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nnamuzisa (la) as adj. (usually invar.) catastrophic

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Meaning

disastrous, totally destructive. olutalo nnamuzisa, a disastrous war. eby'okulwanyisa binnamuzisa, nuclear armaments, atomic weapons, yegu nnamuzisa, Asian flu. ebisolo nnamuzisa, deadly animals, nnamuzisa w'obufumbo, destroyer of marriage, cf. zika, omuzisa.

nnamuzisa (la) as adj. (usually invar.) catastrophic, disastrous, totally destructive. olutalo nnamuzisa, a disastrous war. eby'okulwanyisa binnamuzisa, nuclear armaments, atomic weapons, yegu nnamuzisa, Asian flu. ebisolo nnamuzisa, deadly animals, nnamuzisa w'obufumbo, destroyer of marriage, cf. zika, omuzisa.

Related Words
nnamaaso with the -a of rel. sharp-eyed keen-sighted. It is almost exclusively restricted to the following proverb: Embwa ya nnamaaso bw'etebba n'eyigga. When the keen-si nnamaddala invar adj. real, genuine; actual; superb, first-rate. Omukristu nnamaddala, a true Christian. Oluganda olwa nnamaddala, excellent Lugand nnamalagala (la) kind of small tree Ficus depauperat a. Nnamasole pr.n. (la) title of the mother of the Kabaka queen mother. nnamata from amata milk, q.v. amaaso ga nnamata, eyes with a great deal of white in them. nnambaalaaia with the -a of rel. undeveloped (of breasts) per ext. mannish woman. Nnambi pr.n. the first woman in Ganda cosmogony comparable with Eve in that she brought death into the world. She was the daughter of Ggulu (Heaven), the sister of Walumbe (death nnamige invar adj. fearless, bold, courageous, heroic, omuzira nnamige, a heroic person. nnampala (la) headman foreman, supervisor. nnampala (la) the poor woman the poor lady (in the sense of unfortunate, not necessarily impoverished), cf. ssempala. nnampulirazzibi (la) person who is hard of hearing cf. wulira. nnamudibaga (la) mess confusion, bungled-up situation, cf. dibaga.