okutabula, okugoya, okukologa, okuyimbakanya, okuvuluga. m. up a message, okugombya.
heap together (a mixture of things).
mix up; stir together; mash, mash up; crush. Ebigezo byangoya. I flunked the examination, cf. omugoyo.
e- (ki/bi) mixture; jumble, hodgepodge. as an adv. confusedly, with the -a of rel. mixed, essomero ery'ekintabuli, a coeducational school; a multiracial school. Omwana wa kintabuli. The child is of mixed parentage, cf. tabula.
e- (ki/bi) mixture, variegated pattern. cf. tobeka.
mix up, blend; stir.
interlace; mix.
o- (lu/n) smoldering embers; burning charcoal mixed with ash, used for keeping food warm. Baamuyiwako olunyata. They excoriated him. They rebuked him unmercifully.
o- adv. confusedly, in a mixed-up way. cf. tabika.
o- (lu/n) soft, mushy mixture (often, but not always, of food), cf. tabuka.
a- plur. a mixture of wheat flour, yeast and sugar fried into small balls. A single specimen is erindaazi or ekindaazi.
adj. empale matankane, pants of an intermediate length, neither long nor short (such as those worn by returning war veterans), cf tankana.
e- (n/n) a mixture of clay and native medicines formed into a cylindrical shape. It is stored in a dry state and, as the occasion requires, it is mixed with water and used as a medicine, cf. bumba.
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.
e- (n/n) grog, pieces of broken pots ground up and mixed with clay in making pottery, cf. ebisibosibo.
e- (n/n) tumix; quail; gray partridge.
e- (n/n) mixture; patchwork, cf. tobeka.
mix together, mix up; throw into confusion. cf. -tabike, olutabirizo; tabuka.
mix together, mix up; fig. involve. Leka kututabika mu bintu bye tutamanyiko mutwe n'amagulu. Do not involve us in things of which we are utterly ignorant, lit. know neither head nor feet.
of food); fig. be disturbed; be in a state of turmoil. Batabuse. There is a misunderstanding between them.
mix, mix up; fig. stir up; confuse; cause turmoil among; set (people) at variance, okutabula edde- mbe, to disturb the peace, okutabula ennyi- mba, to sing in parts, okutabula abantu, to irritate/bring dissension among people, okutabula ekidduka, to drive a vehicle at great speed, okutabula ennoma, to combine drumbeats, okutabula eddagala, to fill/ compound a prescription.
etc. cf. ekintabuli, olutabu, omutabufu, omu- tabuzi, tabika.
mingle. Mu miti mutobeekerezeemu obumuli. Let flowers be interspersed among the trees. cf. -tobeke, ekitobeko, entobeko.
put different colors and patterns on; mix, mingle.
sustain; plaster; place (a mixture of mud between the reeds of a house under construction prior to the stage described under womaj.
nnyenze) v.tr. stir and dissolve; dilute; mix. okuyenga enfuufu, to stir up dust; to play in the dirt (of children). Omukisa omuzaale gukira omuyengere edda- gala. (prov.) Good fortune/luck is better than that obtained by mixing medicines.
combine; mix; do two or more things at one time. Kati- kkiro yayimbagatanya obufazi n'obulatnuzi bw'emisango. The prime minister had executive and judicial functions, lit. combined ruling with judgment of cases.
throw into confusion. cf. evvulugu,
reject, refuse (e.g., food., a present); abhor, v.i. be taboo/ forbidden. Eddagala lino lizira omunnyu. This medicine cannot go together with/cannot be mixed with salt, ekibala ekizira, forbidden, fruit.
v.tr. turnover; cause to spin; mix up.
shuffle (playing cards, lottery tickets), okucanga omu- piira, to demonstrate fancy footwork in soccer.
o- (mu/mi) mash of sweet potatoes and beans; hodgepodge, heterogeneous mixture; mess. cf. goya.
o- adv. at random, in a mixed- up/unplanned way. Ennyumba enzungu tezi- zimbibwa muvuluugiriro. European houses are not built in an unplanned fashion.
o- (mu/ba) [jSw.3 half-breed, person of mixed blood.
people who are incompatible); mix up, jumble. Leka kugattiriza mirimu. Do not try to do more than one job at a time.
v.tr. unite; put together; combine (different things); mix; harmonize. cf. gatta.
overturn; provoke, annoy.
o- (mu/ba) omutabufu w'obwongo, lit. one whose brain is mixed up, mentally disturbed/insane person, cf. tabuka.
o- (mu/ba) mixer; troublemaker, omutabuzi w'eddagala, pharmacist, druggist. cf. tabula.
(la) conservatism; individualism lit.. I will mix (sorghum with banana juice) in my own (vat in order to make beer). cf. siwa, -ange.
detail, kalonda w'obuzibu, all sorts of difficulties. Emmere y'Omu- zungu ebeera ya kalonda nnyo. The diet of the European is very varied, cf. londa.
-etobeka (-etobese) v.i. refl. become mixed/mingled/intermingled.
join (with). Si kirungi kwetabika mu bintu by'otomanyi. It is not a good idea to get yourself involved in matters which you know nothing about.
amasomero amatabike, coeducational schools, cf. tabika.
-etabula (-etabudde) v.i. refl. mix oneself up; trouble oneself; involve oneself; be in confusion.