orient

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɔː.rɪ.ənt/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈɔ.ri.ənt/ or /ˈɒ.rɪ-/
• Hyphenation: or‧i‧ent

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) orient

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) orients

Past tense (ya wuce) oriented

Past participle (ya wuce) oriented

Present participle (ana cikin yi) orienting

1. When you orient something, you point it in a certain direction. <> juyawa ko nunawa zuwa ga wani wuri.

   Joe oriented the car north along the road.

2. sarrafa

   See how we orient our revelations <> Ka duba yadda muke sarrafa ayoyin Mu.

Related words

• orientate
• orientation

Proper noun

Proper noun orient

1. Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”) [1] <> ƙasā̀shen gabàs mài nīsā
   • Antonym: occident