garri
Naija
Alternative forms
- gari
Etymology
From: Hausa garri meaning Anything in powder form.
Pronunciation
- gàrí
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 12
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 652
- Frequency in raw corpus: 111
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1947
Definition
- cassava wey de don do wey dem fit use make eba or soak am like dat
Noun
garri: processed cassava -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I like dey soak garri. — no translation
- (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.)
- 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 !)
- 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__)
- 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.)
- amod (frequency:3)
- Common garri, — (WAZP_02_Porico_M__34, Common garri !)
- You serve soup different, put garri different. — (NST_cleaned__22096, __no translation__)
- 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.)
- 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__)
- 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 ?)
- 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__)
Derived forms
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