fire

Naija

Alternative Forms

Etymology

From: English fire

Pronunciation

  • fáɪ́ȷà

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Noun

  • Someting wey dey comot blue or red light wey dey burn and wey de dey use cook someting.
  • Na fire wey person dey use cook na im dey still burn house.  — (Fire can be both useful for cooking and dangerous when it ignites a conflagration.)

Related forms

Translation

  • English: fire

Verb

  1. Make person dey nack.
    • Bobby and Susan dey like fire each oder.  — (Bobby and Susan both enjoy having sex with each other.)
  2. Make dem use someting send someting wey fit enta person body, wunjure am.
    • Di police just dey fire di people wey come tief for di estate.  — (The police shot at the the thieves who came to rob at the estate.)
    • No be sey vigilante get gun, if kasala burst now, anyting dey inside wey de go fire?  — (It is not just enough that the local vigilante have guns, do they have bullets to shoot?)
  3. Make jazz or strong ting wey eye no fit see come meet person begin affect am or im life.
    • As dey carry am go different different hospital no fit find wetin dey do am, people begin reason sey village people fire am be that.  — (Since they could not diagnose what was wrong him/her after going from one hospital to another, the general opinion was that s/he had been bewitched.)

Synonyms

Translation

  • English: to have sex, shoot, enchant