw__49411, __no translation__)

13. cop (frequency:3)

    Na woman,  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__151, She is a woman.)

    Na woman?  — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__110, It is a woman ?)

14. obj (frequency:2)

    When God give dis power back, dominion over everything, woman never comot.  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__187, When God gave this power about dominion over everything, woman was yet to come out.)

    Kardashian West campaign for di freedom of Alice Johnson One 64 year old woman wey dem free from prison afta 19 years, go be model, to sell Kim Kardashian West new line of underwear.  — (bbc__61965, __no translation__)

15. acl-cc (frequency:2)

    E no possible to categorise dis group of pipo as man or woman as dem no be any of di two.  — (bbc__44994, __no translation__)

    South Africa na one of few kontris for Africa wia same-sex relationship follow inside law Botswana High Court don rule say e no be crime anymore for man and man, woman and woman to sleep togeda for di kontri.  — (bbc__91845, __no translation__)

16. cc-nmod (frequency:2)

    Them troway plenty man and woman them instead to bury them.  — (katakata__1065, __no translation__)

    Tings don so hard sotay if man, and woman like each oda, con tell each oda sey we go marry tomorrow o, na only me, you go dey follow o, no follow anoda person o, na lie!  — (NST_cleaned__32351, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• man woman

1. man woman na di same o  — (deuber__914, __no translation__)

   Now me dey talk of, meh me dey talk about respect because one day wey be sey de go fit dey argue for inside house, and di man, di man, di, di, di woman go fit talk sey, go fit talk am sey, e go fit talk like sey, na im be senior for di house.  — (BEN_37_French-President-Marriage_DG__80, Now, I am the one talking of... I am talking about respect because one day when they are having an argument in the house and the man, the man, the, the, the woman will be able to say that, will be able to say that, she will be able to say like, that she is the most senior in the house.)

• woman body

1. Woman body no be firewood, woman body no be block.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__33, A woman's body is not firewood. A woman's body is not a concrete slab.)

   This kind thing no go only make the woman body weak.  — (jw__36969, __no translation__)

• woman dia

1. Dr Ngwana na doctor weh e specialise for woman dia problem  — (bbc__43395, __no translation__)

   Abbassa Mireille oda prisoners receive prize for essay competition Abbassa Mireille win best prize for woman dia category for essay competition for Cameroon prisons, komot best for Mfou prison and na e bi de only woman weh e compete with 69-man pikin for write about peace.  — (bbc__10994, __no translation__)

• woman egg

1. And if the man sperm and the woman egg no meet, the woman no fit get belle.  — (jw__34698, __no translation__)

   Most men dey get reach 15 to 45 million sperm wey dey healthy enough to fertilize di woman egg for her to get belle.  — (bbc__71336, __no translation__)

• woman eye

1. E really clear for the woman eye sey Jehovah answer im prayer.  — (jw__28415, __no translation__)

   Doctors for Taiwan don comot four small sweat bees wey dey live inside one woman eye.  — (bbc__92781, __no translation__)

• woman hand

1. Meh you comot monkey hand for soup o before e turn to woman hand.  — (NST_cleaned__4263, __no translation__)

   If you turn to woman hand, deir own, all of dem na de same thing,  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__22, If you turn to a woman's hand, their own, all of them, it's the same thing.)

• woman leg

1. dem just take di hanky rub di woman leg e just pray  — (deuber__4440, __no translation__)

   Di news paper report say police bin find oga Perrot unconcious for ground with im face inside woman leg wey bin dey unconscious too and almost naked.  — (bbc__36537, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• girl 0.77 1023, boy 0.75 838, man 0.74 4389, pikin 0.65 5613, doctor 0.63 543, pickin 0.59 840, person 0.58 7008, baby 0.58 257, husband 0.58 1084

Antonyms

• girl 0.77 1023, boy 0.75 838, man 0.74 4389, pikin 0.65 5613, doctor 0.63 543, pickin 0.59 840, person 0.58 7008, baby 0.58 257, husband 0.58 1084

Translations

• English: no definition