n., erangi ya kiragala.

adj., a kiragala; (unripe) bisi;

omuwempe.

enkobyokkobyo;

uncooked (food); be green/fresh; get damp/wet; fig. be naive; be rude.

enku; f. cut green, enkukku; go to fetch f., okusennya, okutyaba, okuziga.

v.tr. provide by way of supplement, add (something different), kugereka nva, to add greens (to the main dish).

e- (li/ma) finely ground powder made from dried greens such as mpindi, etc. Ky'onkoze entungo ekikola ggobe. You have put me in a bad/difficult/sticky situation. n'amanya nti luno eggobe lya kuggwa mu kibya, and he knew that things would turn out just right, lit. the ggobe would wind up in the bowl.

e- (li/ma) type of bitter green which produces white flowers. Okalya dda kadda dda, ejjobyo liddira mu mutwe, (prov.) lit. You eat it now, it comes back afterwards, the jjobyo comes back to the head (by producing gray hair). What you do now produces consequences later.

a- (ka/bu) kind of small green frog.

e- (ki/bi) gruel of crushed green beans, okulya ekiguude, to insult grossly, slander maliciously.

of the color green, olugoye olwa kiragala, a green garment, cf. eddagala, akalagala, olulagala.

e- with the -a of rel. dark green, obukoola obwa kisugga, dark green leaves. cf. nnakasugga, ensugga.

e- (ki/bi) banana tree, Musa sapien- tum; plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca. ow'omu bitooke, a rustic, greenhorn, okukyala n'osimba ekilooke, to overstay a visit, lit. visit and you plant a banana tree, bitooke bye bigwa, the plantain trees fall, a phrase used to intensify a preceding neg. verb and give it a positive meaning. Talya bitooke bye bigwa. He is a tremendous eater. Tadduka bitooke bye bigwa. He is a great runner, cf. ettooke.

q.v.

be slow in cooking; refuse to ripen (of fruit); be stunted in growth (of persons); be silent, refuse to answer; remain motionless (when expected to act); sulk, okukona ku musomo, to fail a course and be obliged to repeat. Embooge ekonye. lit. The mbooge (a green vegetable which cooks easily) has refused to cook. Things have gone completely wrong.

o- (lu/n) kind of evergreen shrub, the leaves of which are highly poisonous. cf. 3skiwoko.

e- (n/n) green sorghum millet used as malt.

e- (n/n) green parakeet; glossy starling.

cf. ekisugga, ensugga.

because of its color, enables it to escape observation.

e- (n/n) type of dark green leaves used as a vegetable, bitter but extremely tasty, cf. ekisugga, nnakasugga.

e- (n/n) kind of fruit like a green berry (synonym for njagi and ntula, q.v.). Ekigere kye kisotta entaligita n'ozirya. Her foot crushes the ntaligita and you (still) eat them, i.e., you like her very much or you think her very beautiful, cf. ligita.

e- (n/n) [Lunyoro~\ morning heat, about 6:15 a.m.; time just after sunrise, ntanyi, e- (n/n) crime/gross violation of traditional customs, ntanyoomwa, e- (n/n) loincloth, ntanzi, e- (n/n) green pigeon, cf. entawuuzi.

(n/n) green pigeon, cf. entanzi.

e- plur. of oluva, q.v. green vegetables, sauce, relish, etc., eaten with the main dish. cf. obuva.

kaamukuukulu; green p., entawuiizi.

e- (li/ma) kind of long, greenish- brown poisonous snake, lit. cut-down-the- monkey. cf. tema, enkima.

green grasshopper.

(la) type of plant with small yellow flowers and grayish-green leaves; with cop. the nameof a lubaale; a common given name for women; the name of one of the hills of Kampala on which the Anglican Cathedral is located.

o- (mu/ba) incompetent person, person with no experience; greenhorn. cf. -katagga.

o- (mu/ba) woman; wife (less respectful than mukyala). omukazi ow'omu- kono, a woman who is always successful in growing plantains, vegetables, etc., a woman with a‘green thumb.' cf. -kazi, kaziwala, omukazi, amakazi.

e- (n/n) kind of green grasshopper. omusolo gw' ennenzigenzi, tribute extracted from travelers for right of passage. cf. genda.

cf. ekikaabugo.

ignorant; rude, uncultured, ennyanya embisi, an unripe tomato, cf. bisibisi, bisiwala, obubisi.