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nju

English → Luganda

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Meaning

e- plur. amayu or enju (li/ma or n/n) house, cf. ak av 11 fmmanju.

nju, e- plur. amayu or enju (li/ma or n/n) house, cf. ak av 11 fmmanju.

Related Words
njuba e- (n/n) sun. enjuba y'eggi, the yolk of an egg. kusuula njuba, to work until dusk; to work very hard; to do to an extreme degree. njujju e- (n/n) foliotocole, dric-dric bird. njuki e- (n/n) bee. Omwana oyo njuki. That child is uncontrollable. He gets into one situation after another, kugwa njuki mu mutwe, to a njulu (n/n) osier used for making baskets. cf. 2ekiyulu. njuyi e- plur. of oluuyi, q.v. nnyanga e- (n/n) abyss; deep pit; lower depths; quagmire. Enjuba ekkiridde mu nnyanga. The sun has set. nnyanjula e- (n/n) way of introducing/presenting/announcing; introduction (of one person to another; of a book), cf. yanjula. nnyanjuliro e-: omwana ow'ennyanjuliro, a normally developing child, cf. yanjula. nsowole e- adv. without any right, unjustly. Obwami yalya bwa nsowole. He obtained the chieftainship unjustly, cf. sowoka, sowola. nga (high tone) particle used: 1) as a preposition meaning like. Alya nga nsolo. He eats like an animal. 2) before a relative form of nga (low tone) particle used: 1) as the introductory element in the second of two closely related clauses. The corresponding English m nnakayunga (la) conjunction (in grammar); bark of banana tree purplish-black in color, used for tying packages, with the -a of rel. deep purplish-black, cf. yunga.