断食 – vocab dash

断だん食じき

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Meanings

Noun

Suru verb

Intransitive verb

1. fasting; fast

Kanji used

断be cut off 食eat

Pitch accent

だんじき

Used in vocabulary

肌はだ断だん食じき

not using makeup to allow one's skin to heal

Noun

断だん食じき月づき

month of fasting; Ramadan

Noun

断だん食じき療りょう法ほう

starvation cure; medical fasting

Noun

Examples1

私わたしはムスリムではないので断だん食じきを守まもる義ぎ務むはないのだが、同おなじアパートで暮くらす以い上じょう、そうした慣かん習しゅうに配はい慮りょすることは大だい事じなことだ。

I'm not a Muslim and so I have no obligation to observe the fast but as long as I'm living in the same apartment having consideration for such a custom is important.