n., ekikolimo.

v., okukolima, okuvumirira, okuvuma amagufa.

a- also akamunyi (ka/bu or la) kind of hawk, yellow-billed African kite. Ebikolimo bya wankoko tebitta kamunye. (prov.) The curses of Mr. Fowl do not kill the kite. Mere words are useless unless they can be backed up with force.

e- (ki/bi) curse, imprecation; abomination, evil thing, cf. kolima.

e- (ki/bi) insult, reproach; abuse; curse, cf. vuma.

utter curses.

nnomye) v.i. blab out; rant; use invectives/curses, v.tr. blurt out.

insult continually.

vurnulula (-vumuludde) v.tr. conv. cure; be an antidote to; arch. remove a curse from, okuvumula ennyonta, to slacken thirst. cf. -vumi, obuvumi, ekivumo, amavumiro.

nzivodde) v.tr. blaspheme, curse, cf. obuvvoozi, omuvvoozi.

also used to give an emphatic force to certain other verbs, kuvuma kwogoloza, to curse heartily, curse out. kubba kwogoloza, to steal everything, to ‘clean out.' okwogoloza inf.

invoke a curse against. cf. emiromyo.

curse; with caps, the name of a lubaale who caused plague. His temple was in Bulemezi. cf. kiwumpuli.

v.tr. appl. curse.

v.i. appl. pass. be cursed; be accursed; be disgraced. cf. ekikolimo.

reproach bitterly; condemn oneself.