produce smoke; smolder; be rampant, rage (of an epidemic); rage (of a battle); be numerous, swarm, teem. Omukka tegunyooka watali muliro. There is no smoke without fire. Obunafu bw'alina bunyooka. He is terribly lazy.
take trouble, fret; struggle (e.g., with a task).
nyoolagana (-nyoo- laganye) v.i. recip. twist one another; grapple with one another (of wrestlers).
be easy to twist.
etc. kunyoolera muntu nsingo, to anger a person.
be twisted; be in pain/anguish; be grieved.
look down on, belittle.
look down on, view with contempt; make light of; show disrespect for. cf. obunyoomoofu, nyooma.
v.i. keep a conversation going, keep talking on and on.
be pleasing to; be interesting to, interest; amuse, amawulire agatabanyumira, news which does not interest them.
flatter; tell/narrate in detail.
inform, amawulire geyinenda okubanyumi- zaako, the news I am gping to tell you about.
okunyumungula mu kamwa, to rinse out the mouth, gargle, okunyumungula mu ndeku, to rinse out a gourd.
more frequently nyuntula (-nyuntudde) v.tr. (variants = nyuuta, nyuutula) squeeze, squeeze out; press; press tightly.
nyuutula vars. of nyunta, nyuntula, q.v.
etc. cf. obunyunyunsi, omunyunyunsi.
q.v. nywegera (-nywegedde) v.tr. kiss.
e- (n/n) way of giving birth; birth; way of producing, cf. zaala.
e- (n/n) native, original inhabitant, indigenous inhabitant, nzaalwa is mostly used as an attributive to another noun. Mwana nzaalwa y'e Budaaki. He is a native (son) of Germany, cf. zaala.
1st pers. sing. I, me. After a limited number of nouns nze becomes -ze. (b)baze, my husband, nzekka, I only, I alone, only me. nzenna, all of me.
e- (n/n) way of stealing; theft. c f. 1 bba.
e- also nzibobbo (n/n) rare kind of basket used for carrying food. cf. ekibbo.
e- (n/n) game played with hoop and sticks; wheel; tire. cf. nnamuziga, ezziga.
e- (n/n) locust.
e- plur. of oluggi, q.v.
e- (n/n) remote corner/part; recess; dense, damp foliage/giuwili.
e- (n/n) termites that leave the termite hill first at the time of the general flight, lit. the ones that polish the holes in the hill. cf. zigula, ettabo.
e- plur. of oluggyo, q.v.
e- plur. of oluziina, q.v.
e- (n/n) jet-black water insect which flits to and fro over the water; fig. very dark person.
kuija ng'obulidde mu kintn, to come loaded down with something heavy (esp. on the head), lit. come disappearing into something.
e- (n/n) way of nursing; nursing; medical treatment, cf. jjanjaba.
e- (n/n) way of believing; faith, belief; doctrine, cf. kkiriza.
e- (n/n) agreement, understanding. enzikirizaganya y'emisaala, wage agreement, cf. kkiriza, kkirizaganya.
e- no plur. (n/n) darkness, cf. zikira, zikiza.
e- (n/n) gonorrhea.
e- (n/n) way/manner of building; style of building, cf. ^zimba.
e- (n/n) arch, epilepsy. The common term today is ensimbu, q.v.
e- (n/n) kind of tree with fine-grained wood, Mitragyne macrophylla; crippled/deformed child.
e- (n/n) kind of hardwood tree. It has an extensive system of branches but a small trunk and is the source of the staves which the Balaalo employ in herding cattle. (Sn.) cf. oluzira.
e- (n/n) way of repairing/mending/fixing up. cf. ddaabiriza.
e- (n/n) spotted hen.
e- (n/n) manner of replying; reply, response, answer, cf. dda, ddamu.
e- (n/n) glossiness, polish (of the skin or other surfaces)..
e-: amagi ag'enziriza, insufficiently incubated eggs which become rotten, cf. ziriza.
e- (n/n) soot; dirt, filth; fig. slanderous reproach, kukola bya nziro, to do evil/ bad/nasty things. Tasiize balala enziro. He has not heaped abuse on others.
e- (n/n) fruit of the muziru tree, q.v.
e- the form of -ddugavu, black, used before nouns of the n/n class and plural nouns of the lu/n class, engatto enzirugavu, black shoes.
e- (n/n) kind of black insect which drips moisture off trees; mistletoe, Viscum album, cf. ddugala, ddugaza.
e- (n/n) manner of running (an operation); direction, management, cf. dduka, ddukanya.
e- (n/n) method/way of beating barkcloth with a patterning mallet, nzituzo, q.v. cf. ttula.
e- (n/n) patterning mallet, mallet with fine grooves for the final beating of barkcloth. cf. ttula.
e- (n/n) far side/other side of a hill, enzivuunuko w'olusozi, the other side of the hill. cf. vvuunuka.
e- (n/n) manner/way of translating; translation, cf. vvuunula. nzizi, e- plur. of oluzzi, q.v. nziziiri, e- (n/n) a kind of black beetle found near bodies of water, cf. obuziziiri.
e- (n/n) hardwood tree, Teclea grandi- folia, I. nobilis, used for making barkcloth mallets, sticks, walking-sticks, etc.; per ext. beating with a stick; beating. Yamu- wuula enzo, he beat him hard.
see nnandiki.
v.tr. appl. 2 keep squeezing/dressing; squeeze/press continually.
q.v. I too, I also, and I.