Kirundi Study & Dictionary

il ▶

he ▶ wē, wēwe
(in contrast to another) weho
(he says) ngo, ati

En-En dictionary

il y a longtemps ▶

long ago ▶ kēra

En-En dictionary

ilitero (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ liter

-angu adj ▶ diluted (esp. milk or beer)

-novu adj ▶ 1. delicious, 2. pure, undiluted (esp. beer), 3. dense

-okeje adj ▶ grilled, roasted (from kwōtsa)
ibitoke vyokeje roasted bananas

-ri v ▶ is, are (verb without infinitive or past)
-rimwo contains
irahari available

agacerere 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) silence

agahēngekezo 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) little place of refuge, narrow escape, remnant of clan or family

agahwēkēre 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) stillness, quiet

agaseba (udu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ 1. bubbling of water in spring, or boiling, 2. sifter to sift out chaff

agashāngāra 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) syphilis

agashitsi 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) 1. chill, 2. trembling
guhīnda agashitsi to tremble, shake, shiver, to have a chill

agataka 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ (no pl.) soil, earth

akabarore (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ evil example, notorious character

akadegedege (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ child learning to walk, toddler, kid

akagūma (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ 1. joker, teaser, gossiper, 2. mild revolt

akamanuko (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ descent, slope of hill (pl. rare)

akamāramāza (-māramāje) (utu-) v 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ embarrassment, shame, humiliation

akamwemwe (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ smile

akāna (ut-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ little child (from umwāna)

akarēre 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ 1. desert, 2. wilderness

akarorero (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ example, illustration, model

akarwi (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ group of people, pile of wood

akayungiro (utu-) 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga-
plural: utu-,udu- ▶ 1. filter, 2. grill, broiler, 3. gridiron

akēnese 7 class 7
singular: aka-,aga- ▶ 1. hatred or jealousy among members of a polygamous family, 2. projection of any kind of building (such as church tower, comb on house, etc.)

amabērebēre 5 ▶ breast milk

amaborōgo 5 ▶ wailing, mourning (from kuborōga)

amāgage 5 ▶ 1. uvula, palate (soft), 2. tonsils

amakuyano 5 ▶ buttermilk

amamesa 5 ▶ (Sw.) palm oil

amarembe 5 ▶ 1. peace, 2. tranquility (greeting: n'amarembe)

amarūru 5 ▶ wailings

amarwi 5 ▶ 1. front teeth, 2. swarm (bees, etc.), 3. piles of grain

amata 5 ▶ milk

amaterere 5 ▶ buttermilk

amatererwa 5 ▶ skimmed milk

amavuta 5 ▶ butter, oil

birariziyoze 3 class 3
singular: i-,in- ▶ billharcia

bitangāje phr ▶ fantastic, astounding, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, stunning, breathtaking, sensational, remarkable, spectacular, extraordinary, wonderful, marvelous (from gutangāza)

Bujumbura 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ largest city and former capital of Burundi, originally called Usumbura, it was renamed to Bujumbura at independence, mainly for the negative meaning of Usumbura in Swahili

gucereza (-cereje) v ▶ 1. to be silent, 2. to silence

guciririka (-ciriritse) v ▶ to be energetic, agile

gucudika (-cuditse) v ▶ 1. to be reconciled, 2. to have fellowship or friendship with

gucūmbika (-cūmbitse) v ▶ 1. to camp, 2. to stay temporarily

gucumukura (-cumukuye) v ▶ 1. to suffer, to have pain, 2. to fail, 3. to be in distress, 4. to work hard

gucuncubura (-cuncubuye) v ▶ 1. to dump all out at once, 2. to spill

gucurikanya (-curikanye) v ▶ to speak evil of one another

gufūha (-fūshe) v ▶ 1. to breathe heavily and noisily, 2. to yearn over, 3. want one thing and that alone, 4. to purpose to revenge

gufungura (-funguye) v ▶ 1. to dine, to eat (used of people), 2. serve food, 3. to dilute

gufunguza (-funguje) v ▶ 1. to ask for food or drink, 2. to dilute with

gufūrēka (-fūrētse) v ▶ 1. to smoke (e.g. green wood), 2. to breathe with difficulty (child)

guhakwa (-hatswe) v ▶ 1. to almost meet with accident but barely escape, 2. to be similar but not exactly the same

guhānda (-hānze) v ▶ 1. to prepare ground (for amasaka), 2. to pierce, scratch (e.g. with nail)

guhānjagira (--nje) v ▶ to compel someone to do something against his will

guhāta (-hāse) v ▶ to compel someone to do something against his will

guhāza (-hājije) v ▶ 1. to satisfy, 2. to finish milking a cow

guhemuka (-hemutse) v ▶ 1. to fail to keep one's word, 2. to disappoint, 3. to betray a secret

guhemukira (-hemukiye) v ▶ 1. to disappoint, to fail another, 2. to deceive

guhēndana (-hēndanye) v ▶ 1. to deceive each other, 2. to be a skillful deceiver

guhēngeka (-hēngetse) v ▶ 1. to lay a thing on its side, 2. to tilt, to turn, 3. to slant (vt)

guheza (-heje) v ▶ 1. to finish, to complete, to end (vt), 2. to achieve, 3. to conclude, 4. to exhaust
(often used for 'then' when one action is directly followed by another, e.g. Umwigisha ahanura abana, araheza arabasezera = the teacher admonished the children, then he bid them goodbye)

guhīnda agashitsi (-hīnze) phr ▶ 1. to tremble, shake, shiver, shudder, quiver, 2. to have a chill

guhindaganywa (-hindaganywe) v ▶ to have a chill with goose pimples

guhindikirana (-hindikiranye) v ▶ 1. to fall down together (usually in fright), 2. to become ill one after another

guhīngūra (-hīngūye) v ▶ 1. to answer (as on exam), 2. find the solution, 3. to repair or improve another's work, 4. to exercise an art, trade, 5. be skillful, to perfect, 6. to return from running away

guhōmba (-hōmvye) v ▶ 1. to be fragile (esp. of clay pot), 2. to be poorly made, 3. to lose, make no profit

guhona (-honnye) v ▶ 1. to perish, 2. to be sterile

guhongorora (-hongoroye) v ▶ to cause to fall noisily

guhonoka (-honotse) v ▶ to rain heavily

guhora (-hoze) v ▶ 1. to cool (food or liquid) (vi), 2. to always do, continue, be eternal, 3. to be silent, become calm

guhorereza (-horereje) v ▶ 1. to appease, calm, 2. to silence

guhorōrwa (-horōwe) v ▶ to refuse to speak (bride) until given money

guhumāna (-humānye) v ▶ to be dirty, unclean, defiled

guhumānya (-humānije) v ▶ 1. to dishonor, 2. defile, make unclean

guhumānywa (-humānijwe) v ▶ to be defiled

guhumbira (-humbiye) v ▶ 1. to cut trees for building, 2. gather building materials

guhumbirira (-humbiriye) v ▶ to get building materials at, for

guhumbiza (-humbije) v ▶ to help gather building materials

guhūmura (-hūmuye) v ▶ 1. to become calm, 2. to recover from fear or anger, 3. to be old but still strong

guhusha (-hushije) v ▶ 1. to aim and miss, 2. fail to find

guhūza inama (-hūje) phr ▶ to take council together

guhwibira (-hwibiriye) v ▶ to be twilight time

gukaba (-kavye) v ▶ to dry up, wither, wilt

gukabika (-kabitse) v ▶ to cause to wilt, dry up

gukabirana (-kabiranye) v ▶ to wilt

gukacagira (-kacagiye) v ▶ to walk noisily

gukacakaca (-kacakace) v ▶ to walk stealthily

gukama (-kamye) v ▶ 1. to milk, 2. to dry up, 3. evaporate, 4. decrease

gukamira (-kamiye) v ▶ to milk at, for

gukamīsha (-kamīshije) v ▶ to cause to milk, help to milk

gukamwa (-kamwe) v ▶ to be milked

gukana (-kannye) v ▶ 1. to smooth out, stretch out (vt) (as skin for drum), 2. to speak evil of, 3. to threaten

gukānga (-kānze) v ▶ 1. to scare, frighten, 2. to be shiny (as silk cloth)

gukarāngika (-karāngitse) v ▶ to roast easily

gukavya (-kabiye) v ▶ to put food in sun to dry, to dry up (flower, corn silk)

gukebanya (-kebanije) v ▶ to shake down to separate from dirt (e.g. millet)

gukēmūra (-kēmūye) v ▶ 1. to clean, wipe off, wash (esp. body), 2. to butcher, 3. to cut wool of sheep or tail of animal, 4. to cut off top of tree

gukenyuka (-kenyutse) v ▶ 1. to be fragile, 2. to die or break suddenly or unexpectedly

gukina (-kinye) v ▶ 1. to play, 2. to screen (film)

gukoma indūru (-komye) phr ▶ to wail, give cry of alarm

gukomoka (-komotse) v ▶ to be born of a certain family, to come from

gukona (-konnye) v ▶ 1. to cut off, 2. to prune, 3. to castrate, to make sterile

gukōndōra (-kōndōye) v ▶ 1. to succeed in persuading someone to leave his evil ways, 2. to pick squash or corn from stalk

gukōnja (-kōnje) v ▶ to be cold, to chill

gukoragurika (-koraguritse) v ▶ 1. to fall down continually, in abundance (as branches blown down), 2. to run downhill

gukumakuma (-kumakumye) v ▶ to pile together (vt)

gukūndanīsha (-kūndanīshije) v ▶ to reconcile, cause to love each other

gukurirwa (-kuririwe) v ▶ to be about to give birth, to expect (a child)

gukūrwakw ijambo phr ▶ 1. to be teachable, 2. willing to be admonished

gukuza (-kujije) v ▶ 1. to cause to grow, to enlarge, 2. to bring up (child)

gukuzwa (-kujijwe) v ▶ to be caused to grow, to be brought up (child)

gupfūha (-pfūshe) v ▶ 1. to be dull (instrument), 2. to be angry, 3. to breathe heavily (cow)

gupfuma (-pfumye) v ▶ to prefer (as the lesser of two evils), would rather

gupfunagira (-pfunagiye) v ▶ to sob silently

gupfunereza (-pfunereje) v ▶ to cause to eat a lot, to blow up (vt), or fill up (vt)

gupfūsha (-pfūshije) v ▶ to lose one's child (by death)

gusa (-sa) v ▶ to resemble, to be like, to be similar

gusahura (-sahuye) v ▶ 1. to steal, 2. to pillage, 3. to remove everything from burning house

gusanzāra (-sanzāye) v ▶ to scatter (vi), spill (anything not liquid)

gusasagara (-sasagaye) v ▶ to have many children when one is the last of the family

guseba (-sevye) v ▶ to become barren (from lack of fertilizer)

gusegura (-seguye) v ▶ to put head on pillow

gusēmbēra (-sēmbēreye) v ▶ to sojourn (esp. in search for place to build)

gusemerera (-semereye) v ▶ to shout, call from hill to hill

gusēnda (-sēnze) v ▶ to chase away, to drive out (esp. evil spirits)

gusēsa (-sheshe) v ▶ 1. to empty out, 2. to spill, 3. to sprout (millet)

gusēseka (-sēsetse) v ▶ to spill (vi)

gusēsekara (-sēsekaye) v ▶ to run over, spill over, overflow

gusesereza (-sheshereje) v ▶ 1. to penetrate the skin (esp. under fingernail), 2. to hurt another's feelings

gushāhura (-shāhuye) v ▶ to castrate, make sterile

gushikuka (-shikutse) v ▶ to pull out easily (vi)

gushira impungenge (-shize) phr ▶ to have good equilibrium (see impungenge)

gushīrīra (-shīrīye) v ▶ to run out bit by bit till all gone

gushiruka (-shirutse) v ▶ ~ ubute to be zealous, energetic, active, diligent

gushisha (-shishe) v ▶ 1. to be big, fat, chubby 2. to be flourishing (of growing things, child), 3. to be very dirty, unpleasant, repulsive, 4. to tie beans to hedge to dry

gushīshītira (-shīshītiye) v ▶ to pat (child)

gusibanganya (-sibanganije) v ▶ 1. to blot out, dig up, plough badly, 2. to fail to do one's task, 3. to neglect one's work

gusogōta (-sogōse) v ▶ to pierce (in order to kill)

gusuhūza (-suhūje) v ▶ 1. to visit the sick, to visit the family of a deceased person, etc. 2. to go to give things to one whose house has burned

gusūmbana (-sūmbanye) v ▶ to not be equal in height or ability

gusyēgenya (-syēgenye) v ▶ 1. to scrape feet on floor (esp. because of itching), 2. to kick violently (child)

gutaba (-tavye) v ▶ 1. to dig up the earth, 2. to prepare a place for building, 3. to level

gutabāra (-tabāye) v ▶ 1. to help without expectation of reward, willingly, 2. to help in battle

gutabira (-tabiye) v ▶ to fertilize

gutabwa (-tabwe) v ▶ to be prepared for building

gutāna (-tānye) v ▶ 1. to go separate ways, 2. to bring loss or failure, 3. to be unsuccessful, 4. to be unable to do what one attempts, 5. to lose one another

gutanakw ibirake phr ▶ to accuse each other of spoiling a plan

gutēgekanya (-tēgekanije) v ▶ 1. to hesitate between two actions, 2. to have several plans of what to do so that at least one will please the other people, 3. to have two methods of defending yourself, but use the one you hadn't planned on

gutēkereza (-tēkereje) v ▶ to be meek, mild, well-behaved

gutemuka (-temutse) v ▶ 1. to cut easily (vi), 2. to burn easily, quickly, 3. to burn and break off (as tree), log (vi), 4. to slide (earth)

gutēngengera (-tēngengeye) v ▶ to produce heavily or abundantly

gutenzukirwa (-tenzukiwe) v ▶ to begin to feel better after being ill

gutēra igise phr ▶ to make an effort (at childbirth)

gutēragira (-tēragiye) v ▶ to help plant (throw in the beans as other lifts soil)

gutēraterana (-tērateranye) v ▶ to come one by one till there are many

gutēteka (-tētetse) v ▶ to make another feel badly over something he's done, to be easily deceived or mocked

gutetereza (-tetereje) v ▶ to humiliate

gutētērwa (-tētērewe) v ▶ 1. to be made fun of, 2. to be humiliated, 3. to be speechless with shame or fear, 4. to be disconcerted

gutēzūra (-tēzūye) v ▶ to fail to keep one's promise, to let go of what you've started to take or do, to lose interest

gutīmba (-tīmvye) v ▶ to be damp, cold, chilled

gutīra (-tīze) v ▶ to borrow (money or a thing which will itself be returned)

gutītūka (-tītūtse) v ▶ to be despised, despicable, to be worn out (of soil), no longer produce

gutītūra (-tītūye) v ▶ 1. to hate, despise, 2. to disillusion, 3. to cause people to hate that which they had liked, 4. to lose original force, to weaken

gutītūza (-tītūje) v ▶ to cause to lose original force, to cause to disillusion

gutīza (-tīje) v ▶ to lend, loan (that which will itself be returned)

gutobeka (-tobetse) v ▶ to have dirt in (as water or milk)

gutongoza (-tongoje) v ▶ 1. to leave grass and stuff growing in rugo, 2. to let hair grow long, 3. to lend something and not get it back soon, 4. to entrust something to another and it increases while there

gutosōra (-tosōye) v ▶ to remove a foreign article from eye (or, from water, milk)

gutota (-tose) v ▶ 1. to sprinkle 'medicine' around to protect from evil, 2. to be saturated

gutsīndāza (-tsīndāje) v ▶ 1. to stay in one place permanently, 2. to fill up

gutumagura (-tumaguye) v ▶ to hit repeatedly but gently with fist (mother sometimes does it to child)

gutumbūra (-tumbūye) v ▶ 1. to explain thoroughly, speak distinctly, 2. to tell what one has heard while eavesdropping, 2. to stoop

gutūnda (-tūnze) v ▶ 1. to get mildewed, musty, 2. to move things to another place, to unload

gutwīkīra (-twīkīriye) v ▶ to cover well, to veil, to disguise

hīrya ▶ beyond, on the other side (of something but still on this side of river or valley)

ibigirānkana n ▶ willfully, intentionally, on purpose, willingly

ibīngira (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ wolf-like dog (wild)

ibise 4 ▶ 1. childbirth, travail, 2. giving up after trying several times

iburi (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ hill of earth to plant something in

icansi (ivy-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ milk cup

icānzo (ivy-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ small opening in backyard enclosure for emergency exits or used by women and children

icībare (ivy-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ 1. corner of field belonging to each child, 2. possession (esp. fields or lands), 3. chosen people

icōmbo (ivy-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ cooking utensil

icōtero (ivy-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ altar, fire built for cows

icūmba c'abana phr ▶ children's room

idāri (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. ceiling, 2. attic

idūshi (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ slate pencil

ifagitire (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ bill, invoice

ifēza (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ silver

igenya (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ harvest (esp. millet)

igesa (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ time of harvest (millet)

igifwera (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ snail

igihongo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ pile of rocks

igihūmbu (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ 1. illegitimate child, 2. dishonest person, 3. untrustworthy, unwise, 4. one who won't stay home, vagabond, gadabout

igihute (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ boil, abscess

igikīngi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ large stick stuck in ground, pillar, post, gatepost, cord of tongue

igikogoshi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ white worm found in soil, grub

igikōko (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ wild animal, insect

igikombe (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ brow of hill, slopes between two hills

igisafu (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ wild goose

igisōkōzo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ traditional riddle loved by children

igisozi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ very big hill, large mountain

igisubiramuhira (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ woman who has left many husbands and gone home and finally builds at parent's home (same for a man)

igiswahiri 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic- ▶ Swahili language, Kiswahili

igitambamboga (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ child (before he begins to know anything)

igitēza (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ creeping vine (almost impossible to kill)

igitotsi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ foreign article (in eye, milk, water)

igitsūre (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ evil look

igitwengerabarozi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ child (before he begins to know anything)

igitwikirizo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ veil, head covering worn over face

igūmba (i-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ sterile female (human or animal)

ihariri (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ silk, rayon, shiny cloth

ihebe 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri- ▶ ram, billy goat

ihēmbe (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. horn (of animal), 2. lot (in casting lots)
kurwara amahembe illness resembling demon possession

ihūmbi (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ materials for building a house

ikaramu (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ (Sw.) pencil

ikēba n ▶ 1. jealously (esp. between wives of same husband), 2. speaking evil of another with whom you share work

ikibānza (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ 1. place, 2. room (space), 3. building site

ikibi (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ that which is bad, evil

ikibondo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ small child

ikibundugura (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ healthy child

ikibunduguru (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ healthy child of about 4 months old

ikidegedege (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ child learning to walk, toddler, kid

ikigaga (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ 1. populous tribe or family, 2. deformity (from birth), 3. corpse

ikigwati (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ kraal with many houses of members of one family

ikijogojogo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ insect similar to Katydid

ikilometero (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ kilometre, kilometer

ikinege (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ only child

ikinini (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ 1. cinchona tree, 2. tablet, pill (from Fr. quinine)

ikinyabwōya (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ caterpillar

ikinyomoro (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ tree tomato, tamarillo, prune de Japon

ikirēngazūba 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic- ▶ (no pl.) evening (when sun is very low but still visible)

ikiro (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ kilo, kilogram

ikirūndo (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ heap, pile

ikivyārwa (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ illegitimate child, child of mixed marriage

ikīza (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ a calamity (such as a bad disease or plague), severe illness

ikizēze (ibi-) 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic-
plural: ibi-,ivy- ▶ idiot, imbecile

ikoma (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ framework of branches on which smaller ones are interlaced in building a house

ikōmbe (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ in center of the council

imbagarabwenge 3 class 3
singular: i-,in- ▶ philosophy

imbonero (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ pupil of eye

imboni (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ pupil of eye

imfunya (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ child that doesn't grow properly

imfura (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ first-born child

iminyago 2 ▶ 1. captive, 2. booty, spoils, 3. pillage

imodoka (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ car, automobile

impīnga (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ top of mountain or hill

impongano (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. bribe, 2. one who takes place of guilty man

imponnyi (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ last one of family who has no children – thus no heir

impungenge (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ lack of equilibrium, vertigo

imvune (im-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. long garment (trails on ground), 2. break (as bone), fracture

inābi 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ (no pl.) evil (noun)

ināma (i-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. meeting, council, conference, 2. advice, consultation, counsel, 3. agreement, 4. suggestion

indengo (i-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ milling song

indero (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. education, teaching, instruction, training, 2. rearing of children, 3. discipline

indimwe (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ family
abavandimwe family members

indobo (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ bucket, pail

indūru (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ shout of alarm, wail
gukoma induru to wail, give cry of alarm

indurwe (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ gall, bile

indwāra (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ illness, disease

ingāre (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ one who gets cross easily but who gets over it quickly, one who talks a lot (esp. to tell others what to do)

ingoga (i-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. quickness, 2. agility, 3. eagerness, 4. speed, haste

ingōna (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ crocodile

ingūmba (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ sterile female (human or animal)

injugujugu (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ stick thrown to kill bird, etc.

inkerebutsi adj ▶ 1. skillful, skilled, 2. wise

inkīngi (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ large stick stuck in ground, pillar, post, gatepost, cord of tongue

inkūka (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. slope of hill, 2. beach, shore, strand, coast, 3. ransom, redemption price

inkukūra (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ very heavy rain (sweeps away crops or hillsides)

inombe 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ (no pl.) soil with much clay in it

intabarirwa (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. one who doesn't do as he hears he should, 2. disobedient child

intabire (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ fertilizer

intābwa (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. orphan, 2. unwanted child, 3. abandoned wife

intahava (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ permanent thing (stays in family)

intakonywa (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. stubborn person (lit. 'who will not be bent', from kugōnda), 2. extremist

intandara (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ epilepsy

intavyi (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ child beginning to walk

inyamanza (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ wagtail (bird)

inyamāswa (iny-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ 1. wild animal, beast, 2. monster

inyūbako (iny-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ building

inyūbakwa (iny-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ building

inzāra (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ fingernail

inzu (in-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ house, building (plural sometimes also amazu)

ipirire 3 class 3
singular: i-,in- ▶ pill

isage (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ pistil of flower

isahu (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ spoil, plunder

isano 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri- ▶ 1. resemblance, similarity, 2. relationship

isasa (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ floor tile

isaso (ama-) 3 5 sg. class 3: i-,in-
pl. class 5: ama- ▶ 1. grass mattress, 2. tiling (of floor)

isenga (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. cave, 2. perfume, nice-smelling oil

ishetani (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. devil, satan, 2. demon

itanure (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ furnace, kiln

itegūra (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ tile

iteke (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ small edible root similar to yams

itonde (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ nostril, nose

itūntu (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. one who rules others, 2. cheekiness, 3. unwillingness to be told, 4. meanness

itupa n ▶ (no pl.) file (tool)

ivatiri (i-) 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ car, automobile (from Fr. voiture)

ivu 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri- ▶ (no pl.) soil, earth

ivyāra 3 class 3
singular: i-,in-
plural: i-,in- ▶ delivery (of a child), birth

iyugi (ama-) 5 class 5
singular: i-,iri-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. copper or leather shells at the ankles of intōre dancers, 2. white shell charm worn around the neck by eight-born child (called Mayugi)

Kabozambuba n ▶ April (or March)

kimwe adv ▶ similarly, likewise, comparably, correspondingly (from -mwe)

Kiranga 4 class 4
singular: iki-,ic- ▶ (high priest of the Burundian traditional supreme god, mediator between the traditional god and man, today associated by Christians with the devil)
ubuzimuzimu fetishes
igihwēba, igishegu one dedicated to service of ~
kuvōvōta to give oneself to ~
kubāndwa to dance in honor of
kubāndwa to be devoted to his service
guterekēra to worship ~

kubāmbīsha (-bāmbīshije) v ▶ to cause to crucify, to nail with

kubanguka (-bangutse) v ▶ 1. to be easily done, to be quickly done, 2. to do in a hurry, 3. to be active, 4. to be direct, 5. to be skillful

kubira (-bize) v ▶ 1. to boil (vi), 2. to ferment

kubiza (-bijije) v ▶ to boil (vt)

kubobōtereza (-bobōtereje) v ▶ 1. to ask for daily, secretly, 2. to tell something in a kind, easy way

kubōga (-bōze) v ▶ 1. to spit up milk (of baby), 2. to be full, 3. to be overflowing

kuboheka (-bohetse) v ▶ to be easily tied

kuboneka (-bonetse) v ▶ 1. to appear, be visible, to seem, 2. to be accessible, available, obtainable

kubora (-boze) v ▶ to rot, spoil (vi)

kuborera (-boreye) v ▶ to spoil at

kuborōga (-borōze) v ▶ 1. to wail, 2. cry out for help, 3. to moan, 4. rumble in stomach

kuboza (-bojeje) v ▶ to rot, spoil (vt)

kubozwa (-bojejwe) v ▶ to be caused to spoil

kubūngwa (-būnzwe) v ▶ 1. to be wormy, 2. to have weevils

kubura (-buze) v ▶ 1. to lack, 2. fail to find, 3. to miss, 4. to lose control over

kubura Shinge na Rugero (-buze) phr ▶ to lose control, to fail badly (Shinge and Rugero are two strategic hills that Rwanda lost to Burundi in a famous historic battle between the two kingdoms)

kudāga (-dāze) v ▶ 1. to be amused (child), 2. to enjoy oneself

kudayadaya (-dayadaye) v ▶ 1. to be very happy, 2. to be untroubled, 3. go gaily

kudehūra (-dehūye) v ▶ 1. to lose one's zeal or enthusiasm, 2. to fail to do what you intended

kudēndūka (-dēndūtse) v ▶ 1. to die, perish (esp. of one who has been ill for a long time), 2. to break completely (bone) (vi)

kudiridimba (-diridimvye) v ▶ to run like a little child

kudirigiza (-dirigije) v ▶ to hurry (of child only)

kudiririmba (-diririmvye) v ▶ to run like a little child

kudūga (-dūze) v ▶ 1. to go up (as a hill), to ascend, 2. to rise (as bread, or anything containing leaven), 3. to increase

kudūndēga (-dūndēze) v ▶ 1. to be still alive, 2. to be well (often used of old people)

kugaburura (-gaburuye) v ▶ to fail to do what you started

kugambarara (-gambaraye) v ▶ 1. to complain, 2. be disobedient, 3. obey unwillingly

kugaramāngira (-garamāngiye) v ▶ 1. to be a tramp, wander about, 2. fail to give what one promised

kugāsha (-gāshe) v ▶ to spoil (vi) (foods)

kugāshīsha (-gāshīshije) v ▶ to let spoil

kugēnda (-giye) v ▶ 1. to go, to walk, 2. to leave, 3. generally going by any means (driving, sailing etc.)

kugenya (-genye) v ▶ to harvest millet

kugerēra (-gerēreye) v ▶ 1. to go elsewhere, 2. to find new building site

kugereraniriza (-gereranirije) v ▶ 1. to give an example, to illustrate, 2. make a sign, 3. point out the way

kugesa (-geshe) v ▶ to harvest millet

kugeza aho phr ▶ until

kugīrīra (-gīrīriye) v ▶ 1. to have an uncurable disease, fatal, 2. fail to return

kugoba (-govye) v ▶ 1. to nurse from cow, 2. to milk into the mouth

kugoyagoya (-goyagoye) v ▶ 1. to do something unwillingly, 2. to be weak, 3. to limp, 4. to go slowly, 5. to be about to die, 6. to flutter, 7. waver (as flame in wind)

kugūmbaha (-gūmbashe) v ▶ to be sterile

kugurugūmba (-gurugūmvye) v ▶ 1. to pound (of heart), 2. to boil up (water), to blister, 3. grow very fast (child)

kugwagura (-gwaguye) v ▶ 1. to be used but not worn out, 2. to swoop, 3. to be old but still strong (person, garment, etc.)

kugwāra (-gwāye) v ▶ to be ill, to be sick

kujegeza (-jegeje) v ▶ 1. to silence one's opponent by speaking the truth, 2. to astound, astonish, 3. to roll about (vt), 4. throw down, 5. to surprise

kujīsha (-jīshe) v ▶ 1. to weave, knit, tie cow's legs while milking, 2. to make wax for honey (bees), 3. to close doors (used only in speaking of royal palace)

kujīshura (-jīshuye) v ▶ to untie cow's legs after milking

kumadika (-maditse) v ▶ 1. to plate as with silver, 2. to weld, 3. to graft tree, 4. to trade butter for other things

kumama (-mamye) v ▶ to silence by motion of the hand

kumāramāza (-māramāje) v ▶ to make ashamed, humiliate

kumoka (-motse) v ▶ to call out across the hills (implies scorn of one doing it)

kumwemwamwemwa (-mwemwamwemwe) v ▶ to smile (manifest pleasure, but not necessarily show teeth)

kumwenyagura (-mwenyaguye) v ▶ to smile often

kumwēnyura (-mwēnyuye) v ▶ to smile

kumyīra (-myīriye) v ▶ to wipe child's nose

kunegura (-neguye) v ▶ 1. to denounce, 2. to blame, 3. speak evil of, 4. to make fun of, 5. to criticize,

kunengesēra (-nengesēreye) v ▶ to fill to the brim, to surpass others altogether, to be perfect

kunengesēreza (-nengesēreje) v ▶ to fill to brim, give good measure

kuniha (-nishe) v ▶ 1. to groan, to wail, 2. to sigh, 3. to complain

kunōnōka (-nōnōtse) v ▶ 1. to be healthy, have vitality, 2. to be supple, strong (as rope), 3. to be flexible, 4. to be comfortable, 5. to have virility, to be manly, to be homosexual (gay)

kunuma (-numye) v ▶ to be quiet, silent, say nothing

kunyaga (-nyaze) v ▶ 1. to take away from, to take by force, 2. to steal, 3. to pillage

kunyīgīra (-nyīgīye) v ▶ to not grow (plant, child)

kunyika (-nyitse) v ▶ 1. to slide (landslide), 2. to pack down (vi), 3. to come to an end, be completely destroyed (while you are watching, to suddenly disappear as you watch)

kunyinkira (-nyinkiye) v ▶ to work or do unwillingly, complainingly

kunyobanyoba (-nyobanyovye) v ▶ to go stealthily

kuraba (-ravye) v ▶ 1. to dye, color, paint, 2. to faint, wilt

kurabagiza (-rabagije) v ▶ to illuminate

kurabika (-rabitse) v ▶ 1. to wilt, to cause to faint, 2. to be colored, 3. to strike down and almost kill (either person or tree)

kurabūka (-rabūtse) v ▶ 1. to regain consciousness, 2. to revive after being wilted, (vi) fainted

kuragura (-raguye) v ▶ 1. to divine, 2. bewitch, 3. seek to know doer of evil (as witch doctor does), 4. to be a mind reader

kuraguza (-raguje) v ▶ to have witch doctor bewitch another, to have witch doctor to divine, find who did evil

kuramiriza (-ramirije) v ▶ to persist, work hard at, to go steadily forward

kuramiza (-ramije) v ▶ to pour milk down another's throat

kurangaguza (-rangaguje) v ▶ to look at hastily

kurangūra (-rangūye) v ▶ to explain fully till all understand

kurārāta (-rārāse) v ▶ to hurry along (as cows to better pasture, or child stumbling after something he wants), to be unstable, to go from one thing to another

kurārūra (-rārūye) v ▶ to lift up from ground, to raise higher, to take (cows) up hill

kuregarega (-regareze) v ▶ 1. to be weak and floppy, 2. to work carelessly wanting to quit, 3. to work lazily

kurēmba (-rēmvye) v ▶ 1. to be smooth, silky soft, 2. to put forth new leaves, 3. to be fresh, attractive (person), 4. to get well after serious illness

kurēmbeka (-rēmbetse) v ▶ to put 'medicine' about kraal to keep away thieves and evil spirits

kurēmbekurura (-rēmbekuruye) v ▶ to counteract evil medicine

kurēmburura (-rēmburuye) v ▶ to counteract the effects of evil 'medicine'

kurera (-reze) v ▶ 1. to rear a child, 2. to adopt, 3. to tutor, 4. to educate, 5. to take a child in arms

kurerēsha (-rerēsheje) v ▶ to rear a child by means of

kurērēta (-rērēse) v ▶ to go here and there (child)

kurihīsha (-rihīshije) v ▶ 1. to cause to repay, 2. to demand payment, 3. to bill

kurogota (-rogose) v ▶ 1. to speak evil of the king, 2. to blaspheme

kuruhira ubusa (-ruhiye) phr ▶ to give birth to a child who dies at once

kurūnda (-rūnze) v ▶ 1. to pile up, make a heap, 2. to accumulate

kurūndarūnda (-rūndarūnze) v ▶ to pile up, amass a lot

kurwāra (-rwāye) v ▶ to be ill, to be sick

kurwāra amahēmbe (-rwārye) phr ▶ illness resembling demon possession

kurwāragurika (-rwāraguritse) v ▶ to be often ill

kurwāza (-rwāje) v ▶ 1. to nurse an invalid, 2. to make sick, to become ill

kuvīra (-vīriye) v ▶ 1. to flow out, 2. to be spilled, 3. to shed, to pour, 4. to leave from

kuvunagurika (-vunaguritse) v ▶ to be easily broken

kuvūnda (-vūnze) v ▶ 1. to lie around ill long time, 2. to be sedentary, 3. to get moldy (esp. manioc or grass)

kuvūnguka (-vūngutse) v ▶ 1. to crush, 2. to crumb easily, to crumble

kuvura (-vuze) v ▶ 1. to sour (milk), 2. to thicken (vi), 3. to coagulate

kuvyāra (-vyāye) v ▶ to give birth, to beget, to deliver (a child)

kuyagiriza (-yagirije) v ▶ to cause to melt, to shine brilliantly

kuyāmīra (-yāmīriye) v ▶ to feel faint, gradually drift off to sleep while thinking

kuyoba (-yovye) v ▶ 1. to get lost, 2. to err in counting or in speaking, 3. to make a mistake, 4. to speak evil of ruler, 5. to break the law

kuyogera (-yogeye) v ▶ to perish, to be killed unjustly

kuyombayomba (-yombayomvye) v ▶ to go stealthily

kuyōra amazi (-yōye) phr ▶ 1. water purification, 2. to filter water

kuyugayuga (-yugayuze) v ▶ to go from place to place to sit (because of fear, or because others speak evil of you), sit fidgeting

kuzibiranya (-zibiranije) v ▶ to silence, to fall heavily (rain)

kuzibiza (-zibije) v ▶ to silence, to stop up

kuzinga (-zinze) v ▶ to be more skillful than others in play or work (yabazinze)

kuzira (-zize) v ▶ 1. to be forbidden, taboo, to refuse to eat, to despise, 2. to be punished for someone else's wrong doing, to suffer or be punished because of a certain thing, 3. to avenge wrong done to one's family

kuziza (-zize) v ▶ to forbid (because you don't want him to get along well), to harm or kill because of revenge

kuzungagiza (-zungagije) v ▶ 1. to turn around several times, 2. to rock a baby, 3. to agitate, 4. to wag tail

kwāga (-āze) v ▶ 1. to scratch with fingernail, to scratch lightly, 2. to be narrow

kwāga hasi (-āze) phr ▶ to humiliate oneself

kwāmbika ibara (-āmbitse) phr ▶ to spoil another's reputation

kwāmbutsa (-āmbukije) v ▶ 1. to exile, 2. chase far away

kwāmbutswa (-āmbukijwe) v ▶ to be exiled

kwānkira (-ānkiye) v ▶ 1. to refuse to, 2. to be impossible for, 3. to be willful, 4. to be disobedient (very strongly)

kwāruka (-ārutse) v ▶ 1. reach the age of accountability, 2. to grow up

kwemera (-emeye) v ▶ 1. to be willing, to agree to, 3. to admit, to acknowledge, to confess, concur, 4. to accept, 5. to approve, 6. to believe, to believe in

kwengēnga (-engēnze) v ▶ 1. to rule kindly, 2. deal kindly with, 3. to carry very carefully lest it break or spill, 4. to be gentle

kwīca (-īshe) v ▶ to kill, to slay

kwīcana (-īcanye) v ▶ to kill each other

kwīcira (-īciye) v ▶ to kill at, for

kwīcisha (-īcishije) v ▶ to cause to kill, to kill with

kwīdohōra (-īdohōye) v ▶ 1. to get away secretly, 2. sneak out of an argument or obligation, 3. to slip out little by little (of nail, etc.)

kwīgaragura (-īgaraguye) v ▶ 1. to toss and thresh about, 2. to kill oneself

kwīgarukana (-īgarukanye) v ▶ to return of one's will

kwīgarura (-īgaruye) v ▶ 1. to leave off speaking evil and speak kindly, 2. be converted

kwīgenera (-īgeneye) v ▶ 1. to do something of oneself without authority, 2. boast of what one will do, 3. to attribute to oneself

kwīhorera (-īhoreye) v ▶ to be silent

kwīhumanya (-īhumanije) v ▶ to defile oneself

kwīraburanirwa (-īraburaniwe) v ▶ 1. to be pale, 2. to be emaciated, 3. to waste away from illness

kwīrahuruza (-īrahuruje) v ▶ 1. to fail to keep a vow, 2. to do that which you declared you wouldn't

kwirēngera (-rēngeye) v ▶ 1. to carry something on head without using the hands, 2. to take responsibility for something

kwīrimbūra (-īrimbūye) v ▶ 1. to think, to consider, to weigh pros and cons, 2. to acknowledge to oneself one's guilt

kwīrunda (-īrunze) v ▶ to accumulate, pile up (vi)

kwīsegura (-īseguye) v ▶ to lie on a pillow, to make a sick person lean on one

kwīyica (-īyishe) v ▶ to kill oneself

kwīyobagiza (-īyobagije) v ▶ 1. to be unwilling to look one in the face, 2. hide the truth, 3. to promise and then pretend you haven't, pretend it isn't so

kwīyombayomba (-īyombayomvye) v ▶ 1. to go stealthily, 2. to sneak along

kwīyorosha (-īyoroheje) v ▶ 1. to remain still, quit, 2. to be humble

kwīyumānganya (-īyumānganije) v ▶ 1. to be reserved, 2. be unwilling to commit oneself, 3. suffer pain without complaint, be stoical, 4. to go or do reluctantly

kwōmboka (-ōmbotse) v ▶ to walk stealthily

kwongeranya (-ongeranije) v ▶ to break or kill completely

kwōnōna (-ōnōnnye) v ▶ to destroy, damage, spoil

kwōnōnekara (-ōnōnekaye) v ▶ to be spoiled, to deteriorate

kwōrohereza (-ōrohereje) v ▶ 1. to fertilize, 2. soften up soil

kwōrokēra (-ōrokēreye) v ▶ to put skin of dead calf before cow to make her give milk

kwōtsa (-ōkeje) v ▶ 1. to roast in coals, to grill, broil, 2. to bake

kwūbaka (-ūbatse) v ▶ 1. to build, to construct, 2. to be married (euphemism, to build own house is seen as prerequisite of mariage)
Ndubatse, I have built (I am married)
Sindubaka, I have not built yet (I am not yet married)

kwūbakana (-ūbakanye) v ▶ to build together

kwūbakira (-ūbakiye) v ▶ to build at, for

kwūbakīsha (-ūbakīshije) v ▶ to cause to build, build with

kwūbakwa (-ūbatswe) v ▶ to be built

kwūhagira (-ūhagiye) v ▶ to bathe (vt) (originally associated with ceremonial cleansing at time of a death in family)

kwūzura (-ūzuye) v ▶ 1. to be full, 2. be be perfect, 3. to be complete, 4. to be reconciled

kwūzuriza (-ūzurije) v ▶ 1. to fill, 2. to reconcile

kwūzuza (-ujuje) v ▶ 1. to fill, 2. make perfect, 3. to reconcile

kwūzūzwa (-ūzūjwe) v ▶ 1. to be filled, 2. reconciled

mwēne (b-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child of, son of

mwēne nyina (b-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. brother, 2. sister (lit. child of his/her/their mother)

mwēne se (b-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. his, her, their brother, 2. his, her, their sister (lit. child of his/her/their father)

mwēne so (b-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. your brother, 2. your sister (lit. child of your father)

Ndamukiza n ▶ April

ndūbatse phr ▶ I have built (I am married)

niho emph ▶ (emphatic particle placing emphasis on the preceding constituent)
umwana niho the/ this/ that child (emphasizing the child)

ntabwo adv ▶ never, not, will not, won't

nyabugoro n ▶ little house built for spirit of one who has died

nzoza phr ▶ I will come

rwāna adv ▶ childishly

sha excl ▶ familiar term for addressing another (used mostly by men and boys)

shahu excl ▶ familiar term for addressing another (used mostly by men and boys)

sindūbaka phr ▶ I have not built yet (I am not yet married)

ububāsha 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. power, 2. ability

ububi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. evil, 2. ugliness

ububire 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) boiling

ubucumukure 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ toil, labor, distress

ubufashanyigisho 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ facilitation

ubugesera 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) wickedness, skillfulness

ubugūmba 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ sterility, barrenness

ubuhīnga 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) skillfulness, artificial intelligence, computer science etc.

ubuhīrwe (ama-) 8 class 8
singular: ubu-
plural: ama- ▶ 1. blessing, 2. chance, good fortune, 3. privilege, benefit, advantage, 4. fun

ubuhizi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ 1. handsomeness, 2. praiseworthiness, 3. skill, 4. courage

ubuhuku 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) cave, den (of wild animals, as in rocks)

ubuhūmbu 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) evil deeds, wickedness

ubukiru 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) place where steps are cut in hillside, rough place, bumps, hillocks

ubukoyo 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) stoop-shouldered-ness (as result of illness or hunger) (term of scorn)

ubukuba 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. quickness, 2. agility

ubukūmbi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) pile of mixed grain and chaff

ubumuga 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ paralysis, diability, handicap, weakness, lameness

ubupfāsoni 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) nobility

ubupfunya 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) failure to grow properly

uburinganire 8 class 8
singular: ubu-
plural: ama- ▶ equality, equitability

uburire 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ rheum (certain kind of illness of eyes)

uburo 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) millet

ubusage 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. fringe, 2. long hair (with butter and mud in it), 3. lock of hair, 4. corn silk

ubusahuzi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ 1. pillage, 2. thievery, 3. plundering

ubusazi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) folly, willful stirring up of trouble

ubushobozi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) power, ability, strength, potential

ubutīnyānka 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) menstruation, illness of women (hemorrhage)

ubuto 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) childhood

ubutumba 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) little hills, knolls

ubuvumo 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) cave, den (as of wild animal, in rocks)

ubwāna 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) childhood

ubwātsi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. grass, straw (esp. for building), 2. field

ubweruzi 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) evil language (esp. of young girl)

ubwība 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. thievery, 2. time woman spends in house between birth of child and time she goes out

ubwīra 8 class 8
singular: ubu- ▶ (no pl.) 1. twilight, 2. earnestness at a task

uduta 7 ▶ little milk (from amata)

uguhagarara 9 class 9
singular: uku- ▶ standstill, stop, stoppage, arrest, cessation

uguhagarara umutima phr ▶ congestive heart failure

ugusohora 9 class 9
singular: uku- ▶ 1. expulsion, throwing out, 2. traditional ceremony on the sixth day after a child's birth where the baby is presented

ukumenyēra 9 class 9
singular: uku- ▶ 1. experience, 2. knowledge, 3. skill

ukurabikwa 9 class 9
singular: uku- ▶ wilting, fainting (from kurabika)

ukwāha (am-) 9 class 9
singular: uku-
plural: ama- ▶ armpit, armhole, axilia

umucūko (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ weaned child

umuduga (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ automobile, vehicle

umudūgo (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ hill, ascent

umufashanyigisho (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ facilitator

umufūndi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ (Sw.) skilled workman

umufyure 2 class 2
singular: umu- ▶ staring (in evil manner)

umugenyi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ harvester (esp. millet)

umugera (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. sprout, 2. point, 3. nail, 4. sting (of insect)

umugesera (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ wicked person, revolutionary, very skillful person

umugimbi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child up to 8 or 10 years

umugina (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. light yellow, 2. reddish, 3. white ant hill

umugisye (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child 6 or 7 years old

umugoyigoyi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ weak person (because of illness, etc.)

umuhana (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. village, 2. neighbourhood, 3. locality, area around village or dwelling

umuhānga (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. skilled person, 2. intelligent person, 3. eloquent person

umuhērerezi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ youngest child, favorite child

umuhimbiri (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. urchin, child (derogative), 2. street child, street boy

umuhīnga (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ skilled person, master of an art

umuhizi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. handsome or skilled person, 2. courageous person

umuhūnda (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ stick with nail in the end of it, metal on end of spear (not the point)

umujogojogo (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ insect similar to Katydid

umukamyi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ milkman

umukēcuru (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ old woman, widow (not very respectful term, can be used though by little children, or by grandchildren towards their grandmother)

umukeme (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child

umukonotsi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. strong virile person, 2. homosexual person, gay

umukuku (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. ditch, trench, ravine, 2. line, row (of people or animals), 3. herd of animals (tame or wild)

umukurira (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ a weaned child

umuliyoni (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ million

umumanuko (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ descent, slope of hill

umuntu w'inkuba (aba-) phr 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ skillful person

umunyekōmbe (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ member of chief's council who listens to trials

umunyeshure (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ pupil, student (Rw.)

umunyororo (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. chain (by extension, prison), 2. jail

umunyushure (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ pupil, student

umurēmberezi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ one who keeps police occupied while one sought escapes

umurēngera (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ person with many children, great riches, possessions, countless things

umurerwa (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child

umurēzi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. one who rears child, 2. tutor, 3. adopted father

umurēzi w'abana phr ▶ children's nurse

umurīzo (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ tail

umurwa (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ slope of hill, royal place

umuryāngo (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. door, 2. family, 3. clan, kinship

umusahuzi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ pillager, looter, plunderer

umusarani (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. toilet, 2. human dung, excrement, feces

umusego (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ cushion, pillow

umusēngezana (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child of one's brother (if one is a girl)

umusharuro (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ beer or milk with water mixed in

umushēnzi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ heathen person, uncivilized person

umusozi (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ hill, mountain

umusumāri (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ (Sw.) nail, pin

umuumutsibo 2 class 2
singular: umu- ▶ women's dance, characterized by movement of the legs and pelvis but without eroticism, celebrating the birth of a child, Buyogoma region

umutundiro (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ stones, nails, etc., which witch doctor pretends to take from swollen place on body

umutwara (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. leader, boss, 2. driver, pilot (from gutwara)

umuvandimwe (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ family member

umuvūzi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ doctor, one who treats illness

umuyānge (imi-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ plant of sorghum or millet

umuyibigi (aba-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child (boy)

umwāna (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ 1. child, baby, 2. young of animal

umwānda (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. dirtiness, dirt, filth, 2. pollution

umwāngange (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ big round red lily (wild)

umwankanvu (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child starting to know a little

umwankavu (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ young child, starting to know a little

umwerēra (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ milk or beer given to sick person

umwēru (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ brilliance, something spotlessly white

umwīgīshwa (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ pupil, student

umwīshwa (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ child of one's sister (if one is a boy) or woman's brother's son

umwōnōnyi (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ spoiler, someone destroying things

umwūbatsi (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ builder

umwūga (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ 1. craft, art, special skill, 2. occupation, profession

umwuzukuru (ab-) 1 class 1
singular: umu-
plural: aba- ▶ grandchild

umwūzuzo (imy-) 2 class 2
singular: umu-
plural: imi- ▶ reconciliation

urubu (im-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 1. turn, 2. yogurt, sour milk (clabbered, unskimmed), 3. sour taste

urubura 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) hail

urudubi (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ that which a person says or does for which he may be convicted, result of failure to keep promise, dilemma, difficulty

urugerēro (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ new building site

uruharabuga (imparabuga) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ barren place, bare place on a hill

uruhīmbi (impīmbi) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ table, shelf (for milk containers)

uruhorwe 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) unmixed beer (undiluted)

uruhuni 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) forgetting one's skill or errand

urukīnja (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 1. council, 2. circle of people

urukurukuru (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ blackmail

urumāmbo (i-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ nail, peg

urunombe 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) soil with much clay in it

urunyago (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 1. captive, 2. booty, spoils, 3. pillage

ururēmbēko (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 'medicine' smeared about kraal to keep away thieves and evil spirits

ururo 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) one head of millet

urusengero (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ church (building)

urushāna 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ (no pl.) principal rainy season (April)

urusīma 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ illness where abdomen swells and fills with fluid

urusīna 6 class 6
singular: uru- ▶ illness where abdomen swells and fills with fluid

uruti (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 1. column, pillar 2. shaft (of a spear)

uruzingo (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ sickly child

uruzogi (in-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ umbilical cord

urwāra (inz-) 6 class 6
singular: uru-
plural: in- ▶ 1. fingernail, 2. toenail, 3. claw, 4. hoof

Usumbura n ▶ (Sw.) former name of Bujumbura before independence, changed to Bujumbura because of its negative meaning in Swahili

yambi excl ▶ hello (greeting to small children or of women among each other)
yambiiii (emphatic greeting to small children or among women)

accomplice ▶ (one who keeps police accupied while one sought escapes) umurēmberezi

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accuse ▶ kwāgiriza, kurēga, kwitwarira
(falsely) kudendereza
(each other of spoiling a plan) gutanakw ibirake

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acknowledge ▶ kwemera
(refuse to ~ one's wrong) kudadarara
(to oneself one's guilt) kwīrimbūra

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admonish ▶ (to) guhanūra
(be willing to be admonished) gukūrwakw ijambo

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adopt ▶ (a child) kurera
(a habit) gutōra

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age ▶ (to reach age of accountability) kwāruka
(to begin to get wrinkled with age) gukāmba
(old age) ubukuru, zabukuru

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alive ▶ –zima
(to be still alive, of old people) kudūndēga

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amused ▶ (to be, child) kudāga
(to be secretly) gutwēngera mw ijigo

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animal ▶ (domestic) igitungano
(wild) igikoko, inyamāswa
(male in heat) ishāshi
(of nice disposition) ikirende
(track of) umwānza
(truly animal) bukōko
(young of) umukāngara
(young of small) imbūnda
(antelope) impōngo
(small antelope) ingeregere
(bat) agahūngarēma
(bear) idubu
(buffalo) imbogo
(young bull) ishūri
(male calf) ikimasa
(camel) ingamiya, ingameya
(cat) akayabo, akayabu
(chameleon) uruvo, uruvuruvu
(cheetah) igikara
(civit cat) icūya
(crocodile) ingōna
(deer) impōngo
(dog) imbwa,
(female) imbwakazi,
(wolf-like wild) ibīngira
(donkey) indogoba, indogobwe
(elephant) inzovu
(ferocious) igisimba
(fox) imbwēbwe
(frog) igikere
(gazelle) ingeregere
(giraffe) umusumbarembe
(goat) impene,
(male) impfīzi,
(young male goat) agasugurume
(goats) intūngwa, igitūngwa
(hare) urukwāvu
(hippopotamus) imvubu
(hyena) imfyisi
(jackal) imbwēbwe
(kid, lamb) umwāgazi
(lion) intāmbwe, intare
(lizard) umuserebanyi
(mongoose) isambwe
(monkey) inkēnde, imamfu
(puppy) ikibwāna, imbūnda
(python) isato
(rabbit) urukwāvu
(ram) isuguru
(rat, mouse) imbeba
(rat, cane) isiha
(sheep) intāma, intūngwa, igitūngwa
(toad) igikere
(weasel) akarīnda, akagomba
(zebra) imparage
(to give salt to domestic ~) kwūhīra
(to lead to drink) gushōra
(to stake out to pasture) kuzirika

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ant ▶ (flying, edible) iswa
(pincher) intozi, urutozi
(soldier) uburima
(sugar) ikinywabūki
(tiny) ubunyegeri, urunyegeri
(white) umuswa
(white ~ hill) umugina

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April ▶ ukwēzi kwa kane, Ndamukiza, Kabozambuba

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arm ▶ ukuboko, ukuboke
(upper) ikizigira
(left ~) ukuboko kw'ibubamfu, ukubamfu
(right ~) ukuboko kw'iburyo, ukuryo
(to raise one's ~, to strike, to pull a bow) kubangurira
(to stretch out) kurāmvura
(to take a child in ~) kurera, gukīkira

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art ▶ (skill) umwūga

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ask ▶ (another to repeat to check his veracity) gucaca
(each other) kubazānya
(each other to explain) gusiguzānya
(each other riddles) gusōkōrānya
(for) gusaba
(for daily) kubōbōtereza
(frequently) gusabiriza
(many in order to verify) gushīshōza
(many questions) kubazagiza
(of someone that which he has promised) guhāngūra
(oneself) kwībaza, kwītsa
(over and over again) kubaririkiza
(persistently, though refused) gucuna
(question) kubaza
(a riddle) gusōkōza
(stupid questions) kudedēmvya

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avenge ▶ guhōra
(wrong done to one's family) kuzira

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bare ▶ (place on hill) uruharabuga

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barren ▶ (to be, person) kugūmbaha
(plants) kurūmba
(place) uruharabuga
(thing, corn, etc.) ikirūmbirane
(to become from lack of fertilizer) guseba

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bear ▶ (children prolificly having been barren) guhonōka
(fruit) kwāma
(fruit abundantly) gutēngerera
(greetings) gutāsha
(to cause to ~) guhonōra
(cease to ~) kwāmurura

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beer ▶ inzōga
(fresh, with froth) umubira
(banana) urwārwa, urwāgwa
(sorghum) impeke, indimwa
(given to sick person) umwerēra
(sharp, anything fermented) inkarisha
(undiluted) uruhorwe
(mixed with water) umusharuro
(to beg for) kuvūmba
(to put in a warm place) gutara

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bewitched ▶ (illness of one who acts like crazy) indwāra y'ibitēga

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big ▶ -nini
(to be too) gusāguka, kudēnda
(to be, of growing things, esp. child) gushisha

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bird ▶ ikiguruka
(little ones) inyoni
(crane, golden-crested) umusāmbi
(crow) igikōna
(dove) intunguru, inuma
(duck) imbati
(eagle) inkona, inkukuma, ikinyakabaka, impūngu
(goose, wild) igisafu
(hawk) igisiga
(kite) ikinyakabaka
(parrot) gasuku
(partridge) inkwāre
(robin, African) inyōmvyi
(that sucks honey, black with red throat, or metallic green) umunūni
(wagtail) inyamanza

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birth ▶ ivuka
(to give ~) kuvyāra
(to be about to give ~) gukurirwa
(to be about to give ~, of cow) kudigiriza
(to give ~, to litter, esp. dog) kubwāgura
(to come to day to give ~) kuramukwa
(to give ~, to child who dies at once) kuruhira ubusa
(to aid woman in childbirth) kuvyāza

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bit ▶ (not a ~) n'intete
(to run out ~ by ~ till all is gone) gushīrīra

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blackmail ▶ urukurukuru

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blocs ▶ (buildings) ibigabane vy'inyubakwa

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boast ▶ kwīmānya, kwīrāta
(of what one will do) kwigenera
(over another) kudigiriza

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boil ▶ (vi) kubira
(vt) kubiza
(up water) kugurugūmba
(medical, noun) igihute

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born ▶ (to be) kuvūka
(of) kwāmuka
(of a certain family) gukomoka

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breast ▶ ibere, ibisusu
(to dry up) gucūka
(milk) amabērebēre

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breathe ▶ guhēma, guhumēka, gukwega impwemu
(hard) guhēmūka
(heavily and noisily) gufūha, gupfūha
(with difficulty, child) gufūrēka

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bride ▶ umugeni
(to give gift to ~, so she will talk) guhorōra
(to refuse to speak till given gift, ~) guhorōrwa

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brim ▶ (of dish, container) imbiga
(to fill to) kunengesēra
(to be full to) gutētera

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bring ▶ (to ~) kuzana
(back) kugarura
(back from far away) guhabūra
(back wife after she's gone home) gucūra
(down) kumanura
(down bee hive) kwegura
(from dark into light) kwāndagaza
(from hiding) kunyegurura
(greeting) gutāsha
(in passing) guhitana
(into open from hidden place) kwātura
(loss or failure) gutāna
(new kind of seeds or cattle into country) kurondōra
(out of hiding) gufurūra
(quickly) gutebūkana
(things in from sun) kwāmura
(things and put them together to give to someone) gusorōranya
(to pass) gucimbataza
(together) gukoranya, gutēranya
(up child) gukuza, kurera
(water) kudahira, kuvōma
(with one) kuzanana

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broil ▶ kwōtsa

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broken ▶ (to be easily) kuvunagurika
(to be suddenly) gukenyurwa
(to bits) kujānjagurika

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brow ▶ (of hill) igikombe

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call ▶ (to ~) guhamagara
(in sense of name) kwīta
(continuously and persistently) kuvumereza
(for help) kwāmbaza, gutābaza, gutaka, gutakāmba
(from hill to hill) gusemerera
(loudly for help) gutakāmba
(across the hills, implies scorn of one doing it) kumoka
(to one who cannot answer) gucurīra

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carry ▶ guterura, gutwāra
(away, as water does) gukubebera
(carefully, lest it break or spill) kwengēnga
(for) gutwāza
(in basket, person not sick) kurerura
(on back) guheka
(on head) kwīkorera, kwīremeka
(on head, without using hands) kwirēngera
(and put down frequently) gusengenyeza
(water) kuvōma

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cave ▶ isenga, ubuhūku
(of wild animals) ubuvumo

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chaff ▶ umuguruka, umurāyi
(fan to blow off) urutaro
(mixed with grain) ibikūmbi
(pile of chaff and grain) ubukūmbi
(to blow out) kugosōra
(to rub grain to take off) kuvūngura

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charm ▶ (heathen) igihēko
(heathen, worn on head) urugori
(used by witch doctor) urukorōnko, inkorōnko
('medicine' smeared about kraal to keep away thieves and evil spirits) ururēmbeko
(spell, hex) amarozi
(white shell worn by children) iyugi

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chase ▶ (away with shouts) kwāmira
(away) guhīnda, kwīrukana, gukinagiza, kwāmbutsa
(away because of hatred) gutuza
(away evil spirits) gusēnda
(flies off cows) kuzīnga
(hunt) guhīga
(others out of house) guturumbura
(out quickly) guhasha

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child ▶ umwāna, umugisye, umukeme, umurerwa
(before he begins to know anything) igitambamboga, igitwengerabarozi
(disobedient) intabarirwa
(first-born) imfura
(healthy, about 4 months) ikibunduguru
(illegitimate) igihūmbu, ikivyārwa
(learning to walk) ikidegedege, intavyi
(male) umuyibigi
(of) mwene
(of mixed marriage) ikivyārwa
(only) ikinege, umwāna w'ikinege
(derogative) umuhimbiri
(small) ikibondo
(starting to know a little) umwankavu
(that doesn't grow properly) imfunya
(unwanted or orphan) intābwa
(up to 8 or 10 years) umugimbi
(weaned) umucūko, umukurira
(youngest or favourite) umuhererezi
(~ care) ubuhinga bwo kurera abana
(~ benefit) imfashanyo y'umuryango

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church ▶ (building) urusengero
(people) ishengero, isengero
(roll) itōrero

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climb ▶ (hill) kudūga
(as tree) kwūrira, gusega
(down) kwūruruka

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cloth ▶ igitāmbara
(large, tied on shoulder) umuhagatiro
(long band of) umugēnde
(made of bark) indemano
(plaid) igitāmbara c'ikigoma
(shiny, silk, rayon) ihariri
(very large) igihūzu, uruhūzu

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commit ▶ (adultery) gusāmbana
(a crime) gucumura
(be unwilling to ~ oneself) kwīyumānganya
(oneself) kuragana
(suicide) kwīgaragura, kwīyahura, kwīyica

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compel ▶ (to) kugōbēra, guhāmbīra, guhāta
(someone against his will) guhānjagira

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confinement ▶ (time woman spends in house between birth of child and time she goes out) ubwība

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contaminated ▶ (to have dirt in, milk, water) gutobeka

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convicted ▶ (to be, acknowledge to oneself one's guilt) kwīrimbūra

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corn ▶ ikigōri
(cob) igitiritiri
(early kind) isega
(kind with big kernel) ikijigo
(ground corn that has first been roasted) igikweme
(silk) ubusage
(tender new) igishōro
(yellow kind) amashigisha
(to shell) guhungura, kuvūngurīsha
(wheat) ingano

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council ▶ ināma, urukīnja
(in center of) ikōmbe

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councilor ▶ (of chief's council) umunyekōmbe

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counteract ▶ (effects of evil 'medicine') kurēmburura
(to poison, to ask for 'medicine' to ~) kurogōza
(overcome or remove an enchantment) kurogōra

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cow ▶ inka
(brownish black) ikirāyi
(gray) uruhīza
(white) igihororo
(~ without horns) imvure
(blood of, to drink) ikiremve
(~ path) umuhōra
(to be at rest) kuvyāgira
(to be many) gusagara
(to be many together) gusasa amahembe
(to ask ~ from one to whom ~ was given) kwōkōza
(to chase flies off) kuzīnga
(to entrust ~s to another and they increase while there) gutongoza
(to get medicine to make ~ like her calf) kwōrokereza
(to lead) kuyobora, gushorera
(to lead to pasture) guturutsa
(to put skin of dead calf before ~ to make her to give milk) kwōrokēra
(to return ~ or calf to one from whom one received a ~) kwōkōra
(to take up hill) kurārūra
(to tie legs while milking) kujīsha

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crumbs ▶ udukorokera, ubuvunguka, utuvunguka
(to become ~) kuvūngagurika
(to ~ easily) kuvūnguka

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crush ▶ gufyonyora, gufyonyoka, kuvūngura
(easily) kuvūnguka
(grain, before grinding) kuvūngagura, kuvūngurīsha
(with hands) kuvūnga
(down) gutsindagira

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cultivate ▶ kurima
(soil, soften up) kwōrohereza

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curdle ▶ (milk) kuvura

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cut ▶ (to ~) guca, gutānya, gukata (Sw.)
(to be ~) gucībwa
(banana leaves) kugombōra
(banana stalk) gutūmbūra, guhānyura
(chop with hoe or other instrument) kujema
(crosswise) kugegena
(down trees left after fire has passed over) gutōngōra
(easily) gutemuka
(easily, grass) kwāhirika
(eyes out) kunogora
(grass) gutema, gukera, gukerera
(grass for use) kwāhira
(grass or brush in order to see path or object) guhūnja
(hair) kumwa
(in big chunks) guketagura
(in even lengths) gucacūra
(in many pieces) guhimbagura
(in pieces) gukebagura
(lengthwise) kwōmānza, gusatura
(meat, finger, etc.) gukeba
(neck of animal) gukerera
(off) gukona
(off branches) gukōkōra
(off tail of animal) gukēmūra
(off top of tree) gukēmūra
(tree) gukera, gutema, guca
(trees for building) guhimbura
(up) gukekagura
(up into small pieces) gukeka
(up small as reeds, boards) gutemagura
(trees or sticks) kugegena
(with one blow) gutemura
(with sawing motion) gukerera
(wood in short bits) kunyuramwo
(wool of sheep) gukēmūra

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dance ▶ intāmbo
(of men) umuhamirizo, ibirorēro, agasimbo, umuyebe
(of women) ihunja, imisambi
(of women, celebrating a child's birth) umutsibo
(of women celebrating the birth of twins) igisuru
(non-traditional, of youth) ubusambiri

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deceive ▶ kudendekeranya, kugūnga, guhēnda, guhūmba, guhumbūra, gukēkeza, kurema, kurementaniriza, guhemukira, gusuka
(~ another to make him give money) kurimānganya
(to ~ each other, be skillful at ~) guhēndana
(habitually) gusukasuka
(in light joking way) guhēndahēnda
(oneself) kwīhēnda, kwībesha
(making others think you've done a miracle when it's only a deception) uburyi

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deceived ▶ (to be easily) gutēteka

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deceiver ▶ umuhumbūzi, umuhūmvyi, umusukanyi
(one who goes about lying) indimanya
(to be a skillful) guhēndana

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delicious ▶ (in sense of undiluted) -novu
(to be) kuryōha
(to make) kuryōsha

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deliver ▶ (sense of save) gukiza
(child) kuvyāra
(to be about to, cow only) kwerēra, kudigiriza
(help to) kuvyāza
(to take something out to an appointed place) gusokorora

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den ▶ (of wild animals) ubuhūku, ubuvumo

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destroyed ▶ (to be) gusiribāngwa, gutikira
(completely while you are watching) kunyika

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die ▶ (to) gupfa, gucīkāna, guhwēra, kuranduka
(of king) gutānga
(esp. of one who has been ill for a long time) kudēndūka
(to be about to) kugoyagoya
(suddenly) kweguka, kugaduka
(suddenly and unexpectedly) gukenyuka
(used of person scorned by others) kwijajara

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diluted ▶ (esp. milk or beer) -angu

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dirt ▶ umwānda, ico, ubucafu
(esp. on body) ubuhoma, imvyiro
(in water) ikirohe
(in water, milk) igitotsi
(to have dirt in water, milk) gutobeka
(to rubb off) guhungura

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dirty ▶ –bi
(to be) guhumāna, gucafura
(to be very) gushisha
(to become, get) kwāndura
(~ oil) amavuta mabi ava mu mashini

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disagree ▶ (to) guhāzāna, kuvuguruza, guhīngāna, gutāta
(one who always disagrees in a council meeting) ikirandamuke

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disease ▶ indwāra
(AIDS) sida
(billharcia) birariziyoze
(boil, abscess) igihute
(burn) ubushe
(bronchitis) indwara yo mu mahaha
(chicken pox) ibihara, agasāma
(diarrhea) ugucibwamwo, uguhitwa, ugucisha epfo
(elephantiasis) imisozi
(epilepsy) intandara
(eyes: certain kind of conjunctivitis) uburire
(fever) inyonko
(goiter) umwīngo
(gonorrhea) igisokoro
(leprosy) imibēmbe
(malaria) marariya, inyonko
(meningitis) umugiga
(mole) isunūnu
(mumps) amasambambwika
(pleurisy) umusōnga
(pneumonia) umusōnga
(recurrent fever) kimputo (Sw.)
(rheum, disease of eyes) ururire
(rheumatism) amakonyera, imisozi, imikuku
(smallpox) akarānda
(sore, little) akarōnda
(syphilis) agashāngāra
(tick fever) kimputo (Sw.)
(typhus) tifusi
(tuberculosis) igitūntu, agatūntu
(ulcer) igikomere
(ulcer, bad) igisebe
(ulcer, pain from tropical) igitema
(wart) isunūnu, intongāngira
(whooping cough) akānira, inkorora y'akanira
(yaws) ibinyoro
(cause of ~ something supposed to be in person making him sick) ibitēga
(person sick with wasting ~) umunywera
(to be a contagious ~) kwāndukira
(to catch contagious ~) kwāndura, kwāndukirwa
(to transmit) kwāndukiza
(to have an incurable ~) kugīrīra
(to improve, begin to feel better) gutenzukirwa

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do ▶ (to) kugira, gukora
(again) kwongera
(always) kwāma, guhora
(anyhow, in spite of) gupfa
(continually) kwāma, guhora
(the dishes) kwoza ivyombo
(even more) kurushiriza
(first) kubānza, gushūza
(forcefully) kwīhanukīra
(habitually) kumēnyera
(have too much to ~) kurēngerana
(the impossible) gufyidikīra
(~-it-yourself) ukugira utugenegene
(housework) kugora
(one's duty) gushimika
(quickly) gukwākwānya, gushōka, gusobaganya, gusūriranya, gutebūtsa
(quickly and carelessly) kuraha
(quickly without thinking) gusimbagurika
(~ not) -ōye (verb without infinitive)
(reluctantly) kwīyumānganya
(a sloppy job) kurēngagiza
(something alone) kwīgūnga
(something by oneself without authority) kwigenera
(something that causes pleasure or amazement) gusamāza
(that which you declared you would not ~) kwīrahuruza
(two things at once) kubāngikanya
(unwillingly) kugoyagoya
(unwillingly and complainingly) kunyinkira
(the washing up) kwoza ivyombo

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dog ▶ imbwa, imbga, intozo, indura, intoberwa
(female) imbwakazi
(wild, wolf-like) ibīngira

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done ▶ (to be easily or quickly) kubanguka
(to have ~) kwīgera
(to have ~ recently) guherūka

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drift ▶ (gradual drifting) akayōmbekēre
(to gradually drift off to sleep while thinking) kuyāmīra

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drink ▶ (anything to be drunk) ikinyōbwa
(sweet banana) umutobe
(soft ~) ifanta
(to ~) kunywa
(to ~, of king) gukamagura
(animals, go to ~) gushōka
(after a meal) kwīshōza
(all there is in a container) kwūgunyuza
(to cease to ~) guhodoka
(from a reed) gusōma
(from hollow of one's hand) kwīyūhīra
(in) kubōmba
(to lead animals to ~) gushōra
(to make one ~, pour milk down throat) kuramiza
(to refuse to eat and ~ with) kunēna
(to go where others are drinking in hopes of getting some) kuvūmba

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drive ▶ (a car) gutwara, gutwara imodoka
(~ cows) kuyobora
(it home, enforce what one has said) kuryōherereza
(out, esp. evil spirits) guhasha, gusēnda
(stake in ground) gushīnga

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dry ▶ (vi) kwūma,
(vt) kwūmūtsa, kwūmya
(in sun or near fire) kumūkishirīza
(to be) kugaduka
(to become) gukanyuruka, kwūmūka
(to become too ~ while cooking) kuyēnga
(to put food in sun to ~) gukavya
(to put near fire to ~) gutara
(up) kugaduka, kugangara, gukaba, gukama, gukamya
(up and be stiff, clothes or food) gutetera
(up, breasts) gucūka

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earth ▶ (world) isi
(soil) agataka, ivu
(hard-packed) urutare
(interior of) ikuzimu, i kuzimu
(of reddish brown color) inginagina
(to shake, vi) gutigita
(to slide) gutemuka, kunyika, gusiduka

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eavesdropping ▶ (information gained by) igisokoro
(to tell what one has heard while ~) gutumbūra

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egg ▶ irigi, igi
(boiled) uburyo bwo guteka irigi mu mazi ntirishe nēza
(fried) ijisho ry'irigi
(hard-boiled) irigi ritetse mu mazi
(shell) ikibarara
(tiny) ubugi
(to lay ~) guta amagi

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enjoy ▶ (oneself) kugāzagāza, kudāga (child)

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entrust ▶ kubītsa, kuzēza
(~ to) kurindīsha, gusigarana
(~ flock to another to pasture) kuragiza
(~ something to another and it increases while there) gutongoza

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equal ▶ (to be) kungana, kuringanira
(in length, height) kurēha
(to make ~) kuringaniza, kunganya, kurēhēsha
(to not be ~ in length, height or ability) gusūmbana
(to make ~ in length, height) kurēsha
(to make oneself ~ to another) kwīgereranya

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evening ▶ (later afternoon) umugorōba
(early) akagorōba
(when sun is very low but still visible) ikirēngazūba
(to be or become ~) kugorōba

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evil ▶ ikibi, ububi, inābi
(adj.) –bi
(to speak ~ of) gukana, kunegura
(to speak ~ of one another) gucurikanya
(to speak ~ of a ruler) kuyoba
(to seek out ~ doer, witch doctor) kuragura
(to have witch doctor seek out ~ doer) kuraguza
(to sprinkle 'medicine' around house to protect it from ~) kurēmbeka, gutota
(to chase away ~ spirits) gusēnda
(to succeed in persuading someone to leave his ~ ways) gukōndōra
(speaking ~ of another with whom you work) ikēba
(~ deed) ubuhūmbu
(example) akābarore
(~ language, esp. young girl's) ubweruzi
(~ look) igitsūre

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example ▶ icītegererezo, akarorero, ikigereranyo
(evil ~) akābarore
(person to be imitated) iremezo
(to give an) kugereraniriza, guha akarorero

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expect ▶ (to) gusamāza, kwīzigira, kurindīra
(to get a certain thing) kuziga
(to ~ a child) gukurirwa

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explain ▶ gufobōra, kugenekereza, gusigūra, gusobanura
(fully till all understand) kurangūra
(poorly) gufobeka
(thoroughly) gutumbūra
(a dream) kurōtōra
(one who ~) umusigūzi

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eye pupil ▶ imbonero, imboni

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fail ▶ gucumukura
(another) guhemukira
(to accomplish what one started) kugaburura
(to do what one intended) kudehūra
(to find) kubura, guhusha
(to give what one promised) kugaramāngira
(to keep one's word) guhemuka, kwīrahuruza, gutēzūra
(to return) kugīrīra
(in on'e task) gusibanganya
(to be unable to do what one attempts) gutāna

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fall ▶ kugwa, gutēmba
(accidentally on spear and be injured) gushōka
(and hurt oneself) kunywāguka
(and skin oneself) gukungagurika
(before) kwikubita imbere
(down) kwikubita hasi, kwītēmbagaza
(down, as branches blown down) gukoragurika
(down, as house) guhenuka, guhomyoka, gusambūka, gusēnyuka, gusituka
(down continually or in abundance) gukoragurika
(down together, usually in fright) guhindikirana
(down from above) kweguka, gukoroka, gushunguruka, gutibuka
(from high above) guhanantuka
(from stalk) guhūnguka
(heavily, rain) kuzibiranya
(in cascade) gushunguruka, gusūma
(in, cause to) gusitura
(in love) kubēnguka
(into water or food) kudibuka
(not fall, rain) gutara
(to the ground) guhūndagara
(with) gukorokana
(with a din) guhongoroka
(to cause to fall) kugwisha, gukungagura, gutēmvya
(to cause to fall down) guhenura, gusēnyura, gukorora
(let fall drop by drop) gutōnyāngiriza

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family ▶ indimwe, umuryāngo
(last one of family who has no children) imponnyi
(members of) abavandimwe

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fat ▶ itōto
(meat) ibinure
(to be) kudoha, kuvyibuha
(to be, child) gushisha
(to be, meat) kunura
(to become) kudoha, kuvyibuha

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favorite ▶ (person) umutoni
(~ child) umuhērerezi
(~ servant or friend) umwīshikira
(to be) gutona

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feel ▶ kwūmva
(around for) gukabakaba
(to begin to ~ better after being ill) gutenzukirwa
(to cause to ~ badly) gusurira
(faint) kuyāmīra
(joy, positive emotions) kuryōherwa
(to make another ~ badly over what he's done) gutēteka
(to not ~ anything) gutimba
(of) gukorakora
(pain) kubabara
(sad) gutunturirwa
(the way) guhwihwisha, kujuragirika, gukāmbakāmba
(the way before one with foot or spear) gukebagiza

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fever ▶ (illness) inyōnko, umururūmbo
(temperature) umuriro, umucānwa, ubushūhe
(to have high fever) umucānwa ururumba (from kururūmba)

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field ▶ ubwātsi, indimiro
(battle) urugāmba
(corner belonging to each child) icībare
(forsaken, abandonded) ikirare
(cultivated) itōngo
(to clean up) gukāngaza
(playground) ikibuga
(airfield) ikibuga c'indege

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find ▶ kurōnka, gusānga
(fault with everything) kunēbagura
(new building site) kugerēra
(one's way after being lost) guhubūka, kuzimuruka
(to be able to be found when looked for) kurondereka
(to fail to ~) kubura, guhusha
(something you ~) ikinobano

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fingernail ▶ urwāra, inzāra
(to go under) gusesereza
(to scratch with) kwāga

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fire ▶ umuriro
(bit of) umucānwa
(built for cows) icōtero
(made in enclosure for animals) igicāniro
(to blow the) kwātsa
(to destroy by) kuyigiza
(to extinguish) kuzimya
(to go out) kuzima
(to keep ~ going) gucānira
(to light) kudomeka
(to make, start, build) gucāna, gukongereza
(to put out) kuzimya
(to put wood on ~) gukomānya
(to set ~ to) guturira
(to fire from job, dismiss, throw out of house) kwirukana
(altar fire) igicāniro

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first-born ▶ uburiza
(child) imfura

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fist ▶ igipfūnsi
(to hit with ~ repeatedly but gently, mother with child) gutumagura

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flail ▶ ikibāndo
(to ~, beans, grain) guhūra

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flower ▶ ishurwe
(calix) ingovyi
(stamen) umweza
(pistil) isage
(pollen) umurāyi
(ovary) intorobwa

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force ▶ (to) kugōbēra, guhadikiriza, kuzingirikira
(someone to do something against his will) guhāta
(to obey) kugandūra
(to lose original ~) gutītūra

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foreign body ▶ (in eye, milk, water) igitotsi

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forgetting ▶ (one's skill) uruhuni

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forsake ▶ guheba, guhuma
(one another) kuvāvānura
(to succeed in persuading someone to ~ his evil ways) gukōndōra

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forward ▶ (to go) gutēra imbere
(to go ~ little by little) kwūngururuza
(to go steadily) kuramiriza

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fragrant ▶ (to be) gutāmirana
(oil) isenga

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garment ▶ umwāmbaro, impūzu
(for work) icāmbazo
(long) umwitēro
(long, trails on ground) imvune
(of barkcloth, nicely sewn) indemano
(outer) ipfūndo, umutamana
(that is too big) igisāga
(that isn't very long) igikwēmu
(with sleeves or armholes) umwīnjiro

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gather ▶ kumyōra
(building materials) guhumbira
(firewood) gusēnya
(food from garden) gusoroma, kwāha
(fruit) kwāmūra
(in loose garment at waist and tie) gukenyera
(little sticks) gutōrōra
(manure for garden) kuvūmbura
(up) kwāndura, gusorōranya, gutororokanya
(pollen and nectar) kudaha
(up grass that has been spread out) gusasūra

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give ▶ guha, guhēsha, gutānga
(back) gusubīza
(back cow, calf to one from whom one received a cow) kwōkōra
(birth) kuvyāra
(birth, cow about to ~) kudigiriza
(cow a second time to one who has brought many gifts) guhetera inkoni
(example) kugereraniriza, guha akarorero
(gift to bride so she will talk) guhorōra
(give me...) mpa
(good measure) kunengesēreza
(in to) kurōnsa
(information) kurangīra
(life to) kubēshaho
(more) kwongera, kwongeza
(oneself to) kwīhāmbīra
(oneself to service of Kiranga) kubāndwa, kuvōvōta
(over a possession) kwegura
(penuriously) kuzirukanya
(pledge or security) kugwatiriza
(present) kugabira
(refuse to) kwīma
(refuse to ~ another his own) kugūnga, kwīmana
(sacrifice) gushikana
(someone a hand) gusahiriza
(someone a heavy load) kuremēka
(to) guha, guhēra, guhēreza, kurōnsa, gushikiriza
(to each other) guhāna
(to each other often) guhānahāna
(to one whose house has burned) gusuhūza
(talk) kugamba
(up everything) kwīgura
(warm welcome, one does not say it of himself) gukēra

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go ▶ kugenda, kwigira, kuja
(after) kugīra
(ahead a little) kwūnguruza
(all through a house) kuvōgera
(around) kuzunguruka, gukīkira, gukīkuza, kuzīngūka
(around difficulty) kuzunguruka umutego, gukikuza umutego
(around 'Robinhood's barn') gukingitiranya
(aside with someone to talk privately) kwīkebukana
(astray) kuzimira
(away secretly) kwīdohōra
(back and forth) kunyura
(back on what he said, make one) kurahuruza
(backward) kwītūtānya, kugēnda umugōngo
(backward inadvertently) gufūtānya
(beyond) kurēnga
(by car) kugēnda n'umuduga
(by boat) kugēnda n'ubwato
(by land rather than cross river or lake) guca i musozi
(carefully not knowing path) kwātīra
(elsewhere) kugerēra
(everywhere) gukwiragirana, guhetūra
(far away) kwāmbuka, guhaba
(for food) gusuma
(forward) gutēra imbere
(forward little by little) kwūngururuza, kwūnguruza
(forward steadily) kuramiriza
(for a walk) kugēndagēnda
(from one thing to another) kurārāta
(from place to place) kunyuragiza, kuyugayuga
(gaily) kudayadaya
(here and there, child) kurērēta
(home) gutāha, kuganūka
(home from work) kugodoka
(home, of wife when angry) kugēnda buje
(into danger without regard to oneself) kwīroha
(let's go!) hoji, hogi, tugende
(naked) gufurama, kugēnda amēnya, kugēnda gusa
(on tiptoe) kuyōmbōka
(out, fire, light) kuzima
(out to a certain place) gusokoroka
(outside) gusohoka
(to prepare to go) kwīkora
(quietly) kuyōmbōka
(rapidly) gukinagira
(reluctantly) kwīyumānganya
(right in path, animal) gutōta
(round) gukikuza
(secretly because of fear) kwōmba
(seperate ways) gutāna
(slowly) kugoyagoya
(slowly, of convalescent) kwāndāra
(softly) kuyōmbōka
(steadily forward) kuramiriza
(stealthily) kunyobanyoba, kwiyombayomba, kuyombayomba
(straight forward) gutūmbereza
(through a narrow pass) kunyegētera
(to bed) kuryāma
(to chief or superior for something) kwītwāra, gushengera, gushengerera
(to find food) gusuma
(to help another in his work) gusāsīra
(to meal uninvited) kwigemagema
(to meet) gusanganira, gutegēra
(together to produce food for guests) gutērēra
(together to see, crowd) gukōndōrera
(toward) kurora, kwerekera, kwerekeza
(uncertain of the way) guhushagirika
(uncertainly) kudāguza
(up, as hill) kudūga
(up in smoke) gupfūnduka
(walking, esp. at night) kwīkanya
(to wedding) gutāha ubukwe
(well, to cause to ~) kugēnza
(with) kwāmbukana, kujāna

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goat ▶ impene, intūngwa, igitūngwa
(heard of) inzirikwa
(male) impfizi
(young male) agasugurume
(skin for carrying baby) ingovyi
(billy ~) isuguru, ihebe

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goose ▶ (wild) igisafu

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grow ▶ gukura, kwāruka, gukaka
(after cutting) kunaga
(larger, esp. moon) gutūbūka
(let hair ~ long) gutongoza
(old) gutāma
(rapidly in spurts) kuvugumuka
(smaller, sometimes used of moon) gutūba
(to cause to grow) gukuza
(to not ~, plant) kunyigīra
(to not ~, because of too many seeds) kuzīnga
(very fast, child) kugurugūmba
(well) kubaduka
(child that doesn't ~ properly) imfunnya

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guardian ▶ (one who rears child) umurēzi

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hail ▶ urubura

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harvest ▶ ishwābūra, ivyīmburwa, ibirimwa, umwīmbu
(esp. millet) igenya, igesa
(to ~) kwīmbura, gushwābūra
(corn) kumyōra
(millet) kugenya, kugesa
(esp. perennial plants, fruit) kwāmūra
(to be ready for) kwīyerēra
(to put away the) kwīmbura

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harvest time ▶ umwēro, iyēra, iyīmbura
(millet) igesa

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harvester ▶ umwīmbuzi
(millet) umugenyi

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hatred ▶ ubwānkanyi, urwānko, agahamo, uruhamo
(where there has been love) umucāno
(among members of polygamous family) akēnese

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healthy ▶ (child, about 4 months) ikibunduguru
(plant, person) itōto
(to be) kunōnōka, gukira
(to be very, strong) gutetera

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hill ▶ umusozi, umudūgo, umutumba
(brow of) igikombe
(of earth, to plant in) iburi
(slope of) inkūka, akamanuko, umurwa
(top of) impīnga
(little hills) ubutumba
(very big ~) igisozi
(white ant hill) umugina

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hit ▶ (to) gukubita
(repeatedly but gently with fist, mother with child) gutumagura
(a sore place) gutoneka

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house ▶ inzu
(in ruins) umusaka
(little ~, built for spirit of one who has died) nyabugoro
(of king) ingoro
(temporary) urusāgo, igikāri
(small, cabin) akazu
(with high pointed roof) umushonge, agashūngēre
(place opposite door of ~) umukōndo
(to cause to fall down) gusambūra, gusēnyura, guhenūra
(to chase others out of ~) guturumbura
(to fall down) gusāmbuka, gusēnyuka, guhenuka
(to put roof on) gusakāra
(to repair a) gusanura

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hurry ▶ kwīhūta, kwīruka, gukovya, gukōkōbereza, gukwākwānya, kunyānyasa, kunyaragasa, kunyaruka, gushibuka
(of child only) kudirigiza
(to go) kubāndānya
(to go and return) gutebūka
(along, as cows to better pasture, or child stumbling after something he wants) kurārāta
(to be in a ~) gufuruguta
(to do in a ~) kubanguka
(to not be in a ~) kwītōnda

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ill ▶ (to be) kurwāra, kuyōka
(often) kurwāragurika, kubūnga
(to become ~ one after another) guhindikirana
(to lie around ~ long time) kuvūnda
(see also under 'sick')

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illegitimate ▶ (child) igihūmbu, ikivyārwa

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illness ▶ indwāra
(severe) ikīza

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illustrate ▶ kugereraniriza

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illustration ▶ akarorero

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improve ▶ (another's work) guhīngūra
(physically or otherwise) kwōroherwa
(to begin to feel better after being ill) gutenzukirwa
(soil) gutabira
(taste of food) kuryosha
(a technique) guteza imbere
(ubuhinga)

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improvement ▶ (of soil) ukubungabunga
(isi)
(of environment) uguteza imbere ahantu, ukubungabunga ibidukikije

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insect ▶ igikōko, agakōko
(many small) ubukōko
(ant, flying, edible) iswa
(ant, pincher) intozi, urutozi
(ant, soldier) uburima
(ant, sugar) ikinywabūki
(ant, tiny) ubunyegeri
(ant, white) umuswa
(ant hill, white) umugina
(bedbug) igiheri, igihere
(bee) uruyūki
(bee, carpenter) imvūndēri
(bug) agasīmba
(bumblebee) impingwe
(butterfly) ikinyungunyungu, ikinyugunyugu
(centipede, small) inyōngōri
(chigoe flea) imvūnja, ivūnja
(cicada) ijeri
(cockroach) inyēnzi
(fly, big, tsetse) ikibugu
(fly, house) isāzi
(flea) imbaragasa
(gnat) agatūku, ubutūku
(grasshopper) uruhige, agahōri, igihōri
(jigger) imvūnja, ivūnja
(locust) uruyige
(louse) inda
(mosquito) umubu
(moth) ikinyungunyungu
(tick) inyōndwi, inyōndwe
(tick that causes recurrent fever) igitangu
(tiny ~ in eye) akanyarira jisho
(wasp) ivūbi
(to sting or bite) gusurira

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join ▶ gufatanya, kumatanya, gutēranya
(together, esp. poles at top in building house) kudōmbagiza
(together a broken thing) kwūnga

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king ▶ umwāmi
(entrance to king's kraal) ikirīmba
(house of) ingoro
(pronouncements or commands sent out to chiefs) amatēka
(to become) kwīma
(to die) gutānga
(to make) kwīmika
(to sit) kuvyāgira
(to speak evil of ~) kurogota

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kraal ▶ urugo
(entrance to king's) ikirīmba
(head of) sēnaka
(owner of) umutūngwa, nyene
(with many houses of members of one family) ikigwati
(within the kraal) intangāro

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labor ▶ ubucumukure
(childbirth) ibise
(to ~) gutama, gucumukura

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language ▶ ururimi
(evil, esp. of young girl) ubweruzi
(to speak in a mysterious ~) gufobeka

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last ▶ imperūka
(one of anything) imperēra
(one of family who has no children) imponnyi
(at ~) ubuherūka, aho rēro
(to be ~, previous) guherūka

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lend ▶ (that for which equivalent will be returned) kugurāna
(that which will itself be returned) gutīza
(something and not get it back soon) gutongoza
(money) kugurana, gukopesha amahera

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lily ▶ (blood, wild flower) umwangange

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live ▶ kuba
(live at, to dwell) gutura
(breathe, to still live) guhēma
(to be alive) kubaho
(to cause to) kubēshaho
(long time) kurāmba
(near a public place) guhorahabona
(together) kwāmana, kubāna, kumana
(long live the king!) ganza, sabwa!

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look ▶ (evil) igitsūre
(all about) kuraraguza
(around on all sides) kweraguza, gukebaguza
(at) kurāba, kurereka, kurora, kwirora
(at carefully) guhwēba, kwīhwēza
(at hastily) kurangaguza
(at in wonder) gusamāra
(at intently) kwīhwēza, kwītegereza
(to let look for) gushakisha
(look at me!) kundāba
(at one thing after another, many things) kurābarāba
(at oneself) kwīrāba
(at repeatedly) gukanaguza
(at without paying attention) gusamāra
(at with disapproval) kurāba igitsūre
(behind) gukebuka
(carefully to see if anyone is there) gukengūza
(down, to make another) kwūnamika, kwūnamīsha
(for) kurereka, kurondera
(esp. to feel around) gukabakaba
(for a fault in one another) kugenzanya
(from side to side trying to see everything) kurunguruka
(in the face, to be unwilling to) kwīyobagiza
(like) gushusha
(over, in prospect of buying) kugaragura
(straight up) kurarama
(through) gusesa
(towards) kwerekera, gutūmbēra
(up) gukanura, kurangamiza, kurangamira, kuraramura

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lose ▶ guhōmba, guta, gutakaza
(by death) gupfīsha
(by death, one's child) gupfusha
(interest) gutenzēkanya, gutezēkanya, gutēzūra
(one another) gutāna
(one's head) gucika ivutu, kuzimagirika
(one's husband or wife by death) gupfākara
(one's zeal or enthusiasm) kudehūra
(original force) gutītūra
(to cause to) gutēsha
(to ~ elections) gutindwa amatora
(to ~ reason) gusara
(to make another ~ his case) kuzingirikira
(one who has lost everything in trial) imvumure
(weight) kugōgōra

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materials ▶ (for building house) ihūmbi
(to cut trees for building, to gather building materials) guhūmbira

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medicine ▶ umuti
(for diarrhea) umufutisho
(to make one to talk freely, to release inhibitions) urudedēmvya
(to make people like one) urusango
(material smeared about kraal to keep away thieves and evil spirits) urugombeka, ururēmbeko
(to ask for ~ to counteract poison) kurogōza
(to put out ~ to keep away thieves and spirits) gutota, kurēmbeka, kugombeka

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member ▶ (of group) umunywanyi
(of chief's council who listens to trials) umunyekōmbe
(of family) abavandimwe

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milk ▶ amata
(human) amabērebēre
(buttermilk) amaterere
(skimmed) amatererwa
(given to sick) umwērēra
(sour) urubu
(containers, table or shelf for) uruhīmbi
(cup) icānsi
(to have dirt in ~) gutobeka
(to pour ~ down another's throat) kuramiza
(to put skin of dead calf before cow so she will give milk) kwōrokēra
(to remove a foreign body from) gutosōra
(to sour, curdle) kuvura

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miss ▶ gusība
(aim and) guhusha
(be lonesome for) gukūmbura
(each other on path) kunyuranwa
(fail to find) kubura
(pass by but not meet) guhubana

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mocked ▶ (to be easily) gutēteka, gutētērwa

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month ▶ ukwēzi
(January) ukwezi kwa mbere, Nzero
(February) ukwezi kwa kabiri, Nyamagoma, Ruhuhuma
(March) ukwezi kwa gatatu, Ntwarante
(April) ukwezi kwa kane, Ndamukiza, Kabozambuba
(May) ukwezi kwa gatanu, Rusama
(June) ukwezi kwa gatandatu, Rwirabura, Kiyumpu
(July) ukwezi kwa ndwi, Mukakaro
(August) ukwezi kwa munani, Myandagaro
(September) ukwezi kwa cenda, Nyakanga
(October) ukwezi kwa cumi, Gitugutu
(November) ukwezi kwa cumi na rimwe, Munyonyo
(December) ukwezi kwa cumi na kabiri, Kigarama

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nail ▶ umugera, urumāmbo, umusumari (Sw.)
(fingernail, toenail) urwāra

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nephew ▶ (son of brother) umuhūngwacu, umusēngezana
(nephew or niece, child of one's sister if one is a boy) umwīshwa

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no ▶ oya
(adj.) nta, ata
(emphatic) oyāye, ishwi, eka, ekāye, wapi
(to say ~) guhakana
(euphemism for a polite No) nzokubarira (lit. I will let you know)

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nostril ▶ itonde

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obey ▶ kugamburuka, kugendanira, kwītōndera, kwūmvira, kugandūkira
(unwillingly) kugambarara
(to force to) kugandūra
(to refuse to) kugaranya

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oil ▶ amavuta
(olive) amavuta ya elayo
(dirty ~) amavuta mabi ava mu mashini

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old ▶ (age) ubukuru, zabukuru
(man) umutāma
(person) umusāza
(woman) umutāmakazi, umukamakare
(to be) kurāmba
(to be, but still strong) kugwagura, guhūmura
(to become) gusāza
(to become, woman) gukēcura
(to grow) gutāma

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olive oil ▶ amavuta ya elayo

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pail ▶ indobo

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pat ▶ (child) gushīshītira

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pencil ▶ ikaramu (Sw.)
(for slate) idushi
(~ box) agapfuko k'amakaramu

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penetrate ▶ (into) kunyegera
(skin, esp. under fingernail) gusesēra, gusesereza

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pepper ▶ (Sw.) ipiripiri, ipilipili, agapiripiri, impiripiri
(chilli) urusenda

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persuade ▶ (in underhanded way) kubembeteranya
(to succeed to ~ someone to leave his evil ways) gukōndōra
(to talk with someone to try to ~ her to elope) gucīkiza
(to try to ~) gukiranira

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pierce ▶ (to) gucumita, gutobora, kuzibūra
(in order to kill) gusogōta
(through) gutobekeranya
(as with a nail) guhānda

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pistil ▶ (of flower) isage

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plate ▶ isahāni, isahāne
(to ~ as with silver) kumadika
(to clean up one's ~ completely) gukōmba

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populous ▶ (tribe or family) ikigaga
(strong) igisata

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pour ▶ (to ~ into) gusuka
(to shed) kuvīra
(to ~ out) gusēsa
(~ forth water, as spring) kududubiza
(~ milk down another's throat) kuramiza
(~ water on another's hands) kwūhīra
(~ water on hair before cutting it) kuvuba

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prefer ▶ (as lesser of two evils) gupfuma

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prepare ▶ (to ~) gutegūra, guteganya, kuroraniriza
(food quickly for one) kuzina
(ground for sorghum) guhānda
(oneself to strike) kubangura
(a place for building) gutaba
(place for newborn baby) kubīkīra
(things for a trip) gutēkera
(to fight) gukenyera
(to go) kwīkora
(one who prepares for another) integūza

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prepared ▶ (to be) gutegūrika
(for, i.e. on guard) kugaba
(for building) gutabwa
(to do or run quickly) kugabiriza
(to go with everything ~) kugēnda hange

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produce ▶ gukora
(heavily or abundantly) gutengengera
(no longer) gutītūka

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projection ▶ (of any kind on building, as church tower, comb on house, etc.) kenese

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promise ▶ indagano, umuhāngo, iragi, isezerano
(to ~) kuraganira, gusezerana, kuragana
(to fail to keep) gutēzūra
(to fail to give what one has promised) kugaramāngira
(to ~ and then pretend you haven't) kwiyobagiza
(result of failure to keep ~) urudubi

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pull ▶ gukwēga, gushikura
(by roots) gusitura, kumomora, kurandura
(easily) kumomoka, gushikuka
(things away from plant or tree) gukurira
(~ out, ~ up stake) gushingūra
(out of the mud) gushāyūra
(teeth) guhongora

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pupil ▶ (student) umwīgīshwa, umunyushure, umunyeshure (Rw.)

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pure ▶ (esp. beer undiluted with water) –novu
(to be) guca, kwēra
(to become) guhumānuka

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put ▶ gushira
(away) kubīka, gushingūra
(away the harvest) kwīmbura
(away beans for a year) guhitiza
(away for a year, to be ~) guhitira
(away, for several years) guhitikirana, guhitirana
(away, to take to) kwāndūra
(back) gusubīza
(bees in new hive) kwātira
(down) guhwāmika
(down roughly) gusekura
(forth new leaves) kurēmba
(hand to face in gesture of surprise) kujorerwa
(handle on) gukwikira
(higher) gukiriza
(in certain place) kugabānyānya
(in order) kurorānya
(into water) kurobeza
(near fire to dry) gutara
(on clothes) kwāmbara, kwīyambika
(on nice smelling stuff) kwōsa
(off doing what one should) kwīrengagiza
(oneself above where he belongs) kwītāra
(out fire, light) kuzimya
(out great branches) gusagarara
(out in sun) kwānikira
(outside) gusohora
(right) gutūngānya
(skin of dead calf before cow to make her give milk) kwōrokēra
(something cool on burn) gupfuvya
(somewhere) gushiraho
(things together) kurementanya, gusorōranya
(to bed) kuryāmika
(together) kwegeraniriza, guhūza, gutororokanya, kwegeranya
(to one side) guherereza
(to sleep) gusinziriza
(to work) kwāhura
(up, e.g. arms) gutarika
(up bee hive) kwegeka
(wood on fire) gukomānya
(yeast in beer) kubetera

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rain ▶ imvura
(light, fine) urunyanyāga
(main rain season) itumba
(season of early rains) agatāsi
(very heavy) isegenya
(very heavy, sweeps away crops on hillside) inkukūra
(wind and rain, storm) inkūbi
(path of water in heavy rain) umuvo
(to ~) kugwa
(with imvura, i.e. imvura iragwa)
(to begin to ~ after dry season) gutāsura
(to cause to, sorcerer) kuvuba
(early in morning or for a long time) kuvōvōta
(heavily) guhonoka
(a long time without stopping) kujobanya
(on) kuvubira
(softly) kunyanyāga
(to threaten to) gukuba
(to fall continuously) gushāna
(to fall heavily) kuzibiranya
(to go for shelter in) kwūgama
(to be soaked by downpour) kujōbeka

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rear ▶ (a child) kurera

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rearing ▶ (of children) indero

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reject ▶ gushibura
(council) gusaragurika
(food that you've always eaten) guhura

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remain ▶ kuguma
(in one place permanently) guhama
(in place of another) gusigarira
(still, quiet) kwīyorosha

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remnant ▶ (of clan or family) agahengekezo

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remove ▶ gukūra, gukūraho
(chief) gukōmbōra
(clothing) kwāmbūra
(completely) gutōngōra
(dry leaves from banana trees) gutūtūra
(enchantment) kurogōra
(everything from burning house) gusahura
(foreign body from eye, milk or water) gutosōra
(from cross) kubāmbūra
(from fire or oven) kwōkōra
(from hiding) guhishūra
(from hole in ground, what one has put there) kuzīkuruka
(grass from house) gukākura
(lid of basket) kurumūra
(load from head) gutūra
(skin from drying) kubāmbūra
(sliver for oneself) kwīhāndūra
(taboo) kuzirūra
(things) kuyōra
(things from flesh as witch doctors supposedly do) guhura
(thorn or sliver) guhāndūra

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repeat ▶ gusubīra, kwongera, kugereka, kugerekeranya
(many times) kwiyongeranya
(to tell what one has heard while eavesdropping) gutumbūra
(to ask another to ~ in order to check his veracity) gucaca

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reputation ▶ (to spoil another's) kwāmbika ibara

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return ▶ (to where speaker is) kugaruka
(other than where speaker is) gusubira
(vt) kugarukana, gusubiza
(from far away) guhabūka
(from hunting) guhīgūka
(from running away) guhīngūra
(from war) gutabāruka
(home, of wife when angry at husband) kugēnda buje
(to) gushikiriza
(to cause to) kugarura, gukubiranya, gusubiza
(to fail to) kugīrīra
(to have to ~ home because of bad news) gukuba
(to one's country after famine is over) gusuhūkuruka
(with) kugarukana
(person who goes never to return) akagīrīre
(an investment ~) umwimbu

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revive ▶ (vi) guhembūka
(vt) guhembūra
(after being wilted, fainted) kurabūka,
(vt) kurabura

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revolt ▶ ubugome, umugome, umugararizo
(mild in character) akagūma
(to ~) kugarariza, kugoma, kugūmūka
(against king) kugesera
(to subdue) kugandūra, kugomora, kugomoza

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roast ▶ gukarānga, gutara
(easily) gukarāngika
(in coals) kwōtsa

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rock ▶ ibuye, ikibuye, urutare
(pile of rocks) igihongo

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run ▶ kwīruka
(as water) gutēmba
(down hill) gukoragurika
(to jump up and run quickly) kwūbuka
(like a little child) kudiririmba
(out bit by bit till all is gone) gushīrīra
(out to see something, usually of a crowd) gushwabāduka
(over) gusēsekara
(very fast) kwīrukānga, gushīnga amano
(to lean forward preparing to run) gutuna

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scratch ▶ umukwābu
(to ~) gukūba
(as wood, slate, etc.) guharura, guharagura
(oneself) kwīyāga
(with fingernails) kwāga
(with a nail) guhānda

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seek ▶ kurondera
(advice) kugīsha
(assistance to overcome) kugomorera
(doer of evil, as witch doctor does) kuragura
(food) gusuma
(information) kugenzūra
(information about someone) kubariritsa
(one's way) kujurajura

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shelf ▶ ubushinguro bugerekeranye
(for milk containers) uruhīmbi

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shine ▶ kwāka, kumurika
(brilliantly) kuyagiriza

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shiny ▶ (cloth) ihariri
(to be, as silk cloth) gukānga

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sick ▶ (person) umurwāyi
(child) uruzingo
(to be) kurwāra, kuyōka
(to be often) kurwāragurika, kubūnga
(i.e. indwara irambūngamwo)
(to assist ~ person in walking) kwāndāza
(to make) kurwāza
(to be taken ~ suddenly, supposedly from python looking at one) gukāngwa
(to visit the ~) gusuhūza
(to take care of the ~) kurwāza

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sickly ▶ (child) uruzīngo

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singing ▶ ururirimbo, indirīmbo
(dancing with ~) uruvyino
(pastoral ~, sung poetry) ibicuba
(sung legend) igitito
(post-drinking song) amayaya
(pastoral ~) umuvovoto
(sentimental evening ~) ikilito
(~ for the hunt) gukokeza
(to lead in ~) kuririmbisha

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sit ▶ kwīcara
(to ~ fidgeting, or to go from place to place to ~ because others speak evil of you) kuyugayuga
(of kings or rulers) kuvyāgira
(together talking for a long time) gutūrika
(to fix up nice place to ~) gusēzera
(place to ~) icīcaro, umusēzero

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site ▶ (building) urugerēro, ikibanza
(to find new building ~) kugerēra

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skimmed ▶ (milk) amatererwa

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slate ▶ urubāho, igisate, ikigura
(pensil) idushi

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slip ▶ kunyerera
(down on spear, meat if it slips it's supposedly diseased) gushōka
(out little by little, e.g. nail) kwīdohōra

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slope ▶ inkingu
(of hill) inkūka, akamanuko, umurwa
(steep) agahanamo

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smell ▶ ububabwe, ubumote
(to ~, vt) kwīnukiriza, kwūmva, kwūmviriza, kwīmōtereza
(to smell bad, vi) kunūka
(to smell good, vi) kumōta
(smell spreading, smell filling the air, vi) gutāmirana
(to put on nice smelling stuff) kwōsa

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smile ▶ akamwemwe
(to ~) kumwēnyura
(often) kumwenyagura
(manifest pleasure, but not necessarily show teeth) kumwemwamwemwa

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snail ▶ igifwera

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snow ▶ (hail) urubura

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sob ▶ gusarara
(silently) gupfunagira

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soft ▶ (anything very ~, lacking stiffness) urudēndevu
(to be) kwōroha
(to be silky ~) kurēmba
(to get ~ in water) kubōmbōka
(to make soil ~) kwōrohereza
(and springy, e.g. earth in swamp) kudemwademwa

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soften ▶ (another's anger) gufyīta
(soil) kwōrohereza
(cloth) kworosha impuzu mu kuyishira mu mazi

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soil ▶ ivu, agataka
(with much clay in it) inōmbe
(to soften up) kwōrohereza
(to be worn out) gutītūka

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sojourn ▶ (esp. in serach of place to build) gusēmbēra

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song ▶ indirīmbo, ururirimbo
(~ for two alternating choirs) ikimpwiri
(milling ~) indengo
(war songs) amazina y'ubuhizi, amazina y'urugamba
(sing or play plaintive) gucurira intimba
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sour ▶ (milk, taste) urubu
(to ~, milk) kuvura
(to be ~) kubīha, kurura

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speak ▶ (speaking evil of another with whom you work) ikēba
(one who speaks with senseless repititions of words) ikirogorogo
(all speaking together) imvugarimwe
(to ~) kuvuga
(against) guhāririza
(carelessly) gufudika
(clearly) gufobōra, gutobekeranya
(distinctly) gutobora
(distinctly, not having been able to before) gutumbūra
(evil of one another) gucurikanya
(evil of) gukana, kunegura
(evil of the king) kurogota
(evil of a ruler) kuyoba
(fearlessly) kwūbahuka
(foolishly) kudebagura
(hatefully) gucobogoza
(hesitantlyusually used in negative) guhengēshanya
(in a mysterious language) gufobeka
(incoherently) kuvōvōta
(in someone's favor) gutēturura
(lightly) kujajura
(loudly) kurangurura, kurandamuka
(many words, usually quite meaningless ones) guhogōmboka
(sarcastically) kurtyekeza
(the truth) guhinyuza
(thoughtlessly) kurandamuka
(unwisely or rudely) kurofokwa
(very beseechingly) kubobōteza
(when one shouldn't) kuyogora
(where others hear voices but do not understand) guhwirima
(without arriving at point) kurerembuza
(to cause to) kuvuza
(to leave off speaking evil and speak kindly) kwigarura
(to prevent from speaking) guhwāmika
(give gift to bride so she will ~) guhorōra
(refuse to speak till given gift, as bride does) guhorōrwa

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spirit ▶ igihūme, impwēmu, umuzimu
(Holy Spirit) Mpwemu Mweranda, Mpwemu Yera
(nature spirit) imbāndwa
(of person) umushaha
(to chase away or drive out evil ~) gusēnda
(to offer to ~) guterekēra
(~ worship) ubuzimuzimu

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spit ▶ amate, igikororwa
(spurted from between teeth as indication of scorn) inyeri
(to ~) gucīra amate
(to ~ on) kuvuma amate
(~ up milk, baby) kubōga
(~ up phlegm) kuruka

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spoil ▶ (to ~, vi) kubora, kwōnōna
(vt) kuboza
(of foods) kugāsha
(another's reputation) kwāmbika ibara

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sprinkle ▶ gusukira, kuvōmera
(vi) kumījira
(vt) gucūcagira, kumīja, kumījagira
(as with powder, salt) kumemēra
('medicine' around house to protect it from evil) gutota

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sprout ▶ umugera, ingūndu, umunago
(bean) umugōndōra
(sorghum) ikirōnge
(to ~) kumera
(to ~, millet) gusēsa
(after cutting) kunaga

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staring ▶ (in evil manner) umufyure

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step ▶ intambuko
(measure by steps) itāmbwe
(place where steps are cut in hillside) ubukiru
(to ~) gutambuka
(aside to make light) gukīngūra, gukīnguruka
(on) guhonyora
(take little steps) kunyonyera

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stick ▶ igiti
(for beating drum) umurisho, umukembe
(large, stuck in ground) inkīngi, igikīngi
(short, club) ingāge
(stuck in person) urubāngo
(thrown to kill bird etc.) injugujugu
(walking) inkoni
(with nail in end) umuhūnda

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strike ▶ kubomboranya, gukoma, gukubita, kudoda
(against in order to knock down) gusita
(down and almost kill) kurabika
(one against the other, knees) gukomānya
(oneself) kwīkubita
(oneself in amazement) kwīshishītira
(sore place) gutomeka
(together) kubomborana
(thunder, lightning) guhūndagaza
(prepare oneself to, grasp in preparation to) kubangura
(to raise one's arm to) kubangurira

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substitute ▶ (one who takes place of guilty man) impongano
(for another) kwākīra

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table ▶ ameza (Sw.)
(bedside) akameza ko mu buryamo
(for milk containers) uruhīmbi
(to set the ~) gupānga ameza

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tail ▶ umurīzo
(to cut off tail of animal) gukēmūra
(to wag ~) kuzungagiza

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take ▶ gufata, gucakīra, guhitana
(another's place in watching) kubangūra
(apart what has been stuck together) kumatūra
(authority on oneself) kurēngera
(away) gukūra, gushingūra, gutwāra
(away from) kwāka, kunyaga
(away completely) gukōmbōra, gutōngōra
(away with) kuvāna
(by force) kunyaga
(care of) kubungabunga, kwītwaririka
(care of, very good) kubukabuka
(case to chief or court) kubūranya
(case to chief, knowing one is right) gutara
(child in arms) kurera, gukīkira
(council together) guhūza ināma
(cows uphill) kurārūra
(down) kumanura
(down tent) gupāngūra
(everything for oneself) kwīgūngirako
(far away) kwāmbukana
(firm hold of) kubāngiriza
(from another) kwākīra
(from pocket or other concealed place) kugoborora
(here, take this) enda
(hold of) gufata
(hold of person) gusūmira, gushorerakw amaboko
(home) gutāhāna
(home object or cows after being away long time) kugishūra
(in one's arms) kugūmbīra, gukīkira
(mouthful) gutamira
(oath) kurahīra
(off clothes) kwīyambura
(off lid of basket) kurumūra
(out) gusokōra
(out of) gukūra, gusokorora, kugobōtora
(out of hole in ground what one has put there) kuzīkuruka
(outside) gusohora
(picture) gucapura (Sw.)
(place of another) kwākīra
(quickly) gutebūkana
(someone aside) kwīkebana
(someone to chief for trial or accusation) gushengeza
(something out to an appointed place) gusokorora
(to put away) kwāndūra
(to someone) gushīra
(to someone where he is) gusānza
(turns) kwākīrana, kwākīranwa, kuja imbu, gukūranwa
(up space) gutabarara
(walk) kugēndagēnda
(wife) kwābīra
(wife, without marrying her properly) gucīkiza
(with) kujāna

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tell ▶ (one who tells others of good things, tells them where to go to find something good) umurānzi
(one who refuses to do as told) intābarirwa
(to ~) kubara, kubarira, kubwīra, gukerutsa, kurānga
(all about something) kujōja
(certainly) kujījūra
(dream) kurōtōra
(events) kudōnda
(fairy tales, stories passed down from long ago) gutika, kugana
(how one's affaires are going) kwīrāta
(make one ~ truth) kurahuruza
(publicly) kwerura
(someone that his friend has died) guhebūza
(something in a kind, easy way) kubembetereza
(to, divulge secret) gukerukiriza
(to others what you've heard) kwīgānīra
(what one has done) kwīyagiriza
(what one has heard while eaves-dropping) gutumbūra
(whole truth without hiding a thing) kwātagura

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textile ▶ ubugwegwe bahinguramwo impuzu
(~ mill) uguhingura inyuzi

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thieves ▶ (to put 'medicine' about the kraal to keep away ~ and evil spirits) kurēmbeka

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tie ▶ (to ~) kuboha, guhāmbīra
(beans on hedge to dry) gushisha
(clothes at waist) gukenyeza
(cow's legs while milking) kujīsha
(firmly) kudādira
(neck of sack) kuniga
(oneself to) kwīhābīra
(rope) kudādira
(securely) kudaga
(together) gutubika, gupfundikanya
(up a bundle) gutēkera
(with knot) gupfundika
(as goat in pasture) kuzirika

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toenail ▶ urwāra

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toil ▶ ubucumukure

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top ▶ (of roof) agatwe
(of mountain or hill) impīnga, igikombe
(to arrive at) kurēngēra
(to cut ~ of grass or tree) gukēmūra

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travail ▶ (childbirth) ibise

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treat ▶ (one who treats illness) umuvūzi
(to ~ illness) kuvūra
(with anger) gushinyagura
(patient who does not recover) gufufahaza

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tutor ▶ umurēzi
(to ~ child) kurera

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untie ▶ kubohōra, kudādura, kuzitura, guhamburura, gupfundurura
(cow's legs after milking) kujishura

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until ▶ kugeza aho

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unwanted ▶ (child) intabwa

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utensil ▶ (basin) umubēhe, ikibēhe
(bowl) ibakure
(clay cooking pot) inkono, inaga, impānge
(tall clay water pot) umubīndi
(cooking) icōmbo
(small covered container) ikazānga
(small pot girls put butter in) ikebano, urwāvya
(spoon) ikiyīko
(very large pot) intāngo

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valley ▶ umwōnga
(with water) iriba
(with no water) akabānde
(brow of hill) igikombe
(to cross) kujabuka

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veil ▶ igitwikirizo
(to ~) gutwikīra

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vomit ▶ kudahwa, kwīyōra, kuruka, kuyōrwa, kwīyōrwa
(to ~ mother's milk, as baby does) kubōga

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vow ▶ indahiro
(to fail to keep ~) kwīrahuruza

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wag ▶ (tail) kuzungagiza

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wagtail ▶ (bird) inyamanza

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wail ▶ indūru, amarūru

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walk ▶ kugēnda, kugēndagēnda
(backward) kugēndēsha umugōngo, kugēnda umugōngo
(esp. at night) kwīkānya
(help sick person ~) kwāndāza
(in footsteps of another) kugera ikirēnge
(in one's sleep) kurandamuka
(in water) kuvōgera
(noisily) gukacagira
(on tiptoe) gusōbōka, kuyōmbōka
(slowly) kugoyagoya
(stealthily) gukacakaca, kwōmboka
(to take a ~, go for a ~) kugēndagēnda, gutēmbēra
(~ about in house without permission) kudōbēra
(barefoot) kugēnda n'ibirēnge

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water ▶ amazi
(rapidly flowing) umupfūnda
(anything that falls in) ikirohe
(dirt in) ikirohe
(large deep place of) icōgo
(thing for drawing) ikivōmesho
(to ~ plants) gusukira, kuvōmera
(to draw, go for) kuvōma
(to be covered with) kurengerwa
(to be in) kubōmbeka
(to filter ~) kuyōra amazi
(to flow softly, quietly) kuyōmbekēra
(to go in, swim) kwōga
(to have dirt in) gutobeka
(to pour on another's hands) kwūhīra
(to put into) kurobeza
(to remove foreign article) gutosōra

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well ▶ nēza
(to be) kuguma, gukomera
(to be, esp. of old people) kudūndēga
(to not be) kuyōka
(to get) gukira, kurokoka
(to get after serious illness) kurēmba
(to get when others around are dying) kurokoza

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whore ▶ marāya, indaya (Sw.)
(woman who has left many husbands and finally gone and built at parent's home) igisubiramuhira

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wilt ▶ gukaba, gukabirana, kuraba, kurabika
(to revive after being wilted) kurabūka
(to be wilted, about to die) kwānāna

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wipe ▶ guhanagura, gukēmūra, gupānga (Sw.), gukoropa
(esp. mother, wiping baby) guheha
(child's nose) kumyīra
(one's nose) kwīmyīra
(out) gusangangura

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witch doctor ▶ umupfumu
(certain kind) umumago
(to have him bewitch someone) kuraguza
(to have him divine) kuraguza
(to seek out evil doers) kuragura
(to take out objects from the body) guhura
(bits of things used for divining) agatēte
(stones, etc. which he claims to take from swollen places on body) umutundiro

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woman ▶ (lit. one wearing a wrap skirt) umukenyezi
(married ~) umugore
(lady-like, respected) umupfasoni
(elderly, respectful term) umukamakare
(elderly, disrespectful term) umukēcuru
(who has left many husbands and finally goe's to parent's home to build) igisubiramuhira

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workman ▶ umukozi, umunyakazi
(skilled) umufundi (Sw.)
(someone instructed to work or overseen at work) umuyoborwa

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worm ▶ inzōka
(tapeworm) igikāngaga
(white, found in soil) igikogoshi

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worn out ▶ (clothes) agashāmbara, umushāmbara
(mat) umusāmbi
(thing) akāhebwe, umushiro
(to be, of soil no longer productive) gutītūka
(to become) gusāza, gucobogora, gutama
(to repair repeatedly something absolutely ~) gusanasana

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liter ▶ ilitero

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bible ▶ bibiliya

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kilometer ▶ ikilometero

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Belgian ▶ (person) umubirigi, umubiligi

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fly ▶ (to ~) kuguruka
(to ~ an airplane, as pilot) gutwara indege

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nurse ▶ (children's) umurēzi w'abana
(medical, male) umuforoma
(medical, female) umuforomakazi

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screen ▶ (to ~ a film) gukina

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devil ▶ ishetani, satani

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illuminate ▶ (to) kurabagiza

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person ▶ umuntu
(bad) umubi
(Black or African) umwirabura
(cross) ibāmba
(courageous) intwāri
(dedicated to Kiranga) igihwēba, igishegu
(dishonest) igihūmbu
(elderly) umusāza
(fearful) igihumura
(from far away) umunyankīko
(good, kind, just, holy, righteous) umwerānda
(grammar, ~ of verb) umuvugwa
(handsome) umuhizi
(hard to get along with) ikigoryi
(harsh) umuhāmbāzi
(honest, speaking truth) imvugakuri, umunyakuri
(honorable) umupfāsoni, umwūbahwa, nyakubahwa
(intelligent, skilled, eloquent) umuhānga
(kind and charitable) umukūndanyi
(lovable) umunyagikūndiro
(malformed) ikirema
(mean and quarrelsome) ikijōra
(meek) umugwanēza
(merciful) umunyembabazi
(miserable) umugōrwa
(of high rank, noble character) umupfāsoni
(of nice disposition) ikirende
(one by himself) inyakamwe
(sharp) inkazi
(skillful) umuntu w'inkuba, umugesera
(strong) umunyenkomezi
(stubborn) intakonywa, intābwīrwa
(tall, fat) ikigwīnyīra
(weak) umugoyigoyi, urudēndevu
(white) umuzungu, umwera
(who is great, severe, wise) akaranda
(with many children) umurēngera
(worthy of praise or love) umunyagikūndiro

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kick ▶ (to ~) gutēra umugere
(violently, as child does) gusyēgenya

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lie ▶ (to ~ about waiting on someone) kugangarara
(to ~ around ill long time) kuvūnda
(to ~ down) kuryāma
(to ~ down on the back) kugarama
(to ~ fallow) gusiba
(to ~ in wait for) kuryāmira, kugēnza
(to ~ on one's face) kwūbika inda
(to ~ on one's side) gucurama

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work ▶ (to ~) gukora
(at several tasks at once) kujuragira
(carelessly wanting to quit) kuregarega
(complainingly) kugimīra
(for king, chief) gusasa ibwāmi
(for oneself) kwīkorera
(hard) gucumukura, gutama
(hard at) kuramiriza
(lazily) kuregarega
(rapidly) gufuruguta
(together) gukorana
(unwillingly, complainingly) kunyinkira, kugimīra
(with earnestness) gushira igikonyo
(with wood) kubāza
(with zeal) gushira igikonyo
(to cease, go home from) kugodoka
(to ~ for another without approval) kuruhira
(to do housework) kugora
(to feign) gushaza
(to put to) kwāhura
(to not keep at the job faithfully) gutenzekanya
(to try to get out of, pretend to work) gushaza
(to have ~ in one place many years) kuzyātira

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cry ▶ (to ~, weep) kurira, kwāna, kwānira
(to give ~ of alarm) gukoma induru
(to give startled ~) gutura ubuku
(to sob silently) gupfunagira
(out) kuyogora
(out for help) kuborōga
(to ~, young about to die) kwānāna

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burn ▶ (vi) gusha
(and break off, tree, etc.) gutemuka
(easily, quickly, vi) gutemuka
(food, vi) kuzigira
(food slightly, vi) kuyēnga
(incense, nice smelling bark) kwōsa
(in the mouth) gukera
(let burn) kuzigiza
(quickly, vt) kubabura
(up, vt) guturira, kuyigiza
(to peel after a burn) kwūburuka
(to put something cool on a burn) gupfuvya

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tied ▶ (to be) guhāmbīrwa, kubohwa
(to be ~ with) kubohēshwa
(to be ~ as goat) kuzirikwa
(to be easily ~) kuboheka
(to come un~) kubohōka

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plant ▶ (to ~) gutēra
(to ~ broadcast) kumījīra
(first) gushūza
(small seeds) kubiba
(to be loaded with fruits or grain) gutēngerera
(to be lush and green) gutotahara
(to come up thickly and thus not do well) gusorora
(to have abundant leaves and branches) gusagaba
(to help ~, throw beans in soil as other hoes) gutēragira
(to put forth branches) gushamika
(to put out big spreading branches) gusagarara, gutabarara
(to send forth shoots) gutōha

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