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lumbe

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Meaning

o- plur. ennyimbe (lu/n) disease, illness; death; scourge; ceremony of distributing the goods and installing the heir of the deceased, olumbe lw'omusajja, a revolting/disgusting/obnoxious man. cf. ekimbe, Walumbe.

lumbe, o- plur. ennyimbe (lu/n) disease, illness; death; scourge; ceremony of distributing the goods and installing the heir of the deceased, olumbe lw'omusajja, a revolting/disgusting/obnoxious man. cf. ekimbe, Walumbe.

Related Words
lannamya (-lannamizza) v.tr. caus. stretch out (the legs) ennyama ey'akalannamye, meat of an animal which has died a natural death. Olumbe lulannamya omuntu (oba ebisolo). Disease kills me lumba (-lumbye) v.tr. attack assault; assail verbally; go to a place to obtain. Emirimu ennaku zino tugirumba Kampala. We go to Kampala these days to get jobs. lumbagana (-lumbaganye) v.i. recip attack one another. cf. omulumbi omulumbaganyi, entalumbwa. lumbugu o- no plur. (lu/n) couch grass. lumbwa (-lumbiddwa) v.i. pass be attacked. lumbya (-lumbizza) v.tr. caus. cause to attack; attack with/by means of. lwakiwumpuli = (olumbe) lwa kiwumpuli trypanosomiasis. See kiwumpuli. lyala; eryala plur. amaala (li/ma) huge talon big claw, big nail, amaala ga Walumbe, the talons of death, cf.