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ajon
(uncountable noun F) beer; alcoholic drink; booze; brew. cp. aisub ajon: to make beer, to brew beer. aita ajon: to work for beer. amuna ajon: to prepare or make beer, i.e. to brew beer. airedakin ajon: to make much beer. ireded (ajon) (adjective) (of beer) much. ireded ajon kangina?: (of beer) is it brewed much over there? acuc (uncountable noun F) ?ajon nuka adakai? when it is nearly finished - watery and having lost ability to make one drunk. ajon nukadwarak (noun F) brew with strong alcoholic content. ajon nuewiiny (singular noun F) sweet brew or gruel - one day old. ajon arasai (noun F) beer that is a little bitter or alcoholic - two days old brew. ajon aperoi or ajon abeitok (plural noun F) beer ready to drink - three days old brew. ajon aupaupan (uncountable noun F) brew that is better than ?aperoi? - four days old brew. ajon nuasosolok; ajon nuesosol; ajon nuesasamito (noun F) beer that is overdue for drinking and has gone bad ? bad smelling beer. ajon ekamule (noun M) brew made for sale to the public (commercially) and is not very thick like that for own consumption. ajon ecuwat or ecuat (noun M) sweetish beer which has been squeezed from the thick beer and sold commercially. adakai (singular noun F) dregs or leftovers of beer after drinking, consisting of particles of grain. emanit or epii (noun M) a tube for sucking beer. ajon nuebabar (noun F) bad beer not good for drinking (because it is insipid or astringent). esosol ajon nu: this beer is too old and smelly. aibwany ajon: to drink beer uninvited or by gate-crashing. aidika ajon ki-a (transitive verb) to drink much beer. aibwony ajon: to drink beer ravenously or greedily with a beer tube? with the throat making a racket (noise). aidinga ajon: to drink much beer alone. asip (plural noun F) germinated sorghum or millet ready to be ground into the flour that will be fermented and roasted for beer making. aicop ajon: to serve fresh or thick beer to drinkers in a pot or calabash. aimur akiria: to ferment flour (mixed with water into a thick paste, put into a big saucepan or clay pot or just wrapped in banana leaves and buried in the ground, for a period of five days or one week) for beer making. akeit (noun F) a huge frying pan of clay or steel in which fermented dough (amurat) is roasted in the process of beer making. aberu nakamunan ajon (noun F) a beer brewer or hostess serving beer. aidwom ajon: to eat thick beer without adding water. aike akiria: to fry the fermented dough. aical ajon: to put yeast (ainyales) into sweet thick one-day-old brew to cause fermentation and also to thin it (acalar). ainyales (plural noun F) millet or sorghum germinated, dried and ground as yeast for beer making.