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wamba (-wambye EN→LG

mpambye) v.tr. take prisoner; capture; confiscate; commandeer, appropriate; reserve (an item for purchase), ask a merchant to set aside (an item for subsequent purchase, without however making a deposit).

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doomoola (-doomodde) LG→EN

v.tr. give in large quantities (either as an outright gift or as a merchant who gives liberal portions of what he is selling). Kitaawe amudoomoolera omusimbi omuyitirivu. His father gives him a huge amount of/far too much money, cf. ekidoma.

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Munyani LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) banyan, one of a caste of Hindu merchants and traders. The ba- in banyan fn Hindi word cf Sanskrit uilgin) was presumably interpreted as the Bantu pluralizing affix ba-, thus producing the anomalous back formation Munyani. This does not occur in Swahili which has banyani.

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mulengo LG→EN

o- (mu/mi) limited amount/quantity; pile, heap; unit (e.g., of nuts, etc.. set out by a merchant for sale), cf. lenga.

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muwambi LG→EN

o- (mu/ba) one who captures, captor; one who confiscates; one who asks a merchant to reserve an item which will be paid for and claimed at a later date. Omu- wambi si muguzi. (prov.) One who has an article set aside is not necessarily the one who buys it. cf. wamba.

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