guard
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mai gadi
Pronunciation
Noun
- (countable) A guard is a person or a group of people who watch something and try to stop anything bad from happening to it. <> mai gadi, karewa, tsaro.
- After leaving the police he worked as a security guard at an airport.
- The inmate was beaten by a prison guard while other guards watched.
- (countable) A guard is something that is a barrier between you and something dangerous. <> mahani, katangar kariya.
- You push a button and a guard comes down to keep your hands out of the machine while it works.
- (countable) A guard is a position on a basketball team who moves the ball to help their team gain points
- (countable) A guard is an offensive position in American football who plays either side of the center.
- in emir's palace <> dṑgarī̀
- national guard <> ’yan tsàron ƙasā
- (figurative) catch someone off guard. <> fàki idòn wani, fàki numfāshin wani.
Synonyms
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A guard in front of an airplane -
A man wearing a face guard -
1 & 2 are guards in the offensive positions in basketball -
The positions marked OG are guards in American football -
An honor guard
Verb
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Plain form (yanzu) |
3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) |
Past tense (ya wuce) |
Past participle (ya wuce) |
Present participle (ana cikin yi) |
- (transitive) If you guard something, you watch it and try to stop anything bad from happening to it. <> yin gadi, kare, tsare, kula da, jira, kiyaye, yi garkuwa.
- The building is guarded day and night <> àkwai mā̀su gādìn ginìn darē dà rānā
- The front gate was guarded by Iraqi soldiers.
- two soldiers guard the entrance <> sōjōjī biyu sunā̀ kārè ƙōfàr
- be on your guard against strangers <> kà kìyā̀yi bā̀ƙī
- guard against danger <> kiyā̀yè haɗàrī