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mukungu

Luganda → English

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Meaning

o- (mu/ba) high-ranking chief; high- ranking official; dignitary. cf. ekikungu, kkungu.

mukungu, o- (mu/ba) high-ranking chief; high- ranking official; dignitary. cf. ekikungu, kkungu.

Related Words
muku o- (mu/mi) time, omuku gumu, once; without any delays or deviations from a route, directly (of a journey). mukubagiza o- (mu/ba) comforter, one who gives consolation in bereavement. Omukubagiza, the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. cf. kubagiza. mukube o- (mu/ba) one who is hit/struck; victim (e.g., of a beating), cf, ^kuba. mukubi o- (mu/ba) lit. one who strikes/hits, omukubi w'ebikonde, boxer, omukubi w'ebi- faananyi, photographer, mukubi is the first elemen mukubiriza o- (mu/ba) chairman, presiding officer; president, omukubiriza w'oludda oluwabula gavumenti, the opposition leader (in government) mukubirizi o- (mu/ba) beater (in hunting). cf. Ikuba, kubiriza. mukubizi o- (mu/ba) one who sums up/ makes a final resume {e.g.. in a dehn.tr). cf. Ikuba, kubira. mukubyabyayi o- (mu/ba) lit. one who beats with plantain fibers (hardly an aggressive weapon), softhearted boss, one who is very kind to those mukudaazi o- (mu/ba) mocker, scoffer, jeerer. cf. kudaala. mukugiro o- (mu/mi) border; edge; side; binding, cloth added to a garment, cf. kugira. mukukku o- (mu/mi) with the -a of rel. huge, enormous; excessively long, omukukku gw'ebbaluwa, an extremely long letter. mukulembeze O- less frequently muku- lembezi (mu/ba) leader; guide; one who goes first, cf. kuletnbera. man; head, superior, person in charge;