akabendobendo.

okulumika.

e- (li/ma) kind of plant with edible leaves resembling spinach or doodo (q.v.).

o- plur. (ka/bu) bits and pieces of dried leaves floating in drinking, water/ tea/mubisi, etc.; dregs or sediment in any beverage.

enjole; (corn) omuganda, ekinywa, omuvumbo; (leaves) ekikoola; (fruit) ekirimba; (bananas) enkota, ekiwagu, ekisinja, oluwagala.

o- (bu/-) kind of mushrooms which grow on withered plantain leaves (ssanja).

e- (li/ma) partly ripened fruit of the muwafu or the musaali tree. Lukuba eggu ne luleka omuzima. (Death, olumbe) strikes the young fruit and leaves the ripe fruit (untouched). This saying refers to one who dies at a very young age.

nzijudde or njijudde) v.tr. dish up, serve (food); uncover (food). (Ki- ganda food is cooked with a covering of banana leaves and therefore has to be uncovered before eating). Kye nnava nsigala ku bwa kinejjulira. For that reason I remained a bachelor, (kinejjulira means literally it will serve itself.) cf. -jjule, eki- jjulo, kinejjulira, lujjudde.^olujjula, olu- jjuliro,

e- plur. amayuuni (li/ma) plant of the arum family, Colocasia antiquorum. The leaves and roots are edible.

a- (ka/bu) kind of creeping plant with fleshy leaves. It is used to wipe off banana sap.

the leaves of which are used for polishing and cleaning and also for putting on sores and wounds.

kind of shrub the leaves of which taste of oxalic acid.

a- (ka/bu) a kind of thomy bush with yellow flowers the leaves of which are used for making a red dye.

a- (ka/bu) kind of plant whose leaves are used for medicinal purposes. cf. oluvunvu.

e- (ki/bi) type of basket made of papyrus, palm leaves or osiers and lined with the stems of plantain leaves, in the plur. baskets; food, meal, okuba mu bibbo, to be eating. Atulinnyidde mu bibbo. He has interrupted our meal/eating, cf. akabbo, olubbobbo, enzibo.

e- (ki/bi) temporary outdoor structure with open sides and a canopy, usually constructed with banana leaves. It is used for social events, wedding parties, etc.

e- (ki/bi) leavings of grass and bananas which remain after the pressing process used in making beer, ebikamulo bya caayi, tea leavings, tea leaves after the substance has been pressed out of them. cf. kamula.

e- (ki/bi) bag made of dried palm leaves; shopping basket.

e- (ki/bi) plant with large, soft leaves which are used as toilet paper.

e- (ki/bi) dry/withered plantain leaves used in making packages, containers, pillows, etc., and in thatching huts. cf. essanja.

e- with the -a of rel. dark green, obukoola obwa kisugga, dark green leaves. cf. nnakasugga, ensugga.

e- (ki/bi) a banana leaf that is carefully smoked over the fire and used as a container for locally made medicine; plume of banana leaves for ornamenting beer gourds of important people, cf. ol li worn ho.

usually kootakoota (-koose- koose) v.i. (redup.) be bent/bent over; walk with a stoop, okukootakoota mu ga lumonde, lit. to bend over in the sweet- potato leaves (ga implies malagala, leaves), i.e., to try to hide, but to be found out; to want to do something but to fail because of the wrong approach/technique.

vide leaf; put forth l., okw anya; fallen l., ekikunkumusi.

o- (lu/n) wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata. Ssande ey'Enkindu, Palm Sunday. For the use of the leaves see oiusansa. cf. ekikindu.

o- (lu/n) the damaging/ruining of plantain trees by stripping off most of the leaves; the tendency to beat/bully other people. Alina olukuunya. Heisabully. cf. kuunya.

bleed by cupping; fig. eavesdrop on, spy on. kulumika muntu bigambo, to slander a person, falsely attribute words or actions to a person.

o- (lu/n) a funnel-like structure, originally made of plantain leaves, used for capturing termites (nswa).

o- (lu/n) kind of evergreen shrub, the leaves of which are highly poisonous. cf. 3skiwoko.

o- no plur. (lu/n) thin dusty substance; sawdust; ash-like dust on young plantain leaves, okuwunya oluwugge, to have the smell of a new pot/calabash.

o- plur, empina (lu/n) strand of a banana leaf tied around the top of a gourd to prevent the beer from overflowing. It may also be used to tie around other banana leaves on a cooking pot to provide additional strength. It is also worn around the waist in certain dances and ceremonies.

a- plur. (li/ma) tea leaves.

a- plur. (li/ma) leaves, foliage; period/time for weeding.

e- (n/n) kind of edible plant, resembling spinach but with smaller leaves. It cooks very rapidly, hence the following idiomatic usage: Embooge teyabuguma nga tutuuse. We arrived in no time at all, lit. the mbooge had not even become warm.

e- (n/n) dry rot in wood; dust-like substance produced by worms or boring insects; powdery coating on some fruits and leaves; sawdust, cf. ^wumba, -wumbu.

e- (n/n) kind of plant with edible leaves.

e- (n/n) rafter, beam; long pieces of firewood to form the base on which other firewood is placed; banana leaves used as a covering or lining (see olwaliiro). ...laba, enjaliiro ekyali ku liiso lyo....and behold, a beam which is in thine own eye. (Matth. 7; 4). cf. ^yala, valiira.

e- (n/n) amaranth, a plant with red flowers, the leaves of which are eaten in time of famine.

e- (n/n) receptacle for catching falling water (particularly rain water); eaves. cf. lembeka.

e-: emmere ennuma, food without vegetable sauce, main dish without vegetable sauce. Sirikuleka wabi, akuleka ku mmere nnuma. (prov.) lit. 1 will not leave you in a bad situation, he leaves you (eating) food without any vegetable sauce. Description of a fair-weather friend.

e- (n/n) type of dark green leaves used as a vegetable, bitter but extremely tasty, cf. ekisugga, nnakasugga.

v. (bum), okusiiriiza, okwokya; be seared (leaves), okuwotoka.

v. (tears), okukaaba; (wings) okukuyeeya; (leaves) okuwaatula; (skin) okuyubula, okunuunyula; (branches) okwewbwagula.

v.tr. (plantain leaves), okubabula; (bark cloth) okwoteza, okubabira; make a s. smudge, okuwemba omuliro; s. tobacco, okunywa taaba, okunywa taba.

e- (li/ma) banana leaves used for covering plantains while cooking; trash. cf. naanitd/ka.

e- (li/ma) dry/withered piantain leaves, cf. obusanjasanja, ^ekisanja.

cf. ekiwundu.

e- (li/ma) leaves of the pumpkin/ gourd vine used as food.

v.tr. (harkcloth tree), okusubula, okuyimbula; (leaves) okumenyeza; (skin) okuyubula; (thatch) okusereekulula; (grain of maize) okukongola; (rib of plantain leaf) okuyubuluza.

e- (li/ma) leaves of the arum lily used as a vegetable.

okuwumbulula, okusumulula, okusabuukulula; (food from leaves) okusoosootola.

mpaatuse) v.i. lose weight, become thin/emaciated; lose leaves/ foliage.

beat, -hit. v.i. locc/chcd leaves, ukuM-aaiu'ia emiggo, to beat with sticks, okuwaatula oluyi, to slap, okuwaatula engalo, to clap the hands.

oipuuye) v.tr. pack/place banana leaves over (food in the pot before it is cooked), cf. akawuuwo.

o- also omucuula (mu/mi) powder made from the leaves of a tree (binaabi- zaamu, q.v.) used in divination or as an aperient; also used of the tree itself.

begin; appear, loom up.

o- (mu/mi) a banana fiber laid on top of food placed in a cooking pot and used to remove the food from the pot when the food is cooked. Both the food and mugondoli are covered with banana leaves and the ends of the mugondoli are lifted from both sides and tied together at the top. The purpose is to avoid burning oneself.

a very venomous snake which has the same coloration as dry leaves.

lit. Mr. Cricket-Eater. Sserulya-mayenje ebinnya aleka byasaami- ridde. (prov.) Mr. Cricket-Eater leaves holes gaping open (i.e., he does not fill them in after obtaining the crickets). This is said of a person who leaves jobs half done. cf. lya, ejjenje.

(la) kind of plant the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tobacco. cf. taaba.

o- (mu/mi) kind of shrub, the leaves of which are used for flavoring tea and for medicinal purposes.

o- (mu/mi) kind of tree with soft wood and large leaves.

v.tr. caus. cause to taper; put up in sheaves.

o- (mu/mi) kindof tall forest tree, chrysophyllum perpulchrum. The leaves are purple-red on the under side.

tobacco leaves). v.i. dry up (of a scab).

(la) type of plant with small yellow flowers and grayish-green leaves; with cop. the nameof a lubaale; a common given name for women; the name of one of the hills of Kampala on which the Anglican Cathedral is located.

o- (mu/mi) tall forest tree, with large leaves and brownish-white wood,

o- (mu/mi) iron weed, asterace- OUS shrub, Vernonia amygdalina. Its leaves have a medicinal value.

o- (mu/ini) kind of small tree, Thylachium africanum. The leaves produce a poison which was formerly used in trials by ordeal, cf. amaduudu.

be unrolled, be opened (of leaves, books, etc.). okwanjulukuka inf.