e- (ki/bi) [Stf.] iron; metal; factory; machinery; machine; tool; device, ekyuma ekikuba ebifaananyi, camera, ekyuma eki- yimbisa amavinja, record player, ebyuma ebirima, farm machinery, ploughs, tractors, ekyuma kya ppamba, cotton ginnery, ebyuma ebikuba ebitabo, printing presses. Ngudde ebyuma or Ebyuma binsaze. colloq. I am completely out of money. I am broke. cf. 2akuuma, oluuma.
o- adv. like food. Ekyuma ekyo kiyitirivu mu kusa amayinja, kigalya bumere. This machine is very effective in crushing stones, it smashes them to bits, lit. eats them like food. cf. emmere.
o-: mu bigambo by'obuuma, in money matters, obuuma is the plur. of 2akuuma, the dim. of ekyuma, q.v. for further meanings.
blow on. oku- fukuta emivubo, to blow with a pair of bellows. okufukuta amazzi, to gargle with water, okufukuta ekyuma, to melt metal (e.g., with a blowtorch), kuwoza gufukula, to talk nonsense (gu- implies muliro, fire), kufukuta lulimi, to speak a language (usually English) fluently. Bwe yatuuse mu dduuka n'afukutira omutunzi Oluzungu nga gw'alufukutira talina ky'aggyamu. When he arrived in the store he spoke English to the salesman, but the person to whom he was talking did not get anything out of it.
ekyuma ekikola.
ekyuma.
ekyuma, ekkalwe; (ore) amatale; (cast) ebbumba; (pig) omusinga; i. for clothes, ppaasi.
e- (li/ma) iron; steel, ekyuma ekya kkalwe, steel.
a- plur. obuuma (ka/bu) small ma- chine;tool; instrument; device, cf. ekyuma.
o- (lu/n) metal wire, oluuma olubaka, aerial (of a radio or television set). abajja bagoba oluuma, immigrant workers, lit. those who come following the telephone cable lines, cf. ekyuma.
ekyuma; sewing m., ekyalaani.
vide ekyuma, effeeza, ezzaabu, ekikomo, zebaaki.
ekyuma ekigezza.
ekyuma ekisa.
omukunguzi, ekyuma ekisala omuddo.
e- (n/n) concrete, mortar, ekyuma eki tabu la enkokoto, concrete mixer. Tomala kulya kya munno n'okiyita enkokoto. (prov.) Don't eat your companion's (food) and then call it concrete. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
cause to be or feel cold; dampen, spray (clothes before ironing), ekyuma ekinnyogoza, refrigerator, icebox. Ebi- gambo bye yannamba byannyinyogoza. The things he said to me hurt me very much/disturbed me greatly. cf. -nnyogovu, -nnyogoogerevu, obunnyo- govu, ekinnyogoga.
e- (n/n) jerboa, also called jumping rat, kangaroo rat (see akayozi); kind of silkworm which makes cocoons on mulberry trees, cf. somba, ekyuma.
it., ekyuma ekirima.
n. (printing), ekyapa, ekyuma ekikuba ekyapa.
ekyuma ekisongovu, omuwunda.
n., sseefu, essanduuko ey'ekyuma.
to brand/burn with a red-hot iron.
leave (on a trip), v.tr. lift, raise, okusitula olutalo, to start a fight/battle, okusitula oluyombo/empaka, to start or. argument/verbal conflict, okusitula enkundi, to raise a fuss, start quarreling, ‘raise hell.' okusitula embeera z'abantu, to improve the conditions/raise the standards of the people, okusitula ebbala, to look well, ekyuma ekisitula, elevator, lift.
omuwunda, ekyuma ekisongovu, eriggwa.
to give a look of amazement, be dumbfounded/stunned, lit. like a hunting dog who has thrown off the bell attached to him (used to signal the hunters).
deliver; walk/go with/by means of. okutambuza ebigere, to go on foot, okutambuza eggaali, to go by bicycle, okutambuza amaaso, to let one's eyes wander, okutambuza essimbo, to walk with dignity, okutambuza ekibiina, to direct/ run an organization, okutambuza ekyuma, to operate a machine, okutambuza omutwe, to slip off of the bed while sleeping. Kati atambuza omwaka gwe ogwa 42. He is now in his 42nd year.
ekyuma ekizimbu- lukusa, magnifying glass, galubindi ezi- mbulukusa, microscope. cf. ekizimbulukusa; yimbulukusa.