ekizikiza; (sorrow) obunaku.
be, okulungubala.
etc. Obudde bubabijjiridde. Things have become very gloomy for them.
o- (bu/.) time; weather; occasion, embeera y'obudde, weather, climate, obudde obw'okukyuka, half time (in football). okuzimba ng'obudde, to become sullen/gloomy/inorose lit. swell like the weather. Obudde bukedde. It has dawned. also The time has come (to act). Obudde bwali busse. It was late afternoon.
o- (bu/-) darkness; gloom, cf. -kwafu, kwata.
lit. became unmarriage able in the yard (of her parents). Ensi endibiridde. The whole world looks gloomy to me.
e- no plur. (ki/bi) gloomy, threatening weather (usually in the evening). Kyali kijjaggulwe It was threatening to rain.
e- (ki/bi) thicket; bush, okuzimba nga kisaka, lit. to swell up like a bush = to become sullen/gloomy/morose/uncom- municative. cf. ^akasaka.
e- with the -a of rel. dark, gloomy (of the weather).
e- no plur. (ki/bi) loneliness, lonesomeness; sadness, depression, gloom: anxiety, concern, cf. yobeera.
nnungubadde) v.i. be or look gloomy/sullen (of persons).
swell up; fig. become angry/furious, okuzimba nga budde or okuzimba nga kisaka, lit. to swell up like the weather or the bush, i.e., to become sullen/gloomy/morose/uncommunicative.
be or become swollen (often fig., from anger, sullenness, etc.); take up too much room; be desolate; be gloomy (of the weather), cf. -zimbagavu; zimba, zimbagatana.
v.i. be somber/ gloomy; be cold/unresponsive/indifferent. Amawulire gano gankuba wala era n ensi yonna n'enzinzibalira. This news disturbed me very much and the whole world seemed gloomy to me.
-ewunika (-ewunise) v.i. refl. act or be dejected/gloomy/sad/morose.