o- (bu/-) masculinity, manliness. cf. -sajja.

o- (bu/-) summit; edge, extremity; outskirts.

o- adv., lit. like ivory, expensive, costly, very dear. Emmotoka zigulwa busanga. Cars are very expensive. cf. essanga.

o- (bu/-) gentle southeasterly breeze.

o- (bu/-) kind of mushrooms which grow on withered plantain leaves (ssanja).

o- (bu/-) numbness; electric shock, cf. sannyalala, amasannyalaze.

o- (bu/-) okulaga

o- (bu/-) rebelliousness; riotousness, cf. sasamala.

o- (bu/-) medical science, medicine. obusawo bw'ebisolo, veterinary science, cf. omusawo, ensawo; sawula.

o- (bu/-) poverty; wretchedness. cf. seega.

o- (bu/-) wildness, profligacy, shamelessness, cf. -seegu.

a- plur. of akaseekende, q.v.

o- adv. like a grasshopper. Omubbi awenjebwa buseenene. The thief is being hunted everywhere, lit. like a grasshopper, cf. enseenene.

o- (bu/-) slipperiness. cf. seerera.

o- (bu/-) overcharging, asking too high a price, cf. ^seera.

o- (bu/-) kind of mushrooms which grow on termite hills, cf. ensejjere.

o- (bu/-) tenancy on another's land. c f. Isenga.

o- (bu/-) gruel/porridge made from millet or banana meal, kuyoya busera, to be tired and hungry. Mpolampola, ayiisa obusera. (prov.) Very slowly, he cooks (good) porridge. Slow but sure.

o- (bu/-) witchcraft, wild dancing and magical rites performed at night by the basezi. cf. sera, omusezi.

ekisaka; beat about the b., okusala amakeete.

engabi.

be, okusaakaatira; (hair) okutuukuuma.

o- (bu/-) imprisonment, cf. siba.

o- (bu/-) deputyship, position of one who is second in command/charge. cf. sigira, omusigire.

o- plur. of kasigirirwa, q.v.

o- (bu/-) inheritance, cf. ^sika.

o- also obusimbalala (bu/-) verticalness. as adv. vertically, upright, on end; fig. in an upright/just manner. -a busimba, vertical, upright, cf. simba.

omulimu, emitawaana.

o- (bu/-) quietness, calmness. cf. sirika, -siriikirivu.

o- also obusirusiru (bu/-) foolishness, folly, nonsense, cf. -siru, omusiru(siru).

o- (bu/-) raffia fiber, fiber of the raffia palm, Raffia monbutlorum. cf. akaso.

o- (bu/-) ability, capability, competence. cf. sobola.

o- (bu/-) fault, wrongness; mistake. cf. soba, sobya.

o- (bu/-) religiousness; spirituality, eby'obusomi, spiritual affairs, omwoyo ogw'obusomi, piousness, piety, cf. soma.

o- (bu/-) marrow of the bones. Yalabika ng'obulumi bumutuuse mu busomyo. He looked as if he had been hurt to the quick.

o- (bu/-) infantile anemia.

o- also obusosozi (bu/-) selectiveness, selectivity; discrimination (usually in the sense of hostility to another person or group), cf. sosola.

o- plur. (ka/bu) roe (of fish).

o- (bu/-) murder; killing, cf. tta.

oluyonkante.

v., okutayira, okutawaana.

o- (bu/-) surface of a drum; empty space, nothing, kukuba busu, to miss, fail to hit. Ebyasi byakubye busu. The bullets missed the mark.

e- adv. across, on the other side of. ebusukka kkubo, across the road. cf. sukka.

o- (bu/-) sores on the feet and legs; originally charms or herbs placed in the road which caused sores on anyone who tried to pass. cf. sukka.

o- see akassukussuku.

o- (bu/-) congential enlargement of the cheeks, amatama ag'obusu- kuttu, enlarged cheeks.

o- (bu/-) anger, ire, wrath. cf. -sungu, sunguwala.

o- (bu/-) trade, commerce. eby'obusuubuzi, trade, commercial matters. c f. suubula.

0- pr. n. (n/n) Syria.

o- (bu/-) land rent, ground rent; land tax; property tax.

o- less often obusulubbu (bu/-) [Stu., dr.] moustache.

o- adv. like a termite, i.e., naked, kusigala bu swa, to be left naked, cf. enswa.

o- (bu/-) fierceness, fury, as adv. fiercely, furiously, kutunuza bu swandi, to have a fierce look. Yalwanyisa buswandi He fought furiously.

o- (bu/-) shame, disgrace, cf. swala.

o- (bu/-) dire poverty; misery.

o- (bu/-) whiskers (of a cat or other feline), cf. enswiriri.

adj., amitawaana, nyiikivu; be b., okutawaana, okuse jjera, okutawuka, okwetawula mumirimu, okukabassana.

naye; (except) wabula, wazira.

to go; butagenda, not to go. kumanya, to know; butamanya, not to know; ignorance.

o- adv. like tobacco, ennaku kuzinywa butaaba, lit. to drink the days (or sorrow; ennaku may mean either) like tobacco, i.e., to pass away the time; to spend long and dreary days. cf. taaba.

bulaabutana (-butaabutanye) v.i. redup. + na - buta (but somewhat more emphatic).

unconfined (of an animal); free, having no commitments (of a person); on the loose, at large (of a criminal); free, offering freedom of movement and expression (of a country), okulya obutaala, to be untethered/free, etc. Omubbi akyalya butaala. The thief is still at large.

o- less often obutaamaavu (bu/-) fury, ferocity, wildness, cf. -taamaavu; taama.

o- neg. inf. as adv. for good, forever, lit. not to return, cf. ^dda, ddira.

o- (bu/-) neg. inf. of %a, q.v. indifference, unconcern; carelessness; laziness.

o- with the -a of rel. knock-kneed. Wa butagali. He is knock-kneed, cf. tagala.

o- (bu/-) freehold estates of the clans; ancestral home; place where one was born, home, kugwa butaka, to be fruitless, have no result. Enteesaganya zigudde butaka. The negotiations have fallen through. Ssente zaffe zigudde butaka. Our money has been wasted. cf. ettaka, omutaka.

o- (bu/-) rust. cf. talagga.

o- (bu/-) neg. inf. of-li, not to be. mu butali bugenderevu, unintentionally, mu butali butongole, unofficially.

o- (bu/-) stupidity, nonsense. cf. -li, ebitaliimu.