e- plur. amaliba (li /ma) skin; hide; cover (of a book or magazine). Lugaba yabuggyako eddiba. [t dawned. Dawn came, lit. God took the skin/covering off of (day, daytime, implied by -bu- = obudde). okufuna ekigulira Magala eddiba, to make money, get some money, get something profitable. Bwe batusiba mu ddiba erimu tuliyuza. We just do not get along. We are mutually incompatible, lit. if they tie us in one skin we will tear it open (an almost hopeless feat), cf. ^akaliba, ekiriba.

n., eddiba, ekyanjo.

a- (ka/bu) small skin/hide. cf. eddiba.

e- (ki/bi) large hide/skin. cf. eddiba.

n., eddiba.

o- no plur. (Iu/n) something large/ immense, with the -a of rel. large, immense, huge, olwataata lw'eddiba ly'empologoma, a huge lion skin.

skin; maliba, skins.

eddiba; foetal m., ensungwe, ensawo y'abaana.

wear around the shoulders. Yanagira omunagiro gw'eddiba ly'engo. He wore a leopard-skin cape. cf. omunagiro.

e- from eddiba, skin, hide, okucanga endiba, colloq. to play soccer.

n.y eddiba, olukuta, olususu. hard s., ekikuyiro. cast off s. (of snake), ekiyubwe. s. garment, oluveera, ekisaato, ekijagali, enkenga, enkete. s. used as mat, enkeeto. s. disease, olukuku, ebisukko; vide rash. escape by the s. of one's teeth, okweyokola emisinde.

ekinaagu- lira Magala eddiba, money, lit. that which will buy a skin for Magala.

(la) scrapings of flesh taken from the hide of an animal when readying it for drying.