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Letter M has 2,574 entries.
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muggo LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) stick; walking stick, cane; crutch. Katonda ankubye omuggo. Something bad has happened to me. God has chastised me. cf. obuggo, kaggoggo.

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muzannyo LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) game, sport; play; amusement; drama, play, eby'emizannyo, athletics, sports, games, cf. zannya.

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muze LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) bad habit, evil custom; fig. addiction, kuggya muntu mize, to find fault with a person, dwell on someone's bad habits.

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muggumiro LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) stress, emphasis; firmness, eddoboozi ery'omuggumiro, a firm voice, okulya n'owuliramu omuggu- miro, to eat and feel full/satisfied, cf. ggumira.

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mukyala LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) lady; lady of the house; without the initial vowel wife; as a title of address Mrs., Miss. cf. nnakyala.

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mukyawe LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) hated one, enemy. Empaka ennemeremu zikubya Mukyawe. (prov.) Incessant arguments result in the beating of the hated (wife). Great troubles have their origins in insignificant events. cf. kyawa.

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mutego LG→EN

o- trap; bow; fig. trap, snare, pitfall. Akateeyanira ke kafa omutego. (prov.) lit. (The little animal) which does not cry out dies in the trap. Survival is granted only to those who fight for it. cf. tega, obutego.

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muzi LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) small root, initial root of a plant or bush. Talina mizi. He is a shallow person. He is lacking in depth.

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munyampala LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) headman. Lunyanko- le, omunyampara, Swahili, mnyapara. The word, is rare in Luganda and replaced by nnampala, q.v.

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Munyani LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) banyan, one of a caste of Hindu merchants and traders. The ba- in banyan fn Hindi word cf Sanskrit uilgin) was presumably interpreted as the Bantu pluralizing affix ba-, thus producing the anomalous back formation Munyani. This does not occur in Swahili which has banyani.

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mutemu LG→EN

o- also omutemuzi (mu/ba) assassin; murderer, killer; armed criminal, criminal with murderous intent, cf. temula.

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mutemwa LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) allocation; allotment of money; assessment; apportionment. cf. tema. step, degree (in a process or development), emitala n'emitendera, everywhere, all over.

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muzigo LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) butter; oil; fat; lotion, omuzigo gw'ebinyweebwa, peanut butter, cf. lakazigo, ^ekizigo, otuzigo.

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mukyula LG→EN

o- also omucuula (mu/mi) powder made from the leaves of a tree (binaabi- zaamu, q.v.) used in divination or as an aperient; also used of the tree itself.

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mutene LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) weakling, weak person (either physically weak or deficient in will or character). Mukasa si mutene. Mukasa is not a weak person, cf. -tene.

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