ajon1
noun [ singular noun ] F
plural: noun F
(uncountable noun F) beer
alcoholic drink
booze
brew. to brew beer. ireded (ajon) (adjective) (of beer) much. ajon nukadwarak (noun F) brew with strong alcoholic content. ajon nuewiiny 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 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). aidika ajon ki-a (transitive verb) to drink much beer. asip (plural noun F) germinated sorghum or millet ready to be ground into the flour that will be fermented and roasted 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. ainyales (plural noun F) millet or sorghum germinated, dried and ground as yeast for beer making
• aita ajon
to work for beer
• amuna ajon
to prepare or make beer, i.e
• airedakin ajon
to make much beer
• 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
• esosol ajon nu
this beer is too old and smelly
• aibwany ajon
to drink beer uninvited or by gate-crashing
• 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
• 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
• 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)
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