obubi, ennaku.

o- (bu/-) darkness; hardship, pressure, difficulty; uncertainty, cf. guba.

e- (ki/bi) hole/bump in a road; fig. hardship, cf. sirikka, akasirikko.

ndabye) v.tr. see; perceive; find; get; greet, v.i. be conscious; be alive; be awake; be alert/perceptive, kulaba nnaku, to suffer greatly, experience hardships, kulaba binene to experience major troubles/difficulties, butaiaba muntu, to be proudly contemptuous of someone. kutuuka walaba, to attain a high station, get oneself in the limelight, kwessa

na min(y)igo: adv. phrase with hardship/difficulty.

(la) person in hardship/misery. cf. -naku.

o- (mu/mi) difficult situation/job; hardship; a ‘strain.' cf. leega.

o- usually plur. emiroboli (mu/mi) trouble, hardship; vexation; problem.

adv. with difficulty/hardship.

difficulty, hardship.

hardened person capable of hardship, pain, etc. cf. guma, omutwe.