cook

Naija

Etymology

From English: cook

Pronunciation

• kûk

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Verb

1. Make person prepare food.

   • You sabi cook?  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__32, Do you know how to cook?)
   • Make e say e dey teach my wife how to cook?  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__67, So that she will say she is teaching my wife how to cook?)
   • You know how de take dey cook di soup?  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__54, Do you know how the soup is prepared?)
   • When dem come back, na di woman go cook.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__25. When they come back home, it's the woman who will cook.)

2. Make person do juju make e strong.

   • Dem don cook de moto park chairman done, gun no fit enter im body.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021, The park chairman has been fortified with charms and no bullet can enter his body.)
   • I wan go cook myself for baba place first before I enter politics for dis country.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020, I want to get the herbalist to fortify me first before I go into politics in this country.)

Translations

• English: cook, fortify

Noun

• Na person wey dey prepare food.

• Make una no turn me to una cook for dis house.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I will not become a cook for anybody in this house.)
• All di levels wey I get na because na me be di cook for governor.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The fact that I am the governor's cook has granted me privileges)
• She do cook, waitress, sex-worker, dancer, actor, journalist, singer and teacher work.  — (bbc__88556. She was a cook, a waitress, a dancer, an actor, a journalist, a singer and a teacher.)
• Life tire di cook dem.  — (bbc__63868. The cooks are frustrated)

Translations

• English: cook