almajiri

Naija

Alternative forms

• alumajiri, amajiri

Etymology

From: Hausa almajiri, 'pupil'. Cf Arabic al-muhājir.

Pronunciation

• àmádʒìrí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 28823

Usage

De dey use am for North.

Noun

Person wey be sey e dey go Islamic school wey be sey e dey beg join am.

• Government build almajiri school.  — (The government built a Koranic school. EGBOKHARE 2020)

• Almajiri dem dey beg for road.  — (The Koranic school pupils are begging on the street. EGBOKHARE 2020)

• Politician dem don sabi how to use almajiri dem to scata election.  — (The politicians have perfected the use of Koranic school pupils to rig election. EGBOKHARE 2020)

Related forms

• alfa, imam, mallam

Translations

• English: Koranic school pupil.