okufa, okufaafaagana, okuzikirira.

e- (ki/bi) lit. it-will-not-grow-up (from kula), kind of insect which bores into dry wood. Kitaakule kizimba mu lumuli. (prov.) The kitaakule builds in a reed (and will soon perish when the reeds are burnt).

perish; be slaughtered. Yalya n'atirimbuka. He gorged himself.

v.i. perish; die; be ruined; be utterly destroyed; be utterly wasted; pour in torrents (of rain).

v.tr. cause to perish; ruin; utterly destroy. depressed/dejected; have the blues; have the starch taken out of one.

to go to waste (of things); to perish completely, kutta ttogge, to destroy completely; to massacre/exterminate completely.

disappear; sink, set (of the sun); end, come to an end.

v.i. appl. 2 perish; die out; disappear; be ruined/destroyed/ 2 obliterated.