garri

Naija

Alternative forms

• fish 0.81 323, rat 0.80 90, water 0.80 1456, meat 0.79 329, beans 0.78 97, grass 0.76 139, salt 0.75 94, leaf 0.75 102, bag 0.74 175

Etymology

From Hausa garri. Anything in powder form is garri in Hausa.

Pronunciation

• gàrí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 12
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 652
• Frequency in raw corpus: 111
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1947

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

garri: processed cassava -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I like dey soak garri.  — no translation

2. (frequency:64)

   You make garri.  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__51, You prepare your garri.)

   E don drink garri.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__34, He has drunk garri.)

3. case (frequency:6)

   Dem garnish am with garri.  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__19, They garnished it with gari)

   Bu, but nobody talk sey lasser fever go dey inside garri now.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__46, But... but nobody said that the Lassa would be in your garri !)

4. conj (frequency:5)

   De have... de get edikaikon here, de get epankwokwo, de get garri, and soup, de get eh... (LAG_21_I-Like-Stout_MG__33, They have... they've got edikaikon here, they have epankwokwo, the have garri  — (eba), and soup; they have uh...)

   Some pipo dey chop am alone with palm wine and odas fit use garri or pounded yam enjoy am.  — (bbc__91431, __no translation__)

5. dep (frequency:4)

   I drink garri like sey tomorrow no dey.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__45, I drink garri as if there was no tomorrow.)

   Like di, di, di, di… , about ehn last month now, de say dey get ehn imported garri from India.  — (IBA_18_Money-Wahala_M__24, Like the... the... the... the... about ehn last month now, they said they get ehn, imported garri from Indian.)

6. amod (frequency:3)

   Common garri,  — (WAZP_02_Porico_M__34, Common garri !)

   You serve soup different, put garri different.  — (NST_cleaned__22096, __no translation__)

7. acl:relcl (frequency:3)

   Sey I never smoke my garri finish garri wey e no even get sugar.  — (NST_cleaned__20358, __no translation__)

   Eh di truth be sey di garri wey you chop, eh de no put am where rat dey.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__52, Eh, the truth is that the garri which you eat, eh, they did not put it where there were rats.)

8. cc (frequency:2)

   Ehen but rat, and garri, wetin concern rat, concern garri.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__48, Ehen, but rat and garri, what concerns rats concerns garri.)

   Wetin you fit help dem do, even if na pure water or garri you decide to produce or supply e go guide you on di place to go buy di land and how di size of di land go dey.  — (bbc__99603, __no translation__)

9. nmod:poss (frequency:2)

   Sey I never smoke my garri finish garri wey e no even get sugar.  — (JOS_24_Football_M__23, That I have not finished drinking my garri, garri which does does not even have sugar.)

   Me wey I dey go Ogbete market go dey buy am, I know where de keep deir garri me?  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__55, I who go to Ogbete market to go and buy it, do I know where they keep their garri ?)

10. advmod-det (frequency:2)

    As I d~, I go go dey give am all dese garri, kulkuli, groundnut.  — (NST_cleaned__29054, __no translation__)

    So rat no reach where you we garri so rat no reach where di garri we~…  — (NST_cleaned__4294, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• fish 0.81 323, rat 0.80 90, water 0.80 1456, meat 0.79 329, beans 0.78 97, grass 0.76 139, salt 0.75 94, leaf 0.75 102, bag 0.74 175

Antonyms

• fish 0.81 323, rat 0.80 90, water 0.80 1456, meat 0.79 329, beans 0.78 97, grass 0.76 139, salt 0.75 94, leaf 0.75 102, bag 0.74 175

Translations

• English: processed cassava