garri

Naija

Alternative forms

• gari

Etymology

From: Hausa garri meaning Anything in powder form.

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

Noun

• cassava wey de don do wey dem fit use make eba or soak am like dat

• I like dey soak garri.  — Egbokhareno translation
• I drink garri like sey tomorrow no dey.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__45, I drink garri as if there was no tomorrow.)
• You serve soup different, put garri different.  — (NST_cleaned__22096, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• eba, swallow

Translations

• English: processed cassava