yalingi1to loosen, to get or be loose, to be (too) wide (e.g. trousers), to be too large (e.g. a belt, a nut for a screw, a room for one person)Fi chiak-gbani a yaling kama.Your belt is loose (or too large).Yalingi fi garuku maga-dega.Loosen your (dress-) cloth a little.Biika kurika a yaling kama.The child’s trousers are too large.2to abstain (from), to give up (for a certain time)N yaling ndek ale nipooba yaaka.I have given up courting women.3to separate by shaking (e.g. rice and small stones in a calabash; cf. yali to winnow), to clean rice, millet etc. by shakingPa chin ta jam te mu, te n yaling zaanga.Take the calabash and bring it to me so that I can clean the millet (by shaking the small stones out of it).cheng yalingito get out of sight or out of reachKan cheng yalingi.Do not get out of sight.4to give way to, to make room for, to stand asideYalingi tin (<'te n) taam.Make room for me to pass.5to be far away from, to be far (apart), to be a long way from (cf. yalima v.)Sandema ale Wiag an yaling ya.Sandema and Wiaga are not far apart (from each other).yalima v.
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