omugabi.

a kisa, omugabi (n.).

omugabi.

give all the time; feed, take care of (a child). Omwana atalijko amugabirira takula bulungi. A child who does not have someone to feed him does not grow up well.

o- (mu/ba) generous person, liberal person; one who distributes, distributor. omugabo w'awata, milk distributor (mu/mi) divisor in arithmetic, cf. gaba.

-eseera (-esedde) v.i. refl. overcharge oneself; shortchange oneself. Omugabi teyeeseera. (prov.) (Even) a generous person does not disregard his own interests.

take; expose oneself; give oneself up. okwegabulira abalabe. to expose oneself to the enemy. cf. obugabe, obugabi, omugabanyi, omu- gabe, omugabi, omugabo, omugabuzi; gabangula, omugabanguzi.