n., oluyimba.
v., okuyimba.
empanga.
okuloga; (delight) okusa nyusa nnyo.
omulogo.
obulogo.
a- (la) down payment; deposit given to a merchant to hold an item until full payment is made.
omutunzi, omusuubuzi.
e- (li/ma) hex, spell, enchantment.
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).
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.
o- (mu/ba) [Su>. 3 hawker, itinerant merchant, peddler, cf. tembeeya.
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.
o- (mu/mi) limited amount/quantity; pile, heap; unit (e.g., of nuts, etc.. set out by a merchant for sale), cf. lenga.
o- (mu/ba) seller, salesman, merchant, trader, dealer, cf. tunda.
oku- tunda lejjalejja, to sell at retail, omutunzi wa lejjalejja, a retail merchant, abapakasi aba lejjalejja, temporary workers, workers who do odd jobs, contr. kolijja.
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.
o- (mu/ba) trader, merchant, dealer, cf. suubula.
-esunyaako (-esunyizzaako) v.i. caus. refl. be delighted/enchanted; be happily excited.