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mbuzi

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Meaning

e- (n/n) goat, okusiba amatu g'embuzi ku muntu, to make a scapegoat of a person, lit. pin the ears of the goat on someone.

mbuzi, e- (n/n) goat, okusiba amatu g'embuzi ku muntu, to make a scapegoat of a person, lit. pin the ears of the goat on someone.

Related Words
mawemuukirano a- plur. (li/ma) shame, disgrace (particularly that associated with illegitimate birth), embuzi y'amawemuuki- rano, a goat offered mbulabuzi e- (n/n) wild goat. cf. bula, embuzi. mbuzekogga e- also embuzi ekogga (n/n) prison, jail, lit. the goat (mbuzi) gets thin (ekogga). mira (-mize) v.tr. swallow kumira bugobo, to gulp down, bolt; to believe anything one is told, be gullible, kumira maziga, to hold back the tears; to stop cr mmimbiri e- (n/n) kind of tree which produces a deadly poison, Spondianthus ugandensis; poison (produced by the tree). It is also called mu mwana o- plur. abaana (mu/ba) child. When referring to the young of animals mwana is sometimes, but not always, shifted to the mu/mi cla mugongo o- (mu/mi) female of certain animals, ente y'omugongo, cow. embuzi y'omugongo, (female) goat. mulere o- (mu/ba) flute player, (mu/mi) flute; pipe; horn, omulere omuzungu, trumpet, clarinet. Afuuyira embuzi omulere. He is blowing a mutambuze o- rarely omutambuzi (mu/ba) walker; pedestrian; traveler; faithless husband; faithless wife. cf. tambula. muttambuzi o- (mu/mi) kind of tree, lit, it kills the goats. See emmimbiri. muvumbuzi o- (mu/ba) inventor; discoverer; explorer, cf. vumbula.