fasting
Naija
Etymology
From English: fasting
Pronunciation
- fástìŋ
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
Translations
- English: fasting
Verb
Make person no chop for some time b
- Even if na to go fasting, I go go fasting. — (LAG_19_Nepa-Wahala_DG__11, If it is about fasting, I will fast.)
- Many pipo dey use fasting time to read Quran — (bbc__65553, Many people use the fasting period to read the Quran.)
Translations
- English: fasting