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Letter Z has 199 entries.
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zingula (-zingudde) EN→LG

zingulula (zinguludde) v.tr. conv. 1 & 2 unwrap; unroll; untwist; unwind. Omwo nno nnaakazingulamu emyaka kumpi kku mi n'etaano. Here I had already spent almost fifteen years.

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ziringitana (-ziringitanye) v.i. toil EN→LG

drudge; work ineffectively; be painful, laborious (e.g., of a job of work). Omulimu guziringitanye. No progress has been made on the work, ne ndaba nti yali ajja kunkolera ebiziringitanye, and I saw that he was going to mess things up for me.

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zziga EN→LG

e- (li/ma) tear, okumira amaziga, to hold back (lit. swallow) one's tears, restrain oneself from crying; stop crying.

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zzadde EN→LG

e- (li/ma) children, offspring, progeny; generation, ezzadde etto, the younger generation, cf. zaala.

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zziga EN→LG

e- (li/ma) wheel (esp. that made by children from a twig in the game of zziga). kukuba zziga, to play hoops, cf. nnamuziga, enziga.

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zza (-zzizza EN→LG

nzizizza) v.tr. caus. cause to return/go back; restore, return to; send back; bear, produce (crops), okuzza omu- sango, to commit a crime/offense, okuzza ogwa Nnamunkululu (the name of a very cruel Katikkiro), to commit a serious offense/ an abomination, okuzza mu ddiiro, to make (someone) do over what was done poorly/ incorrectly, okuzza obuggya, to restore, renew. oku zza ekiwa munda, to draw a breath of astonishment, okuzza omuntu ku bbali, to take a person aside/to one side, okuzza ku mumwa, to eat; to spend money, buli we nnazzanga omutwe, everywhere I turned my head, abantu abanaku abatalina ke bazza eri mumwa, poor people who have nothing to eat, lit. to return to the lip. Katonda yazza bibye. God restored his own (said when a seriously ill person recovers ).

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