fasting

Naija

Etymology

From English: fasting

Pronunciation

• fástìŋ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2876
• Frequency in raw corpus: 60
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2820

Noun

Condition where person no go chop food.

• Our church get fasting tomorrow.  — no translation

• E no say eh make we con go dey do fasting, and prayer,  — (BEN_20_Fasting_DG__30, He didn't say eh we should start fasting and praying.)

• Na Mondays and Thursdays dem dey normally do their fasting.  — (jw__29357, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• fast

Translations

• English: fasting

Verb

Make person no chop for some time b

1. Even if na to go fasting, I go go fasting.  — (LAG_19_Nepa-Wahala_DG__11, Even if it is to go fasting, I will go fasting.)

   Many pipo dey use fasting time to read Quran  — (bbc__65553, __no translation__)

Translations

• English: fasting