be, okuzaalibwa.
o- (bu/-) stiffness; dryness (of clothes); coolness, coldness (of food); fig. obstinacy, stubborness. cf. kakanyala, -kakanyavu.
o- (bu/-) hardness; state of not being well done (of cooked food, meat); difficulty; fig. obstinacy, stubbornness. cf. kaluba, -kalubo.
o- (bu/-) freehold estates of the clans; ancestral home; place where one was born, home, kugwa butaka, to be fruitless, have no result. Enteesaganya zigudde butaka. The negotiations have fallen through. Ssente zaffe zigudde butaka. Our money has been wasted. cf. ettaka, omutaka.
o- (bu/-) quality of being natural/native/inborn/traditional; nature; origin.
omuggulanda.
lit. (strength, amaanyi, implied by ga-) failed me. Contr. nnaatuukirira.
e- (li/ma) stubborness, obstinacy,, argumentativeness, cf. mawaggali.
a- no plur. (ka/bu) obstinacy, stubbornness; craziness.
a- (ka/bu) small chair; small stool. Nnazaalibwa mu njala ‘ani amuwadde a katebe.' I was born during the great famine of the early 1940's, lit. the famine ‘who has given him a chair (so that he can sit down and eat our food)?' cf. ekitebe, entebe.
a- (ka/bu) infant, newborn baby.
lit. madness makes him pass beyond.
o- plur. amatu (ku/ma) ear. okumalira amatu wansi, to be sound asleep, be dead to the world, okukuba amatu or okukubaakuba amatu, to become convalescent, kugwa mabeere mu matu, to have a disease of the ear (believed to be caused by the spilling of mother's milk into the ear); to be obsti- nate/stubborn/pigheaded (esp. of children). okutega amatu, to listen attentively. Amatu agataddemu ebisubi. He is deliberately inattentive/refuses to listen, lit. has placed grass in his ears.
a person with large protruding ears; a stubborn, obstinate person.
e- (n/n) obstinacy, stubborness, recalcitrance. ow'emputtu, obstinate person.
e-: okukuba mu mputtululu, to slap on the side of the face, with the -a of rel. Stubborn (but more often mputtu, q.v.).
e- (n/n) string snare, okukuba enkanda wansi, to refuse angrily/stubbornly/flatly.
tuukirira. contr. gannemeredde.
e- (n/n) madness; ferocity; sullenness; stubbornness, ow'entuuluulu, a person possessing the aforementioned attributes.
sowole, sogabe.
kakanyavu, a mputtu, a ggwale.
e ggwale, emputtu.
okuvugula, okuliyisa enguzi, okuweerera.
load (on someone's head); load; lift; hang. v.i. recur. Ennyu- mba bagitisse omuliro. They have set fire to the house. Atamuzadde ye amutikka ejjinja. (prov.) She who has not born it (the child) loads it with a rock. One is aways more solicitous about one's own. Kimutisse. Something has gotten into him. He seems obsessed (e.g., with a great desire to do something).
born, sowole.
mpaganyadde) v.i. be obstinate/stubborn, cf. -waga- nyavu.
zaalibwa (-zaaliddwa) v.i.,pass. be born, etc.
v.tr. seduce; incite; incite to revolt; suborn.
o- (mu/ba) youngest child, last born of the family, lit. close-womb. cf. lggala, enda. contr. muggulanda. deaf person, lit. one whose ears are shut. cf. l ggala, -ggavu.
v.i. resist obstinately; be or become stubborn.
o- (mu/ba) eldest child, first born, lit. open-womb. cf. ggula, enda. cotnr. muggaianda.
abaana ba boowo, free-born people, people of the upper class. cf. waaboffe.
(-googombye) also gogomba v.i. be stubborn; continue unabated.
pr.n. (la) title of the firstborn son of the Kabaka; the name of a former Kabaka.
go wild; revolt. Omwana amagalala bulaia. The child is restless/ stubborn/willfully inattentive.
(la) stubborn/intractible/rebellious person.
o- (mu/ba) infant, newborn child. cf. 2obuwere, nnakawere.
plur. bakaliddalu (la) a stubborn/ recalcitrant/unruly person.
born with another at birth. cf. lomulongo, ssaalongo, ssaabalongo, nnaalongo, nnaabalongo.
native, omukisa orau- zaale, luck/good fortune one is bom with (see yenga). cf. zaala.
ennimi enzaaliranwa, native 1 anguages. cf. zaala, obuzaaliranwa.
stubborn. cf. waganyala.