labor

Other spellings

• labour

Pronunciation (Yadda ake faɗi)

• Hyphenation: la‧bor

Noun

Singular labor

Plural labors

Usually (uncountable)

1. Labor is the work that people do, usually lifting, moving, building, etc. rather than desk work. <> aikin k'arfi kamar d'aukar abubuwa masu nauyi.

   The cost of labor is higher than the cost of building materials.

2. Labor are the people who do this kind of work. <> lebura, mutanen k'odago.
   • Synonym: employees

   There's a big labor shortage in the construction industry.

3. Labor is the process a pregnant woman goes through when she is giving birth (having her baby). <> idan mace mai ciki ta kasance kan gwiwa. kan naƙuda.

   She was in labor for more than 12 hours before her baby was born. <> Tana kan gwiwa har zuwa awa goma sha biyu

   Her labor was painful and slow. The doctors had to give her medicines to speed up her labor.

4. Labor is the name of a big political party in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. <> wata babbar jam'iyyar siyasa a UK, Ireland, Australia, da New Zealand.

   Labor won the election. <> Labor ne suka ci zab'en.

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) labor

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) labors

Past tense (ya wuce) labored

Past participle (ya wuce) labored

Present participle (ana cikin yi) laboring

1. (intransitive) If you labor, you work hard. <> yin aiki da k'ok'ari.

   He labored over the food all afternoon to get ready for dinner. <> Ya yi aiki akan abincin duka ranar don shirin abincin dare.

   Quran 84:6 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it. <> Ya kai mutum! Lalle ne kai mai aikin wahal da kai ne zuwa ga Ubangijinka, wahala mai tsanani, To, kai mai haɗuwa da Shi ne.

2. (transitive) If you labor the point, you keep talking about it after people understand it well. <> cigaba da magana akan abu har bayan mutane sun gane.

Google translation of labor

Aiki.

1. (noun) aiki <> job, work, activity, function, labor, operation; aikin likita <> medicine, labor;