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nyɔni

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stink

  • mɔɣili maa kosoya ni kom ni nyɔni the water of the river-channels will stink. [ISA 19:6]
  • Bɔ n lee nyɔni ka bindi ŋɔ. What is it that stinks like excrement?
  • Di yi ti pooi, di ni nyɔni. If something becomes rotten, it will stink. [Prov. 936]
  • Di nyɔni luɣiluɣi. It stinks awfully.
  • hal ka di ti yiri yi nyɛhi ni, ka nyɔni yi nyee 'until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it'. [NUM 11:20]

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to be fed up with, sick of, enraged, raise a row

  • Ka Dilaila daa kul zaŋ di yɛla kaɣili Samsin biɛɣ’ kam, ka kul mal’ li dol’ o hal ka o nyee ti nyɔni pam di zuɣu With such nagging Delilah prodded Samson day after day, and kept on at him until he was tired to death. [JDG 16:16]
  • A nyee yi nyɔni, nyin’ gbaam’ amaŋa. If you become fed up with someone, you should be careful of what you say or do.