fasting

en-noun

fasting (countable and uncountable, plural fastings)

Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.

1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.

an obese patient while he was undergoing fasting for weight reduction

1967 November 17, United States Navy Medical News Letter, volume 50, number 10, page 13

Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.

puasa

act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food

ninimi

period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food