o- (mu/ba) captive, prisoner of war; victim of plunder; one who has been robbed, cf. nyaga.

o- (mu/mi) spoil, booty, plunder; stolen goods, loot. cf. nyaga.

o- (mu/ba) one who snatches; thief. omunyakuzi w'ensawo, pickpocket. cf. nyakula.

o- (la) soot. Nnasanga ekiyumba munyale. I found the house empty/de- serted. cf. kanyale.

(la) kind of ant.

o- (mu/mi) kind of large tree with light-brown wood, Uganda Mahogany, Khaya anthotheca.

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

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.

o- (mu/ba) plunderer, robber, pirate, raider, cf. nyaga.

o- (mu/mi) (act of) going; travel. cf. nyegera.

o- (mu/mi) kind of tree of the Xanthoxylon genus, with grayish-brown wood.

o- (mu/mi) kind of savannah tree, Acacia hebecladoides.

(la) sleeping sickness.

o- (mu/mi) drumstick; door handle.

o- (mu/ba) contemptuous foreigner.

o- (mu/mi) colloq. chicken. cf. skinycnyi, cnnyonyi.

0- more correctly spelled Omunyolo (mu/ba) a native of Bunyoro; loosely a member of any of several Bantu tribes (other than the Baganda) in Uganda.

o- with the -a of rel. few, few in in number; scarce, rare. Yayogedde ebi- gambo bya munyoto. He only spoke a few words. Ennyama efuuse ya munyoto. Meat has become scarce.

(la) blue starling.

q.v.

o- (mu/ba) lit. one who sucks; fig. exploiter, oppressor, cf. nyuunyunta.

o- (mu/mi) white pear, kind of tall hardwood tree, Apodytes dimidiata.

o- (mu/ba) close friend, omu- nywanyi w'omukago, blood brother.

o- (mu/ba) drinker, habitual drinker, omunywi wa taaba, a smoker, cf. nywa.

o- (mu/mi) papaw (or pawpaw) tree. cf. eppaapaali.

o- (mu/ba) hired workman, worker; manual worker, laborer; porter; employee. cf. pakasa.

o- (mu/ba) flatterer, cf. panka.

o- (mu/ba) begging, importunate person; pesterer. cf. peeka.

o- (mu/mi) [Sw.,Port.f\ guava tree. cf. eppeera.

o- (mu/ba) begging, importunate person.

o- (mu/mi) ball; football; soccer match; tire; raincoat, omupiira gw'emmotoka, automobile tire, omupiira gw'enkuba, raincoat.

o- (mu/mi) [Su>.] ebony tree, Dio spyros ebenum, Dalbergia melanoxylon.

o- (mu/ba) [Eng.] policeman, in the plur. abapoliisi, (the) police.

0- (mu/ba) [Eng.] Protestant.

o- (mu/mi) [Su>.] rice; rice plant; in the plur. kinds of rice. See omuceere.

o- (mu/ba) surveyor.

n., obussi.

v., okutta, okutemula, okutirimbula.

omussi, omutemu.

v., okwemulugunya, okw emunyamunya.

ensotoka.

o- (mu/mi) tip; blade (of a sword, knife, etc.). omasa gw'ekitala, the blade of a sword.

pr.n. Moses.

o- (mu/ba) passenger, cf. saabala.

o- (mu/mi) wage, pay, salary.

o- (mu/mi) [Sw.,Ar.] cross.

o- (mu/ba) guide; leader; fifth chief in rank; first one, first person. Nze nnali omusaale ku muyiira. I was the first one to arrive at the fire. cf. lsaala.

o- (mu/mi) wild cherry tree, Garcinia buc hananii.

o- (mu/bi) a very large quantity of rubbish/trash, cf. ekisaaniiko.

(n/n) sandal.

o- (mu/ba) distributor, omu- saasaanya wa ppokopoko, pol. publicity secretary, cf. saasaanya.

o- (mu/ba) sympathetic/compassionate person, cf. saasira.

o- (mu/mi) blood, omusaayi omu- langira, royal blood, enjoka z'omusaayi, gonorrhea.

o- (mu/ba) joker, jester; one whose word cannot be taken seriously, cf. saaga.

o- (mu/ba) one who makes a request, one who asks. cf. saba.

o- also omusabiriza (mu/ba) beggar, cf. sabiriza.

o- (mu/mi) headband/wreath worn as a symbol of victory; headband worn for reasons of illness.

o- (mu/ba) beater, one who flushes a game animal from cover, cf. saggula; omusazzi.

o- (mu/ba) man, adult male; husband. musajja wa Katonda, (often in an ironical sense) the poor fellow, musajjamukulu, old fellow, old man. cf. -sajja, olusajja, nnasajja, ssaabasajja.

o- (mu/mi) barkcloth tree from,which the first stripping of bark has been made; barkcloth from any stripping except the first. See kitentegere, mukaaku, nnakabirye, nnakasatwe.

o- (mu/mi) tribal marking, mark cut on the body. cf. sal a.

o- (mu/ba) person with a bodily part cut off. omusale w'amatu, one whose ears have been cut off. cf. sala.

o- (mu/mi) nature spirit which frequents trees, brooks, etc., and may appear in various forms, esp. that of a woman.

o- (mu/ba) one who is the vehicle for spirit communications, medium, cf. samira.

o- (mu/mi) daylight; daytime; sunlight; sunshine; sun. in the plur. emisana, daylight, middle of the day. Twagala oku- kissa mu musana nti... We should like to make it clear that... Omusana gwaka. The sun is shining, cf. akasana, ekyemisana, essana.

(la) wife's sister's husband.

o- (mu/mi) fault; crime; charge, accusation; court case. (Omusango) gu- musinze. He has been found guilty. The verdict is against him. Asinze omusango. He has won the case. He has been acquitted. okuzza omusango, to commit a crime, okusala omusango, to decide a case. okugoba omusango, to dismiss a case.

o- (mu/mi) kind of tree, Clausena anisata.

o- numer. (mu/mi) seven, with the -a of rel. seventh, omulundi ogw'omu- sanvu, the seventh time. cf. -sanvu.

o- (mu/mi) branch, part of a tree spread out to block a road or path; obstacle, obstruction, cf. akasanvu.