kakanyavu, a mputtu, a ggwale.
e ggwale, emputtu.
o- (bu/-) stiffness; dryness (of clothes); coolness, coldness (of food); fig. obstinacy, stubborness. cf. kakanyala, -kakanyavu.
o- (bu/-) hardness; state of not being well done (of cooked food, meat); difficulty; fig. obstinacy, stubbornness. cf. kaluba, -kalubo.
e- (li/ma) stubborness, obstinacy,, argumentativeness, cf. mawaggali.
a- no plur. (ka/bu) obstinacy, stubbornness; craziness.
lit. madness makes him pass beyond.
o- plur. amatu (ku/ma) ear. okumalira amatu wansi, to be sound asleep, be dead to the world, okukuba amatu or okukubaakuba amatu, to become convalescent, kugwa mabeere mu matu, to have a disease of the ear (believed to be caused by the spilling of mother's milk into the ear); to be obsti- nate/stubborn/pigheaded (esp. of children). okutega amatu, to listen attentively. Amatu agataddemu ebisubi. He is deliberately inattentive/refuses to listen, lit. has placed grass in his ears.
a person with large protruding ears; a stubborn, obstinate person.
e- (n/n) obstinacy, stubborness, recalcitrance. ow'emputtu, obstinate person.
e-: okukuba mu mputtululu, to slap on the side of the face, with the -a of rel. Stubborn (but more often mputtu, q.v.).
e- (n/n) string snare, okukuba enkanda wansi, to refuse angrily/stubbornly/flatly.
e- (n/n) madness; ferocity; sullenness; stubbornness, ow'entuuluulu, a person possessing the aforementioned attributes.
mpaganyadde) v.i. be obstinate/stubborn, cf. -waga- nyavu.
v.i. resist obstinately; be or become stubborn.
(-googombye) also gogomba v.i. be stubborn; continue unabated.
go wild; revolt. Omwana amagalala bulaia. The child is restless/ stubborn/willfully inattentive.
(la) stubborn/intractible/rebellious person.
plur. bakaliddalu (la) a stubborn/ recalcitrant/unruly person.
stubborn. cf. waganyala.