Lugungu Dictionary Sep 2012

ku̱gu̱lu̱u̱sa
2 • lack self-control; run wild.
Syn: ku̱horoza, kujagaara, kusadamuka.
ku̱gu̱lu̱u̱sa v. grow very old and lose
strength and sometimes wisdom.
ku̱gu̱ma-gu̱mya v. console; give
comfort or sympathy to s.b. who is
unhappy or disappointed. Syn: kub̯umbab̯umba,
ku̱tatatati̱iṟya, kugaara-gaara,
kub̯uda-b̯uda.
ku̱gu̱mya 1 v. 1 • ascertain, confirm,
prove, affirm; get the actual truth of s.t.
in order to get convinced.
2 • approve; judge s.b. or s.t. to be right
or good.
3 • guarantee; promise sincerely that you
will do s.t. or that s.t. will happen.
4 • justify; assure that s.t. really it is
right by providing reasons.
Syn: ku̱nanu̱ki̱sya.
5 • just do s.t. instantly without thinking
twice.
ku̱gu̱mya 2 v. grip; hold s.t. tightly.
ku̱gu̱su̱ka 1 v. jump; push yourself
upwards and land on s.t.
ku̱gu̱su̱kiṟa v. jump for s.t.
ku̱gu̱su̱ka-gu̱su̱ka v. 1 • jump up
and down; keep on pushing yourself
up from the ground.
2 • Metaphor. wander; walk slowly
here and there without any
particular sense of purpose or
direction esp. due to idleness.
Syn: kwandaara, kwenjeera, kuhamahama,
kumanga-manga, kupaaraara,
kutaabaana, kuzengeera,
kutaaruuka.
3 • Metaphor. be sexually
promiscuous; be sexually unstable
as to go in for one after another.
Syn: kwendye-ndya, kuraaya,
kub̯unga, kurawarawa, kukora
ikunzi, kutaaruuka, kukora b̯wenzi̱.
ku̱gu̱su̱ka muguha v. skip; pass
over a rope held at both ends by
other people or held by yourself that
you keep on passing over your head.
ku̱gu̱su̱ka 2 v. See main entry: ku̱gu̱zuḵa.
ku̱gu̱su̱kya-gu̱su̱kya
Var: ku̱gu̱ruḵya-gu̱ruḵya. v. 1 • doubt,
ku̱harangani ̱a
have a divided mind; feel uncertain
about s.t.
2 • be discontented.
ku̱gu̱u̱ni ̱a v. grumble, of the stomach,
due to distension or hunger.
ku̱gu̱za v. mingle; use a mingling stick to
mix flour in boiled water in order to get
posho.
ku̱gu̱zu̱ka Var: ku̱gu̱suḵa. v. overstep;
do s.t. before doing what was supposed
to be done first.
ku̱gu̱zu̱kiṟa v. jump over s.t.
ku̱gwa v. 1 • fall, move through the air
from higher ground to lower ground.
2 • fail, not pass a test or an exam.
3 • lose an election.
kugwera v. 1 • fall down onto s.t.
2 • Idiom. kidnap; take a girl by force
in order to marry her. Syn: kuhamba.
ku̱gwa rwo Var: ku̱gwa ru̱cu̱;
ku̱gwa rwakaca. v. flop down; lie
down tired, esp. due to fatigue,
excessive sleep, hunger, etc.
Syn: kweku̱lu̱nguḻa.
ku̱gwa-gwa v. toss and turn; be
unsettled or to keep on changing
positions while you are lying on the bed
due to pain. Syn: kweguma-guma.
ku̱gwaho v. encounter; meet, discover
s.t., esp. s.t. bad, difficult, new,
unexpected, or harmful while trying to
do s.t. else.
ku̱gwangana mu salaka v. See main
entry: salaka.
ku̱gweiṟaru̱ v. be mad, crazy.
Syn: kurab̯waho, kuraruka,
kuhungutuka.
ku̱habya v. See main entry: kuhaba.
ku̱hakani ̱a Var: kuẖakani ̱sya. From:
Runyoro. v. resist, oppose, protest,
speak out against; refuse to accept s.t.
and try to stop it from happening.
ku̱halangu̱li̱iṟya v. prune; cut off
some of the branches from a tree, so
that it grows properly and straight.
Syn: kukonera, kukonda.
ku̱handya v. See main entry: kuhanda.
ku̱harangani ̱a v. See main entry:
kuharangana.
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