to ask somebody to carry a message, if it does not too seriously inconvenience him, message somebody [Gh.]

• A yi zaŋ yɛtɔɣa talim jɛrigu If you send a message by the hand of a fool.
• 'Bi talim daa' ku yuli soli. Those who do not 'message'someone to the market (to buy something for them) will not be looking down the road.
• bɛ zaa yinoyino bom’ o yaa ni nyaŋ shɛm tariga, ka bɛ zaŋ talim ti ti bɛ mabihi bɛn be Judia tiŋbɔŋ ti ni each of them would find as much as he could manage and send to give to their brethren in Judea.
• bɛ daa shiri niŋ lala n-zaŋ talim Baanabas mini Sool they actually did that and 'messaged' Barnabas and Saul.
• o puhi Filipai Kristiɛnnima, bɛ ni daa talim pin’ shɛli na he would thank the Philippians for the gift they had sent.

to order something through another person

to be in death-throes, lie struggling in a dying manner