o- the form o/-biri (2) used to form the ordinal, ekitabo eky'okubiri, the second book. cf. -biri.

stress; exhort; charge; be chairman of, chair (a meeting).

etc.

kubibwa (-kubiddwa) v.i. pass, be struck/beaten, etc.

kubisa (-kubisizza) v.tr. caus. 1 & 2 cause to strike/beat, etc.; strike/beat with/using.

q.v.

make fun of, scorn, laugh to scorn, cf. obukudaaze, omukudaazi.

hem (cloth); restrict, limit; border; hinder; prohibit, forbid, okukugira ennyumba, to put a fence around a house, cf. olukugiro, omukugiro.

o- plur. amagulu (ku/ma) leg. amagulu g'enjuba, the rays of the sun. cf. guluka.

make proficient, etc. cf. -kugu, obukugu, omukugu.

to come on the run, come in a hurry (to a place where one's presence is required), cf. guluba.

make a clucking sound.

etc.

conceal (an object).

gather up; gather, bring together; rob; fig. apprehend, ‘pick up' (e.g., suspects).

stick out, protrude, cf. enkukunala.

stick in (without care); put partially inside.

come forth (e.g., from water, from the bush, from a hiding place).

cause to emerge/come forth; take out; pull out, drag out; get, obtain.

conceal.

appeal to.

grow up, mature. Awakula ennume tewakula emu. (prov.) lit. Where bulls grow up, there does not grow (just) one. Perhaps ~ Troubles never occur singly, okukula nga, to be formed like; to resemble. Nnalonda akafo akaakula ng'ekisu ky'akasanke. 1 selected a small place which resembled a finch's nest. Obudde bukuze. The situation is very bad. There is trouble.

lit. what dried up the laughter on his cheeks.

go ahead, be at the head; lead. v.tr. lead; guide; precede. Mu wiiki eyakulembera okwefuga kwa Uganda, during the week which preceded the independence of Uganda.

lit. madness makes him pass beyond.

etc. v.tr. appl. be in charge of fa department, an organization); be older than. Ankulira. He is older than I or He is my boss, kukuliramu engalo, to have the habit of petty theft/pilfering.

(bu- implies obudde, used explicitly in the final example under kula.)

be surpassed by; be directed/led by. Ekitongole kino kikulirwa Mwami Kalyango. This department is under the direction of Mr. Kalyango.

q.v.

go away. Olwamala okulya ne tukulubba. As soon as we finished eating we left.

carry away, carry off.

draw, drag, drag along.

get scratched.

rub forcefully. okukulubuuta ebbaluwa, to dash off a letter, cf. kulukuuta, kuuta.

flow, flow away (often with force, as a body of water); fig. pass by in large numbers (of people); pass, flow by (of periods of time).

rare strut. c f. kumba.

flow down, run down (usually, but not always of liquids); fig. pass (of time), okukulukuta kw'ettaka, erosion of the soil.

kuuta.

drag, draw.

drag out one's speech.

stand out (lit. & fig.); jut out; expand, broaden; fig. be proud/conceited.

rollover, roll along; spend (time), okukulungula ebigambo, to spend a yarn.

bustle around, bustle about; move restlessly; be needlessly busy; be anxious/preoccupied.

crowd together.

group, assemble; pile, pile on; burden, overwhelm. Nze tonkuluumulira bigambo bye sisobole. Don't burden me with things which I can't manage.

q.v.

toil, labor; tire oneself.

etc.

more properly ku lwa prep, phrase on behalf of; for the sake of; because of. kulwa ddaaki, also lwa ddaaki adv. finally; at last; eventually; after a while, cf. ddaaki.

to make a fire; to blow on a fire to keep it going. Ennyonyi baagikumyemu omuliro n'esimbula. They started the airplane and it took off.

to settle a dispute. Ekimala empaka kusirika. The way to settle a dispute is to keep silent or On points of dispute it is best to wait and see kumala bwoya ku n turn be, to keep (someone) running ragged, annoy (someone) by keeping him on the go all the time, lit. finish off the hair on the calves of the leg. kumala mmya, to put (someone) in his place, take down a peg. kumala muntu maanyi, to take the wind out of someone's sails, kukamala, to cause trouble (ka = akabi or akabaate). Okamaze. Now you have gone and done it.

-kumbavu rare var. of kulumbala, -kulumbavu, q.v.

e- (n/n) = ekisuma, q.v. elephant- snout fish, Gnathonemus longibarbis.

etc. Baagezaako okumukumbira. They tried to court/woo her. cf. omukumbi; kulukumba.

o- indef. interrog. ordinal which in relative order? which ‘oneth?' (a word which unfortunately does not exist in English). ekitabo eky'okumeka? which book? The appropriate reply would contain an ordinal such as first, third, etc. cf. -meka.

kumiriza (-kumirizza) v.tr. appl. 2 caus. keep together, hold together.

deceive, defraud; embezzle, steal, cf. omukumpanya; kupaakupanya.

o- adv. near, nearby; almost, nearly. followed by ne = near, close to. okumpi n'ennynmba ye, near his house. Kumpi kikakafu nti..., It is almost certain that... kumpimpi adv. rather near, quite close. cf. -mpi, wampi.

o- adv. close together, right next to each other, one after another; in crowds, in great numbers, ebibuuzo eby'omukumu- kumu, a barrage of questions, one question after another.

o- the form of -na (4) used to form the ordinal, ekitabo eky'okuna, the fourth book.

bend over (so that the head is lower than the knees); beg everywhere.

taunt, etc.

fail to develop; grow thin; fail to become well cooked, cf. omukunduggu.

collect, bring together.

lament, wail.

lament.

be conspicuous; stand motionless, remain, Still exist (as a building after a flood); resist, hold out. Nnalengera mmoloka eku- ngubadde wansi w'emiti. I saw a car standing motionless under the trees.

etc. cf. omukungubazi.

tambula).

lead away, spirit away (with a personal object). cf. mukungujjo.