fiɛbi
1
Verb
to whip, flog, beat with a switch, flexible thing
- Man’ Yawɛ ... ni zaŋ fiɛbiga fiɛb’ ba kaman n ni daa fiɛbi Midiannim’... shɛm la. I, the Lord ..., will take a whip and whip them as I whipped the Midianites ...
- bɛ ti mal’ o ansarisi ka fiɛb’ o they will mock him and whip him.
- O daa yaag’ o jaaŋgbee maa n-fiɛbi kom He swished his walkingstick and thrashed the water.
- Nira yi kuli ʒi o dɔzaba, di yɛn fiɛbila o tiba. If someone carries the pods of the dawadawa tree on his head they will be whipping his ears.
- Dovihi (doo vari) ka bɛ mali fiɛbiri kpini bɛ yi ti puhiri Kpini Chuɣu. They use dawadawa (leaves of the dawadawa) to whip guineafowl when they celebrate Guineafowl Festival.
- nini la nini, nyini la nyini ... fiɛb’ bɔba la fiɛb’ bɔba la an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth ... bruises for bruises.