defend

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) defend

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) defends

Past tense (ya wuce) defended

Past participle (ya wuce) defended

Present participle (ana cikin yi) defending

1. to protect your things and/or allies. <> kare kanka, abokanka, ko abubuwanka.

   Mustafa, my guide, was only 17 when the Bosnian War began, but he still defended his Sarajevo neighbourhood [1] <> Mustafa, jagorana, na da shekaru 17 lokacin da yakin Bosnia ya barke, amma dai ya shiga cikin dakarun da su ka kare unguwarsu a Sarajevo [2]

2. (sport) To try to keep the other team from scoring, instead of trying to score. <> kare ko tsarewa a wasa.

Related words

• defender
• defense, defence
• defensive

Google translation of defend

Kare.

1. (verb) kare <> protect, defend; tsare <> restrain, maintain, defend;