a reckoning, accounting

• bɛ laasabu parigi their calculations fail them.
• (o) ku ʒini mali laasabu nya o mal’ liɣiri (he) won't sit down and reckon up to see if he has the money.
• Yawɛ, a yi yɛn niŋ ti daalahichi laasabu, ti Duuma, ŋuni n-lee ni tiligi? 'If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?'.
• na’ so ŋun daa bol’ o yiŋbihi na ni o ti mal’ o liɣiri din be bɛ sani laasabu a king who called his servants in to make an accounting of his money that they were responsible for.

a number, total of

• Damba wari la daba ata laasabu. Damba is danced for a total of three days.
• Kuruchinim’ maa daa nyɛla kaman tusaayi laasabu. The number of pigs was about 2000.
• (bɛ) kalinli daa nyɛla kaman dob’ tusaanu laasabu (their) number totalled about 5,000 men.
• (Goliat) wɔɣilim daa nyɛla kaman mita ata laasabu (Goliath's) height was about three metres.
• Kaman zuŋɔ yuun’ kɔbsiyi ni pihinii ni ayɔpɔin laasabu m-bɔŋɔ (kama 1713) ka Zabaɣisi mini Dagbamba daa tuhi nimaani. About 280 years ago (around 1713) the Gonjas and Dagombas had a battle there.

a type, kind

reasoning

• ŋun ka laasabu one who has no sense.
• jǫrigu jɛra mini bɛn ka laasabu fools and those with no rationality.

divination

• (o) daa shɛ mukuru laasabu din nyɛ bɛ ni daa lihiri shɛli ni buɣiri baɣa niŋ di ni (he) sewed a soothsaying-skirt that they examine to perform divination.
• (o) daa buɣiri baɣisi, ka niŋdi laasabu (he) was consulting diviners and soothsaying.

useless, not included [in the negative]