naija
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or from Nigeria.
name
An English-based creole of Nigeria, combining vocabulary and grammar from the English language as well as various indigenous Nigerian languages and remnants of Portuguese.
Example Sentences
- "‘If you come [...] you will meet a lot of Naija people there.’"
- "We stopped at the mudhif of an important Sayid, and even a spectacled white-turbaned priest from Naija treated us with courtesy, and did not, as did most of those whom we met later, leave the building as soon as we had entered it."
- "There were obituaries, poems, hastily scratched out but very heartfelt dirges, and a unity that I have never before seen in Naija: a unity that, although it technically lasted about a week, still has lingering effects to the present day."
- "But, it is correct to say most of our leaders in Naija are not leaders but looters."
- "He remembered that the process of clearing immigration and locating your luggage in Murtala Muhammad Airport was no small feat for a first time visitor to Naija."
Etymology
Borrowed from Nigerian Pidgin Naijá.
Usage
Inflected Forms
9ja (alternative, slang)
Naij (alternative, Multicultural London English)
Naijas (plural)
Naijá (alternative)