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mpaawo

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Meaning

e- (n/n) bowl-shaped calabash or gourd used as a tumbler for drinking, empaawo enzungu, drinking glass, cf. ekiwaawo, oluwaawo.

mpaawo, e- (n/n) bowl-shaped calabash or gourd used as a tumbler for drinking, empaawo enzungu, drinking glass, cf. ekiwaawo, oluwaawo.

Related Words
mpaaba e- (n/n) leg. charge, complaint, indictment, cf. waaba. mpaabaana (la) ibis kind of wading bird related to the herons, lit. give me (mpa) the children (baana). mpaabi e- (n/n) leg. fee paid by a plaintiff before a trial, court fee. cf. waaba. mpaamu there is none there is hardly any (in there), mpaawo, there is npne (here, there), mpaayo, there is none (there). Mpaawo atalifa. There is no on mpaanyisaganya e- (n/n) manner of exchange; mutual exchange, cf. waanyi- saganya. mpaawa e- (n/n) colloq., with the -a of rel. buge, powerful, empaawa y'omusajja, a giant of a man, a very powerful man.