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but

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Meaning

naye; (except) wabula, wazira.

but, naye; (except) wabula, wazira.

Related Words
baaga (-baaze) v. tr. skin flay; butcher (an animal); cut up; dismember; dissect; operate on (a patient), okubaaga amatooke, to peel bananas so ineptly that bakira also kira adv. all the time all the while, all along; lately; on that occasion; already, conj. all the time that, while. Bakira oli ludda wa? Where were you a baluka (-baluse) v.i. make a cracking sound crack, crackle; give off sparks, flare up; burst, explode; blow up; throb, tinglejfo/ the fingers, etc.); be very hot (of sunshine bbuto e- (li/ma) large stomach, cf. olubuto. become e. (fatigue) okukoowa, okufumbuka, okuggya, okufumbulukuka, okubuta, okuvuya, okulebettuka. belly olubuto. bitaliimu e- plur. (ki/bi) stupidities, stupid things. Leka kwogera bintu bitaliimu bw otyo. Don't say such stupid things, cf. -li, obutalii brim omugo; (full) to the b., bute ngerera. bu- a prefix of many functions for which see the grammars. The following usages are important for lexical purposes because the derivatives formed cannot all be i bulenzi o- (bu/-) male sex (but not of adults), akaana ak'obulenzi.a baby boy. omwana ow'obulenzi, a male child, cf. omulenzi. contr. obuw bulime o- (bu/-) freshly tilled land, land tilled but not sown. cf. lima. bulwark olukomera, bbugwe; (of boat) amabuto.