jì
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
take; hold; use
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O jiri mma bee achịcha.
— He used a knife to cut bread.
Jide aka m ka anyị gafee.
— Hold my hand so we can cross.
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Same spelling, different tones
These entries fold to the same letters once tone is removed, so a tone-blind search returns all of them.
- jibreak; snap; be dark (of day); hold; have; use
- ǹjiblackness; darkness (-ji 3. be black)
- kpòsoup, mentholatum, etc.); sting (of pepper); hurt (of sting); spread upon; curse; abuse
- àbànàwateryam (Dioscorea alata Linn.) (also ji àbànà); water yam (Dioscorea alata Linn.)
- zi-zòmimic; mock (= -ji-jè)
- ji òkùa variety of Yellow Guinea Yam (compare ji òyìbò)
- nwò ènwòchange; be changed; metamorphose; be transfigured; change; exchange Bikō gbanwòolụ m ji n kaà màkà nà o lèlù ùle Please change this yam for me, for it is rotten Ndị àfè ojiiì jìdèlù òfu nwoke nā-agbanwò egō n’afịa The police arrested a man exchanging money in the market Anà m èje ụnọ àkù ịgbānwò ego ochiìè m fùlù n’akpàtì m n nyàafù I am going to the bank to change the old money I found in my box yesterday