okugeraageranya.

geraageranya (-geraageranyizza) v.tr. redup. compare; consider carefully, evaluate; imagine, think of; figure out.

etc. Buli muntu Katonda yamugerera ennaku ze z'alimala ku nsi. God has measured out for every person the days he will spend on earth.

etc.; get for, provide; give greetings for another. Omundabira. Give him my regards. kulabira mu maddu, to be overjoyed to see (something, somebody). okulabira ku..., judging from, compared with. Kino kitono nnyo okulabira ku nkuba etonnya wano mu K. This is very little compared with the rain that falls here in K. kulabira awo (a high-frequency phrase which is difficult to reduce to any simple English equivalent): to get or see something by surprise or unintentionally; to do something without having made plans. Simanyi oba nga nnaagenda, leero nnaalabira awo. I do not know if I am going, I shall have to see/I really have no definite plans. Nnaalabira awo nga bandeetedde ku kamere. I was surprised when they brought me a little food. Baalabiraawo nga bazannya. They happened to be playing. Ndabira awo ekitabo kyange. You see that book of mine over there, give it to me. awo nga nkulabira or awo we nnalabira (stylized ending for a fable or tale). So the tale endeth.

o- plur. emmengo (lu/n) lower millstone; grindstone; kind of large scale for weighing sacks of coffee, sugar, etc. okuteeka ... ku lubengo ne, to place ... on the scale with, i.e., to compare ... with. cf. benga, Mmengo.

v., okugezaako, okugezaamu, okukema; (compare) okugeza, okugeraageranya; t. on, okugezaamu.

njasamye) v.i. open the mouth; be open, open (of the mouth); fig. open, open up (something which can be compared to the mouth). Yeegombanga ettaka lyasame limumire. He used to wish that the earth would open and swallow him up. Ky otonnalya tosooka kwasama. (prov.) lit. What you have not yet eaten, do not first open your mouth (in anticipation). Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. okwasama inf.

okugera emmundu, to aim a gun.

put to test; take as an example; compare; take into account, okugeza, for example. Gezaako! Have a try!

v.tr. caus. liken; compare; make equal to; equate; divide equally.

v.tr. caus. liken to; make like; compare to; cause to resemble; find resemblances with. Omwana bamu- faananya kitaawe. They say the child looks like his father.

weigh.

okwegera amaanyi, to put one's capacities to the test (in a fight, a drinking bout, etc.).

pretend to be; make oneself appear to be; imagine oneself to be.

-efaanaanyiriza (-efaanaanyirizza) v.i. Sc tr. appl. 2 caus. refl. pretend; compare oneself; imagine oneself; imagine/visualize. Tayinza kubyefaanaanyiriza. He cannot visualize/imagine them. Yali annee- faanaanyiriza omuntu omu gwe yali azze okulindirira. He had thought (mistakenly) that 1 was a person whom he had come to wait for.