Difference between revisions of "almajiri"
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Revision as of 12:57, 29 September 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
- almajiri (virtually everywhere)
Etymology
from:Hausa
Pronunciation
- àmádʒìrí
- àlùmádʒìrí
- àlmádʒìrí
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 28823
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Usage
de dey use am for the north because the practice itself is rampant in the north
Noun
almajiri: Almajiri, which means seeker of Islamic knowledge, is a a system of Islamic Education in Nigeria., street beggers. --
Definition in Naija?
- pesin wey no get anoda lifestyle pass to go islamic school and begs for survival.
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Government build almajiri school. — (The government built a school for the seekers of Islamic knowledge.)
- Almajiri dem dey beg for road. — (The almajiris are begging on the street.)
- politician dem don sabi how to use Almajiri dem to scata election. — (The politicians have perfected the use of almajiris to rig election.)
- why you dey look like Almajiri . — (why are you looking unkept?.)
Antonyms
Alfa, imam, mallam
Translations
- English: Almajiri, which means seeker of Islamic knowledge, it is a system of Islamic Education in Nigeria., street beggars.