fasting

Naija

Etymology

From English: fasting

Pronunciation

• fástìŋ

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Noun

• Condition where person no go chop food.

• Our church get fasting tomorrow.  — ( NSC_2020, There's a fasting at my church tomorrow.)
• E no say eh make we con go dey do fasting, and prayer,  — (BEN_20_Fasting_DG__30, He didn't say we should partake in fasting and praying.)
• Na Mondays and Thursdays dem dey normally do their fasting.  — (jw__29357, They fast on Mondays and Thursdays.)

Related forms

• fast

Translations

• English: fasting

Verb

Make person no chop for some time.

• 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