V.3. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 3/10 (kil-kis)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– kila (bila) : thing, object
– (ki)labi : thief / a good rifle, a good gun / Rabbi, master
– (ki)laki : attachment, tie, pearl, bead, toupee, quiff, tuft of hair
– (ki)lambu : space-time
– kilamizidi : TV channel, television set
– kilandi : deputy, alternate
– kilanga : chicanery, quibbling, that-invites-crime / jealousy / great caution in work
– (ki)langu : pearl in a tuft of hair on the neck or on the forehead / stain, blob, blot, splash / trunk
– (ki)langu : place near a market where palm wine is drunk
– kilansi : provinces, native land, autonomous state
– kilari : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Balari
– (ki)lavadelo / (ki)lavendelo (bilavadelo / bilavendelo) : launderer, washerwoman, laundress
– (ki)lavi (bilavi) : beggar
– kilawi : vile person, mean person, contemptible person, despicable person
– (ki)lawu / (ki)lawuki (bilawu / bilawuki) : mad person, insane, idiot, fool, imbecile, crazy, nut
– (ki)lawu : madness, insanity, lunacy, dementia, mental disorder, delirium, unbalanced anger
– (ki)lazi (bilazi) : chief’s house, house where goods are specially kept
– kileke : childhood, youth / child / blow, knock, point, sting, chest pain
– kilekete : obstinacy, stubbornness / the one who goes to pillage / legionary ant, travelling ant
– (ki)leki : sensual person / set day, set date / warning, prior information
– kileko / kilekua (bileko / bilekua) : place to sleep, accommodation, safe place
– kileko / kilekua (bileko/bilekua) : article, product, object, thing, element
– (ki)lekolo : lodging, den, lair, resting place
– (ki)lela : something hanging, end of something / lie, useless chatter / clever thief, pickpocket
– (ki)lele : danger, something dangerous to touch, taboo object to take
– (ki)lema : load, weight / round and smooth stone that can be used for massaging / albino
– kilembe / kimpoko : slowness, gentleness, calmness, stillness, silence
– (ki)lembe-lembe : impossibility
– (ki)lembo : small fish trap / sort of large trap that is placed in the middle of the current / basket
– kilemfu : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Balemfu
– kilendi : deputy, assistant, substitute
– kilendo : hatred, enmity, disdain, contempt
– kilenga : habit, custom / lazybones, poor man, destitute person, person devoid of everything
– (ki)lenga-lenga : blunted state
– kilengene : vagrant, vagabond, homeless person
– (ki)lengezia : magnificent object, precious object / dear, beloved
– kilengi : patient / sick person treated with the help of fetishes / child who is helped to be born
– (ki)lengidika : hypocrite, flatterer
– kilengila : delay, slowness / kite
– kilengisa : shortness of breath, breathlessness, fatigue, exhaustion / restless mind
– (ki)lengisa : habit of lingering, habit of dawdling / cause of a delay
– kilengo : peace, peaceful character
– (ki)lengua : funnel made with a leaf
– kileso (bileso) : lesson, duty
– (ki)leta : letter, epistle
– (ki)lewa (bilewi) : thing spotted with red / red spot on the body
– (ki)lezi (bilezi) : child, boy, girl / younger brother / servant / state employee / subordinate
– kiliya : client, customer
– kiloba : green mud in the water
– kiloka : witchcraft, spell, enchantment / power to “eat” (kill) mystically
– (ki)loko : thing, object
– kilokolua : hour, moment, instant
– kilombo : refuge, shelter, hostel, inn, logis, camp, hospitality / army, band, herd, caravan
– (ki)lombo (bilombo) : payment for a trial, compensation to be paid for damage / choir
– (ki)lombo : child considered as the incarnation of an water sprite bringing good luck
– kilongianu : remedy, cure, medicine, drug, medication
– kilongokelo : school
– kilota : delirium / clitoris
– kilotela : nightmare while sleeping
– kilotila : which is very burnt, which is scorched
– kilu : weight, load, respect, consideration
– kiluazi : palm wine drawer
– (ki)luazu : tool, instrument, weapon, machine, device
– (ki)lubiki : clever, wily, cunning, crafty
– (ki)ludi : truth, reality, clarity, clearness, obviousness / certainty, safety, goodness
– (ki)ludi : law, the law, justice, equity, equitableness, fairness
– (ki)ludikilua : rule, law, norm, standard
– kilumbu : day / cemetery, place where the dead are buried
– (ki)lundi : hiding place / memory, ability to remember, quick-wittedness / kind of fabric
– (ki)lundu (bilundu) : meteor / sound of gunshot
– (ki)lundulu : warehouse, food storage room, pantry, wardrobe, shop, store
– kilunga : even number / peril, danger, imminence of danger / satisfaction, accomplishment
– (ki)lungu (bilungu) : meteor, stony meteorite
– (ki)lungu : wicked, angry, quarrelsome man / crime, offense, misdemeanour, fault, sin, injustice
– kilunza (bilunza) : body of a dead man dressed and adorned like a great person
– (ki)lunzi : cheerfulness, good mood / brusqueness, pettiness / wit, intelligence, knowledge
– (ki)lunzi : life, existence
– kima (bima) : thing, object
– kimaka : spirit, ghost, optical illusion, wonderful phenomenon, amazing show
– kimalumalu : makeshift vehicle that runs fast and is used to transport people
– kimama : statue, humain representation
– kimangala : wonderful vision
– kimanianga : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Bamanianga
– kimantinu : step, ladder, escalator, elevator
– kimayala : politics
– kimazayu : science
– kimbabazi : cruelty, brutality, desire to hurt, desire to harm
– kimbabu : deceit, deception, fraud, swindle, dishonesty, unfair taunting, unjust mockery
– kimbadi : messenger, representative, envoy, guest
– kimbala-mbala : papyrus basket
– kimbambala : rolling wreck, vehicle in poor condition
– kimbanda : rivalry, opposition / diviner
– kimbangi : testimony, statement, deposition / hostility, enmity, discord / deception, deceit
– kimbangu : ability, skill, dexterity, ingenuity, cleverness / square lidded basket
– kimbangula : ability, skill, genius, ingenuity / change, variation
– kimbangumuna : variability of speech / conjugation / somersault, pirouette
– kimbangumuna : sum, total, total sum / small tattoo on the navel
– kimbawu : hearth, fireplace, woodshed, stake
– kimbemba : lazy person, lazybones, person of leisure / who leaves his things lying around
– kimbeni : enmity, hostility
– kimbenza : justice, the law
– kimbevo : illness, sick state
– kimbisu : destitution / greens, raw vegetables
– kimbizi : bestiality, animal nature
– kimbodila : humus, rot, decay
– kimboko : fees of lawyer or intermediary / mediator, intermediary, pledge
– kimbola : rotating solidarity system for the execution of field work
– kimbongila : whirlwind, hurricane, squall, gust of wind, tornado, cyclone
– kimbongo : banking, bank
– kimbuani : meeting
– kimbuki : recovery, cure, science of healing, medicine
– kimbuku : district, territory
– kimbulangana : chance encounter
– kimbulu : cunning character, ability, jackal’s mischief, fox’s cunning / crafty or wily manners
– kimbumba : high ground, pile of earth, heap of soil in which manioc is planted
– kimbumba : pregnant woman/ pottery work
– kimbumbudi : early in the morning
– kimbundu : as a bloc, united, in mass, together / nice and clean house / tuft, crest
– kimbundi : link, relationship, liaison, cohesion, connection / piece of fabric six yards long
– kimbutiki : maternity
– kimene : the day after tomorrow
– kimene-mene : morning / beginning of the disease / small fly or mosquito that stings
– kimenga : blood sacrifice, immolation, oblation / animal intended for sacrifice / frying pan
– kimeni : state of being fixed, of being firm, state of being solid as a rock / plant
– kimenta : land around the house
– kimenzami : idleness, good for nothing, lazy person, lazybones
– kimeta : metric system
– kimfiku : tenacity in the face of difficulty
– kimfikula : investigation, inquiry, research, discovery, exposure
– kimfini : neighborhood, proximity, adjacency, contiguity, immediate surroundings
– kimfinia / kimfiti / kimfuenene / kimfietene / kimfuetene : pinching, nipping, pinch
– kimfiti : insatiability, sulkiness
– kimfuelele : perseverance, firmness, taste for action, liking for action
– kimfuetete : attribute of smallness, tiny, minute, minuscule / species of small ant
– kimfuilu : large shield, great shield
– kimfuita : idol / spoiled wife / quick-tempered person / excluded thing or person
– kimfuitila : quick-tempered person
– kimfumfu : persistence, constancy, steadiness, firmness, zeal, ardour
– kimfumu : leadership, authority, power, reign, governance, government
– kimfumu : nobility, nobleness, monarchy, kingship, dignity, high office, high position
– kimfunia : malice, malevolence, ill intent, evil intention, plot, machination, desire to destroy
– kimfunia : envy, jealousy
– kimfuta / kikuma : cause, reason, argument / motive, fault, sin / justification, excuse / evidence
– kimfuta-mfuta : small gift
– kimfutika : chapter, verse
– kimfuzi : courage, boldness, liveliness, enthusiasm, tenacity, zeal, assiduity
– kiminu : faith, trust
– kimoko (bimoko) : talk, chat
– kimolo : laziness, idleness, lethargy, weakness, cowardice
– (ki)momo : immobility, inertia, inaction, stupor, astonishment
– kimona : newness, (in) new condition
– kimona-meso : visual evidence, appearance in broad daylight, tangible evidence
– kimonokuame : self-centeredness
– kimosi : in person, oneself, uniqueness
– kimoyo : life, vitality / raw state, uncooked state
– kimoyo / kimoya : alive, state of being alive
– kimpa : acting, sketch, theatre scene / riddle, mystery / fable, tale, story
– kimpa : fun, gymnastics / trick, deception / instrument
– kimpadi : swaggering, ostentation, bragging, boasting, bravado
– kimpaka-mpaka : subject of endless disputes
– kimpala : envy, jealousy, love rivalry / swaggering / branch / pigeon species
– kimpalu : miraculous vision, fantastic sight, fantastic scene, ghost, phantom, apparition
– kimpalu : hairs and tattoo of the navel / chasing, chiselling, ornament in relief / tile
– kimpamba : ability to climb / object placed around the waist to climb into a palm tree
– kimpambala : strand
– kimpambu : bud / iron cowbell / ring
– kimpambudi : lonely, lonesome, solitary
– kimpambuila : sharing, division, branch, tributary
– kimpampa : miracle, witchcraft / conventions for a wedding
– kimpampa : kind of roots that are crushed in order to make a scented ointment
– kimpampa : young tree / mushroom-shaped termite mound / black ant nest
– kimpamu : miracle
– kimpanga : miracle, remarkable accident / almond / kind of handcuffss / stretcher
– kimpangala : dilapidated house, ruin, unfinished construction / destitution
– kimpangi : brotherhood
– kimpangudi : separation
– kimpangula : witchcraft, magic, prodigy, wonder / spell, divination / extraordinary fact
– kimpangutu : thin support, stake, thin pole ending with a fork to prop up
– kimpanina : generosity
– kimpasa / kimpaza : fish trap
– kimpasi / kimpasa : secret society for initiation to Kongo spirituality
– kimpata : sheath, case, scabbard / species of fish
– kimpati : stubbornness, obstinacy, insistence on pursuing or bothering someone
– kimpati : power or gift of consecrating fetishes / larva serving as a magical medicine
– kimpaya : blow struck on a leaf placed on the hand to predict
– kimpekelekesa : ceremony
– kimpeku : wind / flag, something floating in the wind
– kimpela : something that desecrates the marabout
– kimpele : bushfire
– kimpene : nudity, nakedness
– (ki)mpenene : lust, desire for the good of others
– kimpesi : way of dancing, drum with a small hole / person who is not a witch
– kimpeve : spiritual form, spirituality
– kimpikiti : great fear, fright
– kimpilu : monster, deformed child, child with arched legs / hen with erect feathers
– kimpindi : idol / something unknown, mystery / recurring thing / desaster, great misfortune
– kimpo : prophecy, prediction, omen / division of time defined according to the circumstances
– kimpo / kimpoba : empty shell of an undeveloped peanut
– kimpola-nkanu : rebelliousness, insubordination, vicious character, vicious nature
– kimpombo : leniency, gentleness, humility, humbleness, restraint, moderation, soberness
– kimpombo / kimpombolo / kimpompi / kimpompo : greatness, size
– kimpompo : chatter, gossip, action of tittle-tattling
– kimpoto : slowness, laziness, inertia
– kimpovi / kimpoyi : eloquence, art of pleading / costs of a lawsuit
– kimpovila : desire to talk, irrepressible desire for chattering / lawyer, intercessor, mediator
– kimpoza : last fruits of a tree, late harvest
– kimpozi : shade
– kimpua : friendship between the two married to each other’s brother and sister
– kimpua : resemblance, likeness, equality
– kimpuaka : person devoid of everything, dead loss, unimportant thing, worthless card, loser
– kimpuala : deception, lies
– kimpuangala : shed, shelter, hangar / dilapidated house, ruined house, unfinished construction
– kimpuanza : independence, freedom, sovereignty
– kimpuka : cave, cavern, part of a cave / attic, garret / flag, banderole, banner / ruse, swindle
– kimpuka / kimpukanga : great sensuality, excessive voluptuousness
– kimpuka : heap of tapioca
– kimpumbulu : thug, outlaw, person who behaves like a wild animal
– kimpumpa : celibacy / uses, practices, manners or rights related to celibacy, prostitution
– kimpumpa : something put on top to serve as a cover or shelter / hide cover, leather cover
– kimpumpu : shed, hangar, roof with one or more temporary walls / refuge of spirit fish
– kimpuni : liar
– kimuala : line made on the body / loincloth
– kimuana : filiation, parentage, childhood, childish habits, childish character / candor, naivety
– (ki)muanda (bimuanda) : flower-bed, vegetable square
– (ki)muanga / (ki)muangina : shot, lead shot, small shot, bird shot
– (ki)muesa : vision, visible thing
– (ki)muindi : short tail / fish or animal without tail
– kimuivi : habit of committing thefts, kleptomania
– kimuntu / kiwuntu : humanity, compassion, charity, quality of human being, human nature
– kimvondi : criminal nature, crime, delinquency
– kimvuama : wealth, possessions, assets, production, economy
– kimvuami : cupidity, greed, desire for possession
– kimvuenze / kimvuenzi : humility, humbleness, respectful submissiveness
– kimvuka : meeting, union, group, association, set, whole, total, sum
– kimvula : anniversary
– kimvundu : surprise, astonishment / child born after a long period of infertility
– kimvungutu : rumor going around, hearsay / kind of yam
– kimvutu : answer, reply, response
– kinaka : skill, dexterity, subtlety / part of something, thing, object / limb of the body, organ
– kinami : member, follower, adherent, courier, companion
– kinana : tenacity, stubbornness / covetousness / well-trained person, persevering person
– kinana : octagon, byte, set of eight elements
– kinanga : wealth, advantages, benefits, prerogatives of a good quality man
– kinanga : ascent, climbing / slavery, servitude
– kinani / kinaniyo : a certain, so-and-so, term that replaces a name that we no longer remember
– kinati : carrier
– kinati-maza : water carrier, the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, constellation of Aquarius
– kinati-nkutu : servant, minion, flunkey
– kinatinu : way of carrying, means of transporting objects or people
– kindenda / kindende : small piece of wood, stick, twig
– kindende : kid, child, toddler, little boy, little girl, teenager, virgin girl / maid, servant
– kindeso (bindeso) : addition, supplement
– kindezi / kindesi : recognition, goodwill / children’s maid, nanny, educationalist, pedagogue
– kindiafu : greediness, voracity, gluttony, avidity, covetousness
– kindibu : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Bandibu
– kindima : laziness, slowness, tranquility, inertia / aversion, dislike, disgust, repulsion
– kindinga : friendship, kindness, gentleness, hospitality / benevolent person, peaceful person
– kindinga : quagmire, bog, slough, pool, pond, water hole / deep pit, cave, cavern
– kindobika : dance performed by jerky movements at the hips
– kindoki : witchcraft, genius, expertise
– kindokila : snapping of the fingers, clicking of the tongue
– kindonga : beginner, apprentice
– kindotila (bindotila): mania of talking in one’s sleep, somnambulism, sleepwalking, nightmare
– kindotila / kindoti : musing, daydream, reverie, imagination, hallucination, delusion, delirium
– kinduelo : little, tiny
– kindumba : prostitution
– kindundu : clearness, clear complexion, skin colour of albinos / gall
– kinduvu : drunkenness, alcoholism, intemperance, greediness, gluttony, voracity, avidity
– (ki)nengo : high fertility, great fertility
– (ki)nesi : pride
– kinga (binga) : torch / flame / discord, fire, spirit, eagerness, ardour, heat, temperature / bicycle
– kingamata : gendarmerie, police force
– kingamba : enslavement, slave state
– (ki)ngana : adage, proverb, common saying, fable, allegory, legend, parable, tale, story
– kingandi : so-and-so
– kinganga : expertise, mystique, practice of fetishism, the art of healing through plants
– kingeziki : ingineering
– Kingilu : Pluto
– kingolo : constraint, coercion
– kingongo : fear, fright, terror
– kingudia : treachery
– kinguedi : chatter, cackle, cackling, prattling, babbling, gossip / potato in general
– kinguedi : touchiness, irritability / rude person / cleanliness, cleanness, exactness, sharpness
– kinguela : incision, notch, cut / notched ornament / stripe on a drum
– kingulungulu : friction drum
– kingundu : aerolite, stony meteorite, fireball / dynamite blow, loud noise of a gunshot
– kingundu : wax spoon, crucible, mould / small calabash for the drawing of palm wine
– kingundu : ball, globe, sphere / nodule under the skin, nodule on the neck
– kingutu : arthritic knot, knot on a tree
– kinguzi : : radio broadcasting, radio receiver
– kinguzi : radio and television channel, broadcast channel
– kinguzisala : radioacitvity
– kini (bini) : shadow, reflexion, image, portrait
– kiniafuni : help, assistance
– kiniama : animality, matter
– kiniambi : morning drizzle
– kiniani : leader, guide
– kiniemokono : press, something used to press, something used to squeeze out
– kiniemono : press / printing
– kinienge : sand / cassette
– (ki)nienie : who likes to bargain, who likes to haggle / miserliness, avarice / apostrophe
– (ki)nieta : piece of tree used to press into an animal trap
– (ki)nietokono : printing press, copying press
– kinima : back slang, language using words whose syllables are reversed
– kininga : ability to carry something on one’s head without holding / slimming product
– (ki)ningina : which is small
– (ki)ningisi : thin thing
– (ki)nini : economy, prudence, greed
– kiniumba-lemba : mask
– kiniunga : melancholy
– kinkabila / kinkayila / kinkanzi : generosity
– kinkakasa : fortress, castle
– kinkala : very old person
– kinkama : hundred, century
– kinkamala : democracy
– kinkamfi : shortness of growth
– kinkanzi : generosity
– kinkasa : strength, solidity, fixity, steadiness, tenacity, hardness / bitterness, sourness, tartness
– kinkasi : splinters bound by a tie, broken vase
– kinkati : straw layer on a roof
– kinkatu : nothingness, void, nothing at all
– kinkaya : generosity, munificence / kinship
– kinkazi : middle age, age of reason / valour, courage
– kinkeba : care, protection, avarice, miserliness, thrift, tendency to save up
– kinkebo : growth deficiency / tightness of a garment / taste for cleanliness
– kinkedi : salute of the head, angle of the head with click of the tongue
– kinkediba : mania for quarreling, for arguing
– kinkedo : clicking of the tongue
– kinkeka : childhood, infancy, early age
– kinkekele : short stature, dwarfism
– kinkela : first or highest string of a musical instrument, highest note of a musical instrument
– kinkelekese : shrinking, stunting, shrivelling, shortness of stature, dwarfism, thinness, slimness
– kinkelekete / kinkelete : very old person
– kinkembele : small bell, sleign bell, doorbell / sixth finger
– kinkemi : anger, fury, irritable or irascible temperament, bad mood
– kinkempekete : block / plump person / dwarf tree
– kinkena : tendency to haggle over everything
– kinkenda : sadness / fright, great fear, terror, dread, consternation, dismay
– kinkenda : part, portion, piece of something / extension, piece intended to be added
– (ki)nkende : proud person, arrogant person / pretty thing, attractive thing, ornament
– (ki)nkendende : baby who can’t stop crying
– (ki)nkenga : attention, vigilance, watchfulness
– kinkenza : skinny and short person
– kinkesi : anger, irascible character, violent disposition, irritability, fearlessness, intrepidity
– kinkeso : piece, part of something
– kinketa : subtlety, cunning, clandestine action / ability, skill, extreme dexterity
– kinkete / kinketi : ability, art, craft, skill, dexterity / dignity, honesty / mercy, pity
– kinkete / kinketi : benefit / person who does beautiful things / craftsman, artist
– kinketila : ability to do something good, clean or beautiful
– kinkeya : indiscretion, unhealthy curiosity, irrepressible desire to talk, babbling, chatter
– kinkiba : odd habit of prowling, odd habit of walking here and there / nomadic, itinerant
– kinkima : antics, manners similar to those of the monkey
– kinkimba : language, manners or mysteries of the disciples of the Nkimba secret society
– kinkimba : Nkimba academy, initiation school to the Nkimba secret society
– kinkimfi : state of a thing that is short, shortness, smallness, small person, short person
– kinkimu : strength, energy
– kinkinda : strength, energy / kind of exorcism
– kinkinda-nkinda : consistency, solid form
– kinkindibidi : monster without arms or legs
– kinkindula : somersault, tumble
– kinkita : ruse, trick, deceit / revolt, anarchy / trade, commerce / spirit that lives near water
– kinkitu : fear, dread, fright / treachery, betrayal, tendency to shirk / desire
– kinkitu : variability, fluctuation, instability, uncertainty, inconstancy
– kinko : corner, wedge, tent stake / handcuff / nicotine, pipe deposit
– kinkobe : fat person, corpulent person, stout person, obese person
– kinkobo : fatness, corpulence, stoutness, obesity, overweight, musculature
– kinkobo : corpulent person, stout person, muscular person, obese person
– kinkodi : cord, string
– kinkodia : snapping of the fingers and thumb / rifle, shotgun, pistol, gun
– kinkodisa : parsimony, meanness, pettiness, avarice, stinginess
– kinkodo : hollow
– kinkodunga : hole or hollow in the ground
– kinkofi / kinkufi : smallness, defect in size, defect in length / person of small stature
– kinkofi / kinkofia : strong clap with the thumb on the head to kill lice
– (ki)nkoki : hook
– kinkokila : amulet
– kinkokoto : avarice, stinginess, excessive economy, greed / tendency to deprive oneself of food
– kinkole : slavery, servitude
– kinkomfi : smallness / dwarf / snapping of the thumb on the head to kill lice
– kinkonga : nudity, nakedness
– kinkongo : skill to shooting, ability to aim accurately
– kinkonko : increase, extra, addition / prescription, rule, regulation, expression of one’s will
– kinkonzo : ugliness, state of something that is very wrinkled, very creased or very crumpled
– kinkonzo : elderly person with very wrinkled skin
– kinkosi : region, province
– kinkuamba : rapidity, speed, celerity, fast walking
– kinkuikisi / kinkuizi / kinkuisi : faithfulness, fidelity, constancy
– kinkuivi : dictatorship
– kinkulu : tradition, custom, authenticity, history
– kinkumba : swirling wind, whirlpool of water / chasm, abyss / virgin
– kinkumbi : deception
– kinkumbila : rain, sound of rain
– kinkumpi : direction / antlion larva
– kinkumvungulu : smallness, small, short or little man / end of an arm, short and wide thing
– kinkundi : parasite
– kinkundubulu : hill, slope, small height, rise, mound, elevation / monster without arms or legs
– kinlongo : temple, place of religious education / holiness
– (ki)nnienge / (ki)nniengese : sandy land, sandy earth, sandy soil, sandbank
– (ki)nnieta : person who likes to cry, whiner, sniveller, crybaby
– kinono : cause, reason / scar / oily tear of the skin / bad body odour
– kinsala : wreath of a tree, foliage of a palm tree / winged termite
– kinsalaza : exercise
– kinsamfi : osier branch, withy, switch, stick / snapping of fingers
– kinsamu : tale, fable
– kinsangi : mixture, complexity, complicated thing / cassava distributed to workers
– kinsansi : maracas, hand percussion instrument
– kinsasa : initiation school
– kinse : army corps, detachment of soldiers / raw vegetable
– kinseka : clayey earth from which we obtain a toilet powder for the skin and hair
– kinseki : skill, ability or gift to strike up a song or to lead a choir
– kinsekua : bed bug, parasite
– kinseloka : gesture
– kinsemi : creation
– kinsemo : first-born, elder / customs concerning the eldest child, law of primogeniture
– kinsena : rolling up, curling up
– kinsense : eyes watering, tearfulness
– kinsenseva / kinseva-nseva : desire of laughing
– kinsesa : avarice, stinginess
– kinsesi : manners and peculiarities of the antelope / survival instinct, alertness, vigilance
– kinsevila : person who laughs convulsively
– kinsibundu : federalism
– kinsiekami : seat, localization, site, reserve
– kinsila-nsila : diploma, testimony, written promise
– kinsimba : customs concerning twins, love between twins
– kinsimbi : pledge, security, mortgage, hostage
– kinsimpi : short stature
– kinsina / kinsinda : depth
– kinsi-nkulu : ancient times, the past
– kinsinsi : joy of receiving something / kind of large mat
– kinsinsia / kinsisia : shadow
– kinsinsu : event / weight, pressure, gravity / noise
– kinsinzu : marvel, wonder, marvellous thing, wonderful thing
– kinsiona : loneliness, abandonment, orphan state
– kinsisa / kinsisia : shadow / surprise, astonishment, amazement / worthless man, weathercock
– kinsueki : in camera, hiding place, clandestinity, confidentiality, secret, private, intimacy
– kinsuekila : present, gift / secret payment, clandestine salary / mystery, confidence, secret
– kinsuena / kinsuenina : permeability, fluidity, ability to flow drop by drop
– kinsuka : security, pledge / lie, falsehood / extremity, end
– kinsukidi : temperance, abstinence
– kinsukina : end, tail
– kinsumba : jump, leap, bound, spring
– kinsunga : hatred, hate, jealousy, envy
– kinsungila : insomnia, sleepless night, wakefulness / nursing pay / vigilance, supervision
– kinsuza : prostitution, lust, debauchery, easy virtue
– kinta : friendship, relationship
– kintandu : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Bantandu
– kintawudi / kintawuzi : childishness, silliness, foolishness stupidity, mischievous trick
– kintekoto : trembling, quivering, shiver
– kintete : priority, primacy, supremacy, precedence / beginning, start, origin, principle
– kintewa : harmful character
– kinti : nature of a plant
– kintialungu : dash, hyphen
– kintiana : proof of friendship
– kintiba : firmness, persistence, persistency
– kintiengi : debauchery, dissolute life, adultery, licentiousness
– kintietie : fear, agitation, restlessness, anxiety, uneasiness, worry / little passerine
– kintinu : kingdom, monarchy
– kintiya : insomnia, sleepless night / night watchman
– kintombo : first rains and sowing season
– kintona : empiricism, experience through practice
– kintongi : ardour, insistence, tenacity
– kintongo : nudge, poke with the elbow
– kintuadi : group, union, society, association, community, brotherhood, companionship
– kintuala / kintuama : priority, state of being first, state of coming in first
– kintuanga : quarrelsome mood
– kintuazi : presidency
– kintueka : playing a trick, skill game / hair crest from the forehead to the nape of the neck
– kintuema / kintuenginia : tendency to pant, to be out of breath, to lose one’s breath
– kintuemisa / kintue-kintue : act of harassing with questions or demanding a debt
– kintuenia : youth, young age
– kintuentue : tendency to pant, to be out of breath, to lose one’s breath / fear, dread
– kintumba : thing that we put on top to cover / leather sheath for flintlock rifle
– kintumba : painting, picture / image, portrait / species of rat
– kintumbila : pile of grass that we cover with earth and that we burn before burying seeds in it
– kintumua : mission, duty, obligation, responsibility, ministry
– kintumukina : agreement
– kintungi : right of the origin place, residence, domicile, home / bourgeoisie / difficulty, trouble
– kintungila : column of smoke, column-shaped cloud / rain cloud, nimbus
– kintungu : what is being realized, which is being accomplished or which is being built
– kintungu-ntungu : small construction
– kintunta : speed / hill, slope, heap
– (ki)ntuntibila : small hill, small rise in the ground, mound, hillock, knoll, slope, heap
– kintuntu : act of coming ahead of everyone, act of being a forerunner, spirit of revolution
– (ki)ntuntubulu : small hill, small rise in the ground, mound, hillock, knoll, slope, heap
– kinuani : warrior, fighter, combatant
– kinunu : elderly person, old man
– kinza : pride, vanity, desire to appear, ostentation / love of beauty, taste for the ornaments
– kinza : worldliness, what is earthly / respect
– kinzambi-nzambi : sect, for-profit church
– kinzenza : foreigner status, diaspora
– kinziokoto : penchant for very spicy food / exclusive taste, insatiable appetite
– kinziongo : pinching, nipping
– kinziongololo : circle, circumference / roundabout, round hole / whirlwind, swirl, whirlpool
– kinziototo / kinkokoto : extreme avarice, extreme miserliness
– kinzonia : insignia
– kinzonzi : palaver, conciliation talks between two families for the resolution of various disputes
– (ki)nzuiti : who is lascivious, who is lustful
– kinzuma : misfortune, misery, destitution, calamity, disaster, torment, torture
– kinzumba : wages, pay / harvest salary in kind
– kinzundu : pressure, constraint, coercion
– kinzunga : round thing / bocage / solitude, loneliness, isolation / cassava leaves boiled
– kinzungidila : entourage, vicinity, surroundings, suburbs
– kioko : steam bath, fumigation / bad breath / barking / first amniotic membrane
– kiololo : cry, clamour, applause / partridge
– kioto : quantity, mass, abundance / steam bath, warming pan / leafy boughs, roof of leaves
– kiototo : humidity, dampness, moistness, clamminess, wetness, mugginess / humour
– kiozi : cold
– kipa : rag, strip of fabric, piece of woven canvas / team
– (ki)padi : morning, daybreak, dawn
– (ki)pakasi : pocket, cartridge pouch, cartridge belt
– (ki)paki (bipaki) : stain / bailer, bark scoop / piece of cloth less than six foot
– kipamu : surprise, start, jump, startle of fright / promptness, quickness, swiftness, agility
– (ki)pashala / kipasula : tear in a fabric, hole in a garment
– kipelekese : panic, trouble, mental confusion, mental disorder
– kipelo : mirror, pane of glass, transparent glass, spectacle, eyeglasse, spec
– kipemo : jump, leap, bound, spring
– (ki)pepele : lightness, thinness
– kipodi : credit granted without interest provided that it is paid within the agreed deadlines
– kipoke : gene, genetics
– kipoke-mona : new gene
– (ki)pokongo : exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness, weariness
– (ki)pokosi / (ki)pokoti : pocket, cartridge pouch
– (ki)ponza (biponza) : bow / trap made of wood splinters / bad rifle
– kipoyi / tshipoyi : sedan chair, stretcher
– kisadi : servant, worker, employee
– kisadilu : work instrument, tool
– kisaka (bisaka) : long cone, kind of cone-shaped fish trap / sieve, riddle, screen, sifter, strainer
– (ki)sakesa : toy, object that is used to play / joke, insult
– (ki)saki : bunch, bundle, packet, group, ball, cluster, ear of corn / pearl necklace / sieve
– kisakila : bundle, handful, cluster, bunch
– kisakudi : something you don’t want to eat because it has been soiled / owl
– kisakununu : toy
– kisala-sala : operation, work, exercise, ceremony / love of work
– (ki)salu : work, activity, occupation, mission, duty, task / profession, trade, job, function, role
– (ki)salu / (ki)salu-salu : multitude, quantity, number, crowd
– kisalu (bisalu) : instrument / household utensil / material for building the house
– (ki)salu (bisalu / masalu) : rifle butt
– kisama : termite mound, pyramid
– kisamba : praetorship, dignity of the lender
– kisamba : piece of a cord, piece of a string / tail, panel, section, basque, piece of a fabric
– kisambu (bisambu) : prayer
– (ki)sambudulu : place of worship, place of adoration, chapel, temple, church, altar
– kisamu : danger
– (ki)samuku (bisamuku) : cap, top, stopper, plug, bung, cork, foliage bung
– (ki)sanga (bisanga) : island, islet / islet of brush, unburned grass, mound of grass
– (ki)sanga: grove in an open plain, bocage, copse, small cloud in the sky / summit, peak, ridge
– kisanganza : galaxy
– (ki)sangi (bisangi) : small wood, small stick / orchard
– (ki)sangilila (bisangilila) : mixture
– kisansi : kind of portable musical instrument, lamellophone
– (ki)sansu : education / economy / administration, board of directors / management, conduct
– (ki)sanzi (bisanzi) : marimba game
– (ki)sasu : part
– (ki)sawu : kind of dance, drum / kind of game with songs for women or girls
– (ki)sawu : parable, riddle, mystery, tale, fable, anecdote, story
– (ki)sawu / kinsava : grimace with the intention of mocking / contempt
– (ki)sebo / (ki)sebozola / (ki)sebukila : piece, crumb, fragment of something
– (ki)sebula / (ki)sebuzuka) / (ki)sebuzula) : piece, crumb, fragment of something
– (ki)seda : great insatiable hunger
– (ki)sede / (ki)sele : piece, portion, slice, piece of meat
– kisedia : early childhood, infancy
– (ki)sefulu : what is laughable, what is funny
– kiseka : soft bottom and difficult to make waterproof
– kisekete : wealth
– kisekidila : ornament, embellishment, adornment, decoration, decor
– (ki)sekokelo : mobility
– kisela (bisela) : sea sail / piece
– (ki)sele : tree trunk placed under a dugout canoe to make it roll towards the watercourse
– kisele : material
– kiselo : Orient, East / servant, domestic, manservant
– (ki)sembo / (ki)sembu / (ki)sembua (bisembo) : spur
– (ki)sengo / (ki)sengwa : metal, iron, metal object
– kisenso / kisensula : happiness, luck, prosperity, good fortune
– kisensolo : port, landing site, landing place
– kisi : of/from (place)
– (ki)siama : height of a person
– (ki)siatu : insulting term, abusive term, insult, invective, abuse / defamation, slander
– kisiba : curse
– kisida : accident
– (ki)sie : kindness, friendliness
– kisiedi / kisieli : romantic relationship, love affair
– kisiefi : leadership, quality of leader, command function, position of leader
– (ki)siekete (bisiekete) : stubbornness, obstinacy, intractability, recalcitrant mood
– (ki)siekete : size, greatness, large capacity / interweaving, network of rushes on a calabash
– (ki)sielekete : of the nature of dwarfs
– (ki)sielo (bisielo) : servant, domestic, manservant / slave / brightness, pallor, whitish color
– (ki)sielo (bisielo) : palm wine drawer / small calabash used to draw palm wine
– kisika (bisika) : place, spot, empty space, unoccupied seat, space left free by someone
– (ki)siki : stump not pulled up from a palm tree or a tree
– kisiki-fuka : courtesy, politeness
– (ki)siku : safe place, post, station, stop / place of residence / condom, remedy
– (ki)siku : something for holding, holding bar / well, pit / chord, musical instrument
– (ki)sikua : musical instrument
– (ki)sikukulu : armrest, support
– kisima : basin, reservoir / gushing spring / water hole, pond, sump, cistern, fountain, well
– kisimbi : guardian angel, protective genius, river nymph, elf, gnome / dwarf, fetus
– kisimbi : size, thickness, width, amplitude / whirlwind / security, pledge, souvenir
– (ki)simbole : rusticity, uncouthness, coarseness, roughness
– (ki)simbu : faculty of being able to retain something forcefully / space of time
– (ki)simbudi : who is small and skinny
– kisimu : defense, prohibition
– (ki)sina (bisina) : who gives life and raises well his young or his children / duration
– (ki)sindu / (ki)singini : stump, cut tree trunk
– (ki)singini : size, height / heel, tree stump
– (ki)singini : rich woman, woman who is active, energetic and who plows large fields
– (ki)singu : insult / curse, oath, imprecation / habit of swearing, habit of cursing
– (ki)sini : wealth
– (ki)sinini : hard object or substance, hardness, piece of metal, coin / heel
– kisinsa : friend, meeting of friends, mark of friendship / stake
– kisinsi : nationality, local customs and habits
– kisinsia : image, reflection, representation
– kisinsingidi : of short size, of short stature
– kisinsu : sign, symbol, proof, evidence, indication, clue
– kisinza : stump, rest of a tree or shrub emerging from the ground, stop, abutment
– kisinza / nzinza (bisinza) : stump
– (ki)sinzi : stump, piece of root emerging from the ground against which one stumbles
– (ki)sinzila : stump, piece of root emerging from the ground against which one stumbles
– (ki)sinzibidi : brevity, short duration, small length, concision, conciseness
– kisinzilua : pair of scales
– (ki)sinzingidi : short in stature, short size / wooden cube
– (ki)sinzu : something marvelous, wonderful, prodigious or stupendous / ghost, phantom, specter
– (ki)sisi : firebrand, half-burnt wood, half-consumed wood
– kisisia : bogey, bugbear, sth that frightens, sth that inspires fear, sth that inspires respect
– (ki)sisu : thing or being that one is afraid of / ghost, phantom, specter / fear, fright / epilepsy
– (ki)sita : sterility, barrenness, infertility, inability to bear fruit, inability to reproduce
– (ki)sita : sterile person or animal
– (ki)sitowa : store, shop
– (ki)siusiu : fixed gaze, persistent gaze
– (ki)sivi : praise, eulogy, ostentation / something liked, renowned or popular
– (ki)sivu / kisiwu : dry and cold season
– (ki)siwa : something which is done or accomplished / prescription, order, agreement, clause
– (ki)siwa : the manner in which something is done
– kisiwu : dry season, tropical winter
– (ki)soba : change, variation, alternation, mutation, evolution
– (ki)sodi : field clearer
– kisolongo : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Basolongo
– kisoma : axis / fork
– kisombe : fasting and prayer, period of deprivations, Lent
– kisompi : habit of borrowing / the one who borrows, borrower
– kisompisi (bisompisi) : borrower
– kisona : solitude, loneliness, isolation
– (ki)sonda / kitonda : strength or vigour of being able to throw a stone far away
– kisonenua : brush, paintbrush
– (ki)songi (bisongi) : person who initiates trials of old people or traditions for young people
– (ki)songi / nsongi : palm wine drawer / guide, cicerone, signpost, indicator pole
– kisongidila : counterfeiting, imitation, mimicking, mimicry
– (ki)songo (bisongo) : pointed stick, sharp stick, dagger, stiletto / paw, foot, leg
– (ki)songololo : care, attention, solicitude / distress, agitation, confusion, embarrassment, worry
– (ki)songololo : chance of always being positioned at the exit of the game
– kisoni : pencil, pen nib, pen
– (ki)sono (bisono) : thing, object, business, case, matter / letter, printing character, writing
– (ki)sonso : torch of herbs used to light a bushfire, place where such a fire is lit
– (ki)sonso : shake, jolt, jerk, jerky gesture / threat / small wood, small branch, twig, stick, log
– (ki)su : mortar / pipe / large bundle of cloth, big pack of fabric
– kisu : tree trunk designed to put in shackles the legs of a madman in order to immobilize him
– kisuenginia : great fear, fright, fear, apprehension
– (ki)suisu (bisuisu) : fixed gaze / kind of skin disease
– (ki)suka / (ki)sukila : end, tip, point, ending / tail of a bird or a fish
– kisukadi : sugar refinery
– kisuku : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Basuku
– kisula : respect, fright, fear, scare, terror / fatness, obesity / palm nut shell fragments
– (ki)sulazi : distance, direction
– (ki)sulu : habit of always showing up at people’s houses at mealtime, begging
– (ki)sulu (bisulu) : shell, scale, piece of a palm nut / dropsy of the belly
– kisumbula : accident, injury
– kisumiki : ability or skill to shoot and hit the target on the first shot
– kisumikinua : suction cup, sucker
– kisunga : attention, consideration, care / agility, vivacity, promptness / spirit, intelligence / zeal
– kisunga : distance, direction / snooze, nap
– (ki)sungi (bisungi) : season, epoch, era, period, time
– (ki)sungididi : perseverance, obstinacy, determination, zeal, assiduity, application
– (ki)susi : chance, luck, eventuality, fortuitous circumstance / misadventure, mishap, misfortune
– (ki)susi / (ki)susila / (ki)susu : something that frightens, something that scares / terrifying view
– (ki)susu : stem of the palm nut, peduncle by which the palm nut is attached to the cluster
– (ki)susula : shell, husk, scale, film, dandruff / bait
