ekita, endeku, empaawo, eŋŋunda, ensaabo; vide gourd

adj. huge, very big. ekita kabogolole, an extremely large calabash.

a- also akalibuzo (ka/bu) small piece of calabash used to smooth soft pottery.

a- (ka/bu) small hole in a calabash/gourd.

e- (ki/bi) short-necked calabash. amazina ag'ekibundibundi, mock/ humorous dancing.

e- (ki/bi) large calabash/gourd. c f. ^akata.

e- (ki/bi) large open calabash; piece of calabash used by potters to smooth clay; fig. foolish/stupid person. cf. oluwaawo, empaawo.

e- (ki/bi) container used for milking cows foriginallv aovlied only to those made of wood, calabashes and gourds).

0- (lu/n) Luganda, the language of Buganda; without caps, brotherhood; relationship. ow'oluganda, relative, relation; member of a brotherhood, amawanga agali mu luganda olumu ne Bungereza, the British Commonwealth, plur. ejinanda, relations, relatives. Ab'oluganda bita, bikonagana ne bitayatika. (prov.) Relatives are like calabashes, they knock together but do not break. Blood is thicker than water, cf. Obuganda, Omuganda, sseruganda.

o- (lu/n) sausage-shaped calabash in which articles are kept.

o- with the -a of rel. wide-mouthed (of calabashes).

o- (lu/n) open calabash or gourd used as a tumbler for drinking, kwemalamu ng'ogw'oluwa a wo, to act to excess (often used of talking or laughing), lit. empty oneself like the beer(omwenge implied by ogwa) of a tumbler, cf. ekiwaawo, empaawo.

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- with the -a of rel. half full (esp. of containers of water or beer). Omwenge yaleela gwa luzunzo. He brought a halffilled calabash of beer. cf. zunga.

a- plur. (li/ma) kind of very strong beer which is fermented in a calabash inside of the house.

e- plur. (mu/mi) net of banana fiber in which calabashes are kept.

e- (n/n) bowl-shaped calabash or gourd used as a tumbler for drinking, empaawo enzungu, drinking glass, cf. ekiwaawo, oluwaawo.

lit. chief's gourd.

e- (n/n) bottom of a calabash; fig. problem, issue; grudge, okusitula enkundi, to come out forcefully, kick up a fuss, raise hell, okuleeta enkundi, to come with great force; to present/constitute a serious problem, be of great gravity. Mmongoota aleese enkundi. The sleeping-sickness epidemic is really striking hard. cf. ekkundi, omukundi.

e- (n/n) calabash with a long neck and no bulge at the top.

e- (n/n) calabash with a long, narrow I neck.

(la) kind of very strong homemade beer which is fermented in calabashes.

e-: endeku eŋŋunda, long-necked calabash often used by old men for drinking beer.