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mwenya (-mwenye)
Luganda → English
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Meaning
v.i. smile.
mwenya (-mwenye) v.i. smile.
Related Words
mwenyamwenya (-mwenyemwenye)
v.i. redup. keep on smiling.
mwenyera (-mwenyedde)
v.i. & tr. appl. smile at.
mwenyereketa (-mwenyerekese) v.i. laugh constantly; laugh in a silly manner
giggle.
mwenanazzi
o- (mu/ba) finicky/dainty person.
mwenda
o- numer. (mu/mi) nine, with the -a of rel. ninth, omulundi ogw'omwenda, the ninth time. cf. -(y)enda.
mwene
o- (mu/mi) kind of edible rat (omusu, q.v.).
mwene emphatic pron. used with personal pronouns and personal nouns
-self, nze mwene, I myself. Katonda mwene, God himself, cf. -ene.
mwenge
o- (mu/mi) beer made from the juice of a special type of banana (such as mbidde, gonja or kisubi) and fermented with sorghum; beer
mwenkano
o- also omwenkanonkano (mu/mi) equality, cf. yenkanankana.
mwennyango
o- (mu/mi) kind of coarse grass, nettle.
mwenyerekesa (-mwenyerekesezza) v.tr. caus. make laugh
cause to laugh. cf. mwenya, omumwenyerekesi.
mwenyesa (-mwenyesezza) v.tr. caus. make smile
cause to smile. cf. akamwenyumwenyu.