v., okusekula, okubetenta, okusotta, okugotta, okugoya, okubwagula, okufumula, okutentena.
n., ekifuko.
crumble; break into pieces.
o- adv. like food. Ekyuma ekyo kiyitirivu mu kusa amayinja, kigalya bumere. This machine is very effective in crushing stones, it smashes them to bits, lit. eats them like food. cf. emmere.
deaden; crush, disfigure; destroy.; stifle, hold back, frustrate.
crush, pound. cf. ekigotla; sotta.
mix up; stir together; mash, mash up; crush. Ebigezo byangoya. I flunked the examination, cf. omugoyo.
e- (ki/bi) gruel of crushed green beans, okulya ekiguude, to insult grossly, slander maliciously.
e- no plur. (li/ma) dust, residue of crushed grass, kulonda bwoya mu kkukuuzi, to be occupied in an extremely difficult task, lit. pick up little hairs from the dust. cf. olukukuuzi.
o- (lu/n) trench in which bananas are crushed preliminary to making beer from them.
o- plur. enjaliiro (lu/n) banana leaf in which bananas are wrapped before cooking; strips of banana stems laid in the area where bananas are crushed into juice. cf. 2yala, yaliira.
crush to pieces, pulverize.
e- (n/n) crushed sesame.
e- (n/n) crushed charcoal ashes used as a powder to clean the teeth, cf. senya.
e- (n/n) kind of fruit like a green berry (synonym for njagi and ntula, q.v.). Ekigere kye kisotta entaligita n'ozirya. Her foot crushes the ntaligita and you (still) eat them, i.e., you like her very much or you think her very beautiful, cf. ligita.
e- usually sing, (n/n) sesame, sem- sem; paste made out of crushed sesame. Kye yankoze entungo ekikola ggobe mu ki- bya. He treated me like a dog, lit. what he did too me sesame does to the ggobe in the bowl. cf. olutungotungo.
pound, crush into small pieces.
tread on (b ananas which are used for making beer); brew, okusogola olulimi, colloq. to speak a language very poorly (particularly Lu- ganda). okusogola ebitoomi, to trample through the mud.
mash, etc.
e- (li/ma) place where bananas are crushed for the purpose of making beer; brewery, .essogolero ly'omwenge, brewery. cf. sogola.
crush; beat soft.
mpawaagudde) v.tr. prune (a tree); break, break off; crush; treat roughly. Nnyina yamuwawaagula emiggo emizibu. Her mother gave her a good thrashing.
v.tr. crush; squeeze; press down. cf. nyiga.
v.i. be crushed/ mashed/squeezed very hard.
v.tr. crush; squash; squeeze hard.
v.i. be crushed/ trampled/mashed; fall to pieces (of overcooked meat); fig. be utterly exhausted.
(-memettudde) also mementula v.tr. crush; crunch; grind with the teeth.
v.tr. crush; crumble; squash; chew up; consume; eat up.
v.i. be crushed/ crumbled.
v.i. neut. be broken/ crushed; give in; relax one's demands/conditions. Obudde bumenvese. The heat of the day has started to diminish (about 3 P.M.). cf. -menye, -menyefu, obumenye, kamenya, kamenyambazzi, kimenyoomenyo, omumenyi.
v.i. neut. be crush- able; be easy to crush/squash. cf. -betentevu.
v.i. be crushed/flattened.
throw; hurl down violently.
v.i. be crushed; be pounded; fig. be extremely tired/exhausted.
v.tr. crush; pound.
v.i. be crushed; be pounded; rumble (of drums).
v.tr. crush; pound; beat; incapacitate; overwhelm.
v.i. be deadened/ blunted (as an instrument); become crumpled; be crushed/disfigured; become handicapped; be blocked/stymied/frustrated.
kusotta kagali, to pedal a bicycle.
cf. betenta.
pounding, amannyo amasekuzi, molar teeth, cf. sekula.