V.1. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 1/10 (a-dj)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– abakosi : collarless jacket created to reject the European jacket, Mao collar jacket
– angwalima : burglar, brigand named after a famous robber from the Kinois past
– asansele : elevator
– atalaku : animation cry of the Ntandu folklore, singer and dance animator initiated by Zaïko LL
– avio : plane
– avoka : lawyer
– baba (mababa) : dumb, deaf-mute / stutterer, fool, idiot / burnt peel / type of injury
– baba (mababa) : what is invulnerable, what is not yet developed / lead shot, hail of bullets
– babata (mababata) : lie, speech to clear oneself, confused words related to delirium
– bakala / yakala : male person, male, husband, spouse
– bakulu : ancestors / all (together)
– bala (mabala): small place at the crossroads where we rest and we exchange
– bala (mabala): large ring at the foot / black and white calico / scale, iron thin strip / cuirass
– bala (zibala): bed, kind of mat, place to sleep / friend, brother / ball
– bala / bana : children
– balabala : street, avenue
– balansa : pair of scales
– bale/balo : ball
– balu (mabalu) : kind of large ring at the foot of the chief / horse
– balu (mabalu) : murderer, violent man / rebel
– banata : freeloader, scrounger
– banda / yanda : valley, bottom
– banda (mabanda) : what is on top, what is extra / drum / measure, rhythm
– banda : downstream, bottom
– banda (mabanda) : large body of water, pond, swamp / place where cassava is left to soak
– bandi : bandit, thug, outlaw
– bandu : bottom, base, foot / lower extremity / cause, beginning of something, raison d’être
– bandu : taste, goodwill or good mood to do something
– bandu (mabandu) : powder measurement required for a rifle charge / plank, timber, bench
– bandu (zibandu) : state, condition, way
– banga (mabanga) : wooden construction / measurement / kind of basket, peanut basket
– banga-banga (mabanga-banga) : branches of bamboo-palm tree / pole for hammock to carry
– bangala : inclination to do harm, to make suffer, to hurt or to torture / very expensive thing
– bangi : hemp, cannabis
– bangia (mabangia) : witness
– bangu (bibangu/mabangu) : custom, habit / way of being, way of doing things
– bangu : angry person / intractability, disobedience / cruelty, inclemency / enclosure, paddock
– bangula : ability to turn things or a matter over from all sides
– bangula : hole or opening made in a roof to lift it a little
– bantu : people, humans, mankind
– banza (mabanza) : thought, reflection, opinion, proposal, proposition
– banza-banza : instability, indecisiveness, vacillating character
– base : basin
– batima : building
– bayu : school blackboard
– bebo : in large quantities, full of
– beka (mabeka) : fault, crime / quarrelsome person / unfinished or forgotten thing / clothing tail
– beke : kiss
– belezi : Belgian
– Bena-kongo : descendant of Ne Kongo Nimi with ancestors from the Kongo Kingdom
– benda-benda : hellish atmosphere
– benda-bika : conflict situation, crisis breaking point
– bendela : flag, standard
– bendo : place where animals have stayed, trace of passage in the grass / funeral vigil
– benefisi : benefit, profit
– benga / yenga / zenga (mabenga / mayenga / mazenga) : ravine, precipice, abyss
– benga : ravine
– besi : kiss
– bidi : several, many
– bidika-bidika : confusion, agitation, excitement, anxiety, worry / scandal / quarrel, dispute
– bidilu : tears, distress cries
– bifu : sexual intercourse
– bigogolo / bivovolo : popular talks
– bikinda : cemetery, graveyard, land of the dead, world of the dead
– bikindu : footsteps / fight, struggle, brawl
– bila (mabila) : large bag of medicines / heap of something / the superfluous / ornament, dye
– bila : motive, reason, cause
– bilanga : plantation, field
– bilo : office
– bilongo : medecines, drug
– bilundu : articles for sale or exchange on the market
– bilungi : hell, inferno
– bilusu : vomit
– bimoko : talk about several topics, talks, chatter
– bimpovela : gossip, tittle-tattle
– bimpoyila : dizziness, exhilaration, intoxication of the senses, intoxication of the passions
– binda (mabinda) : tattoo, notch, groove, parting, stripe
– bindotila (kindotila) : nightmare, sleepwalking
– bingalu-ngalu : anxiety, worry
– bingila : heap of herbs covered with soil that is burned to serve as a flowerbed
– bipale : manners
– bipola : who is used to losing, eternal loser
– bisadila : actions without palpable effects, sterile behaviour
– bisala-sala : multiple and unsuccessful activities, malicious acts
– (bi)saya : pile of garbage used as manure / flower bed
– bisele-bisele : member by member, in detail
– bisenzo (kisenzo) : small pieces, cast-offs left over from the cutting of a fabric / firewood
– biseyisa / bisevisa (kiseyisa / kisevisa) : joke, jest, hoax, prank, trick, buffoonery
– bisi : those from (place), inhabitant of, native to / bus
– bisimba-simba : touch-and-go behaviour, behaviour of someone who dabbles in this and that
– bisi-nsi : citizens of the country, native people, indigenous people
– bisono : writings, writing
– bisosila : provocation
– bita : sheaf, bundle of firewood, large pile of sth tied up / ambush, trap / machination, plot
– bita : porcelain figures on the tombs
– bitua : camp
– bituku : abuse, insults
– bivanza : finances, funds
– biwezulu : cosmos, outer space
– biya : fourth
– biyeye : crying, tears, moans, groans
– biza : truth
– bize / bizu : kiss
– bizumba : adultery, sexual intercourse, prostitution
– bizunga : communal school organised in boarding school or day school
– boki (maboki) : notch, gash, deep cut, mark / wound
– bokoto : harshness, bad-tempered, cantankerous mood, gruff mood / greatness, full maturity
– bolo (mabolo) : feast, banquet, meal / screw, assembly peg, fixing pin / annoyance
– boloko : prison
– bombe / wombe : ash
– bombolo : greatness, size, width / large cheeks, protruding cheeks
– bombolokoto : noise, racket, din, uproar
– bomvi : silt, alluvium / lees, dregs, liquid sediment, liquid deposit / phlegm / cripple
– bomvo : lees, dregs, liquid sediment, liquid deposit / size, greatness
– bondo (mabondo) : imprint on the ground, track of passage / consolation gift
– bota : boat / leggings, legwarmers
– boto : thickness, consistency, density / stem, heel / punch
– boyi : servant, domestic, waiter
– bu / bubu : now, just now, right now
– buadi : friend, boyfriend, buddy, brother
– buadikisi / bualakazi : helpfulness, benevolence, kindness, charity, spirit of sacrifice
– buala : village
– buanga : ordeal, ceremony calling on the spirits to unmask a culprit
– buangala : lie, diversion of the truth, illusion, misguidance, misdirection, leading astray
– buata (mabuata) : air bubble, blister / pincers / sword
– buatu : pirogue
– buawa : hunger
– buayi : bad thing, thing that cannot be eaten or touched
– buba (mabuba) : place where mushrooms grow
– bubalu : violence, power, strength / fury
– bubatele : the hearsay, rumour, idle-gossip
– bubelo : state of illness
– bubi : evil, wrong, bad behaviour
– bubolo / ubolo : laziness, lethargy, weakness / apathy, listlessness / delicacy, considerateness
– bubondia : dampness
– bubote : good, benefit, goodness, kindness
– bubu (mabubu) : float
– bubualu (mabuba) : fury, violence, power, force, strength / lack of honesty, lie
– (bu)buamu : gum, resin
– (bu)buanga : something that cannot be expressed clearly, unspoken
– bubudi : forgetfulness, ignorance
– budimbu : latex, lime, glue
– buelo : loss of pigmentation, skin lightening, hense light skin, fair skin
– bueri : tomorrow / grace
– bueso : chance, good luck
– (bu)fuafu : uncleanliness, dirt
– bufuanzi : avarice, miserliness, character of not paying enough
– bufula : ardour, application, industriousness
– bufulu : molten metal
– bufumbi : discretion
– buila (mabuila) : surprise, ambush, trap / flooded plain / swarm of locusts / puff of smoke
– builakanu (mabuilakanu) : palaestra, place where wrestling is practiced, dojo
– builu (mabuilu) : place on which someone fell / refuge of a hunted bird
– builu (mabuilu) : night, darkness / plot, conspiracy, ambush
– builu : evening, night
– buimi / buyimi : selfishness, avarice / lack of hospitality, lack of complacency
– buisi / wisi : darkness, twilight, dusk
– buiti-buiti (mabuiti-buiti) : dew, humidity, dampness, damp place, humid place
– buivi / buifi : theft, spirit of robbery, kleptomania, swindling, lack of probity / prostitution
– bukabu : avarice, miserliness, stinginess, niggardliness
– bukadi : albino, person with a fair complexion, light-skinned person
– bukadi-bukadi : incompetence, unstable behaviour
– bukaka : misery, sorrow, grief, sadness, misfortune, loneliness, isolation / cruelty, quibbling
– bukaka : sorrow, grief, sadness, misfortune
– bukakata : old age
– bukakutu : strength, good health
– bukali / nkadi : dowry
– bukalilila : eternity
– bukalu : high cost
– bukalukusu / nkalukusu : lie, lying
– bukambu : injustice, unfairness
– bukangi : rarity, difficulty to obtain
– bukanza : intelligence to acquire goods, good business sense / traitor / enameled plate
– bukari : jealousy
– bukasa : marriage / entrails, guts, pluck, fry
– bukene : gentleness, sweetness
– bukento : cowardice
– bukesa : courage, bravery / guard, escort
– buki : part, small measure, number of something / remainder of wine in a glass or in a calabash
– bukiedika : truth behaviour, the real
– bukisi : holiness, divinity, divine will
– bukita : deception
– bukoli : captivity
– bukolo : disobedience, insubordination, rebelliousness, recalcitrant spirit
– bukolokoso : violence
– Bukongo : Kongo culture, set of laws governing the social and spiritual life of the Bakongo
– buku : book, booklet
– bukua : envy, covetousness or lust for other men by a woman
– bukuata : stubbornness, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence
– bukufi : summary, brevity
– bukuku : dirt
– bukukuma : stuttering, stammering
– bukulu : advanced age, old age, senior, antiquity / outdated fashion / marvel, wonder, prodigy
– bukulu : action of healing, action of treating a sick person
– bukuluki : humility, humbleness
– bukutu : kind of stone
– bula : length, height
– bulabu : stealing, robbery, looting
– bula(wayo) : bitch
– bulawi : baseness, cowardice
– bulawu : stupidity, silliness / madness, dementia
– (bu)lawu (malawu) : happiness, prosperity, luck, success / wedding gift to the wife
– (bu)lawu : strength, vigour, courage, virtue
– bule : blue, novice
– bulembami : docility, submission, gentleness, humility
– bulembani : incapability, incapacity, inability, inaptitude, unfitness, renunciation
– bulemvo / bulemfo : obedience, submission, docility / enslavement, dependence
– bulenga-lenga : changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, thoughtlessness
– buloko / luloko / loko (maloko) : champignon du palmier, maladie du palmier
– buluweti : wheelbarrow
– buma : manner, way, method / company, business, behaviour
– bumama : motherhood, womanhood, quality of mother, matriarchy
– bumbabi / bumbabu : deception
– bumbakata : dwarf, dwarfism
– bumbalenana : baseness, cowardice
– bumbalu : gossip, chatter, lying stories, false stories, tale
– bumbambala / mbambala : persistence to deny / gossip, chatter, lying stories
– bumbanda : rivalry, opposition, relationship between two people who love the same person
– bumbangi : hostility, disagreement, dispute, quarrelsome mood / trick, deception / testimony
– bumbangu : skill in a trade, dexterity
– bumbembele : clumsiness, awkwardness
– bumbene / bumbeni : enmity
– bumbevo : illness, sickness, disability, infirmity
– bumbizi : animality, animal nature, brutishness, bestiality
– bumbote : goodness, kindness, kindliness / the good
– bumfuzi : courage, boldness, daring, tenacity
– bumolo : laziness, idleness
– bumona : novelty, newness
– bumosi : unity / likewise, in a similar manner, in the same way
– bumpene : nudity, nakedness
– bumpombo / bumpombe : humility, tranquility, simplicity / stupidity, silliness, foolishness
– bumpoto : slowness, lethargy, taciturnity
– bumputu : poverty, destitution
– bumuana : childhood
– bumuntu : humanity, quality of being a human being, humaneness
– bunda (mabunda) : group, troop, meeting, assembly, gathering, crowd, cluster
– bunda : hunger, craving / bag for fetish, fetish / braid, fabric belt, headband
– bundiafu : greediness, avidity, greed, gluttony
– bundiku : friendship
– bundima : simplicity, gentleness, laziness, lethargy / dishonourable act, nastiness, malice, vice
– bundinga : attribute of greatness, attribute of size
– bundombolo : begging
– bunene : importance, magnitude, size, width, immensity, gravity
– bunga (mabunga) : red reflection at sunrise / sunset / conflagration
– bunga (mabunga) : smell in general / bee / honey
– bunganga : expertise
– bungangala : insistence / way of clearing oneself by dint of lying / falsehood
– bungangi : now, at this moment
– bungangula : skill in the art of forging or shaping metals
– bungi : mould / fog, invisibility, unrecognizable characteristic / red reflection
– bungiangia : mania of peddling, spirit of lies, deceit, cheating, double-dealing, malice
– bungu : motive, cause, reason, purpose, objective, aim / excuse, expedient, way out, objection
– bungu : palaver, dispute / fault, shortcoming, infirmity, deformity / clod of shore earth / deposit
– bungubi : deception, cunning, falsehood, dissembling, deceit
– bungudi : motherhood, maternal affection, tender love / clod of earth
– bungungu : lie
– bunkani : ability to give a lot of palm wine
– bunkete : cleanliness, hygiene
– bunkita : deception, cunning, dissembling / astonishment, something amazing
– bunkita : trade, goods, merchandise, usury
– bunkitikingi : fault, vice, perversity
– bunkitu : savagery, indiscipline / betrayal, revolt
– bunkoka : guard, escort
– bunkokoto : excessive thrift, stinginess, miserliness when haggling
– bunkole : imprisonment, captivity
– bunkolo : hardness
– bunkotono : pride which shows itself in the way of walking
– bunkufi : attribute of what is short, brevity
– bunkula : feminine beauty, beautiful woman
– bunkulu : age, antiquity, seniority / marvel, wonder, prodigy
– bunkuta : fear
– bunsana : sadness, desolation, distress
– bunsedia : early childhood
– bunsiensie / bunsiobo : manure made from animal excrement / anger, scowling mood
– bunsuza / bunsuka / bunzuza / butsuza : lust, adultery, fornication, desire for coitus
– buntati : faithfulness, fidelity, perseverance
– buntinti / buntikuna / buntingini : disobedience, indocility
– bununu : old age
– bunzimbu : ignorance, oblivion, going astray, misguidance
– bunzukubadi : ruse, trickery, deceit, cheating, double-dealing, contrivance
– bunzumbi : wisdom
– bunzunzu : vivacity, liveliness, exuberance
– bupapa : pontificate
– busa : inability to walk / excessive sensitivity, lack of endurance
– busafu : gossip, defamation, slander, disparagement, denigration
– busho : cap, plug
– busita : sterility, infertility
– buta (mata) : rifle, firearm
– butata : fatherhood, paternity, quality of father, patriarchy
– butela : accuracy of shot, art of shooting well
– butike : shop
– butoto : soil, ground, earth
– butsuti / butsutika : importunity, persistence, stubbornness
– buva : novelty
– buvaku : tribute, annuity, private income
– buvani : generosity
– buvata : coarseness, rusticity, impoliteness, rudeness
– buveki : delay
– buvela : simplicity
– buveledi : holiness
– buveve / buve / buvievie : envy, jealousy / avarice, miserliness
– buvezi : debauchery, licentiousness
– buvika : servitude
– buvilua : ignorance, error, misguidance, going astray
– buvimba / mvimba : integrity
– buvimpi (mavimpi) : health, well-being, welfare
– buvuengele : madness
– buvuenia : gentleness, kindness, sweetness
– buvukuna : gluttony, greed
– buvulu / buvudu : gluttony, greed, drunkenness / carelessness, rashness / stupidity
– buvuludi : rapacity, rapaciousness
– buvuya : insolence, impertinence
– buwayi : pain, sorrow, grief, sadness, misfortune / slavery, servitude
– buwulu : awkwardness, clumsiness, stupidity
– buwunu : lies, habit of lying
– buyala : fraud, corruption
– buyana : fact of arriving too late and losing one’s place
– buyangi : lewdness, adultery
– buyaya : brotherhood, fraternity in the family
– buyi : manure, garbage, excrement
– buyiki / buyita : ruse, trickery, deception
– buyimi / buimi : selfishness
– buyoyo : absence of mind
– buyuku : habit
– buyungu : inventive spirit, inventiveness
– buzekele / buzeketene / buzengele : carelessness, stupidity, silliness, bullshit, idiocy, madness
– buzengi : silliness, bullshit, stupidity, idiocy, imbecility, madness, aberration, misguidedness
– buzenia : tenderness, softness
– buzeze / buzezele : indolence, lethargy, effeminate character / irritation, nervousness
– buziezie / kiziezie : thoughtlessness, impertinence, insolence, disrespect / unreasonableness
– buzika : friendship, hospitality
– buziki : avarice, miserliness
– buzila : shamelessness, lewdness, vileness, moral turpitude
– buzimbakuti : looking stern, looking severe, looking gloomy, looking somber
– buzimbua : ignorance
– buzingi : slowness
– buzitu : respect, deference
– buzulu / dizulu : intemperance, great covetousness, passion for, greediness
– buzoba : idiocy, imbecility, stupidity
– dalapo : flag
– dati : date
– debaze : official spouse, main partner
– debo / madebo : chatter
– debo-debo (madebo-debo) : desire to prattle, chatter
– dede : remote time, day that is not today
– defile : parade
– defu (zidefu) : debt
– dema : load, charge, heaviness
– desemba : December
– desima / desimala : decimal
– detaye : detail
– devi : estimate, specification
– devualu : homework
– diadia (madiadia) : large whistle / reed, thick grass, grass more than five meters high
– diadika (madiadika) : kind of tattoo for men / palm nuts
– diadingisa (madiadingisa) : hole under the roots
– diamba : hemp, cannabis
– diambu (mambu) : statement, speech, subject, case, problem, reason, cause
– diata (madiata) : grass, lawn
– (di)babila (mababila) : caress, tapping / person who caresses, person who pats
– dibala (mabala): kind of game
– (di)banda : something forbidden, taboo / sacred thing, consecrated thing
– (di)banga : anger, harsh words that cause anger, cause of quarrel / suffering, difficulty
– (di)banga : high price
– dibanga (mabanga) : stone, rock, boulder
– (di)bangu / (ki)bangu : gruff or angry person / indocility / brutality, inclemency
– dibanza (mabanza) : thought, idea, opinion, concern
– (di)bindua (mabindua) : small drum with high-pitched sound / gun flint / lighter, matchbox
– dibondo (mabondo) : footprint / kind of toy / consolation gift
– dibu / dibua (madibu / madibua) : bell that one make hunting dogs wear
– (di)budi (mabudi) : herd, flock, crowd / mutual contribution / house deserted after death
– (di)bula (mabula) : village
– dibulu (mabulu) : hole, pit, crack, crevice, crevasse, hollow, well / cavity, burrow, cave, cavern
– (di)bulukutu (mabulukutu) : clod of earth, soft stone / coarse grain of salt
– dibundu (mabundu) : group, set, troop, band, meeting, assembly, cluster
– dibundu : religion, faith community, religious group, political party
– (di)dami (madami) : reproach, blame
– didi (madidi) : hole where fish gather, shoal of fish
– didi (madidi) : anthill of traveling ants, depository for winged termites or crickets
– (di)diafu (madiafu) : gluttony, greed, guzzling
– dididi (madididi) : forgetfulness, oversight, fault, mistake, error
– didofolo : hole in a fabric
– diduki (maduki) : elder, wise old man, dean, senator
– (di)duma : pride, vanity / habit of speaking with ostentation, ostentation / fashion doll
– diela (madiela) : intelligence, insight, cunning, mischief, roguishness / mind, reason
– diemba : swing, rope at the end of which you swing
– dienga : approval, benevolence, kindness, grace
– dieya (madieya) : joke
– difekampa (mafekampa) : machine, apparatus, equipment
– (di)fola : laziness / lazy man
– (di)fongomono : character of not wanting to quarrel, placidity, calmness, gentleness, humility
– (di)fuka (mafuka) : darkness, twilight, dusk
– (di)fuma : stupidity, silliness / idiot, fool / ingenuous, innocent, taciturn / mute, deaf-and-dumb
– (di)fuma (mafuma) : red and edible clay stone
– (di)fumba : politeness, respect / proud appearance, proud manner, haughty attitude
– (di)funda : drawing
– (di)fundu (mafundu) : fabric offered to wrap the dead
– (di)funza : deformed creature, monster / crippled, handicapped, disabled / infirmity of a child
– (di)fuongo : phlegm, arrogance
– (di)futa (mafuta) : payment, sum of money given in payment
– difuta : pay, salary, remuneration
– dikabu : part
– (di)kafi : cap, top, stopper, plug, cork / stuffing, padding, fluff
– dikahala : general assembly, congress, cohesion
– dika-dika : infamy
– (di)kakala (makakala) : friction, rubbing, massage, rubdown / grass species / coarse salt
– (di)kala (makala) : suspicion, enmity / handle / fish scale
– (di)kalu (makalu) : (motor) car, automobile, vehicle
– (di)kami : necessity, obligation, embarrassment
– (di)kanga : clod of earth, lump of soil
– dikani (makani) : intention, project
– dikata : testicle, paraplegic
– (di)kefa (makefa) : stone
– (di)keke (makeke) : palm branch stripped of its leaves and used to build
– (di)kela (makela) : attention, precaution, warning / noose trap / small bocage, small copse
– (di)kela (makela) : fire with long flames / ball, cannon-ball, billiard ball, marble, bullet, grain
– dikela : bullet, cartridge
– dikembe : Central African musical instrument, lamellophone
– diki : tranquility
– diki : jealousy
– diki-diki : tickle, palpitation, excitement
– (di)kofi (makofi) : fist, punch
– dikolo / dikoyo : knot, node, joint
– (di)kolobondo : short thing, undeveloped thing
– dikome (makome) fist, punch
– (di)konde : net, net-shaped trap, spider web / jack of playing card
– dikonga : arrow, lance, clock hand
– (di)konki (makonki) : mouthful, fufu ball
– dikuela (makuela) : wedding
– (di)kueta : fabric that has the property of producing a noise when rubbed under the fingers
– (di)kumbi (makumbi) : vehicle
– (di)kunku (makunku) : chair, stepladder, stool, bench, stump used as a seat
– (di)kunzu-kunzu : stumble, misstep, faux pas, small mistake
– (di)kusu : musky smell, strong smell
– (di)kuta (makuta) : penny, coin / wrapped medicine
– dikuti (makuti) : mouthful
– (di)kutu : bump, protuberance, protrusion, hump, node, nodosity, callus, callosity
– (di)lanta (malanta) : tin can, sheet metal, metal object
– (di)lasa/lasi : person who talks constantly about the same subject, habit of talking constantly
– (di)lawu (malawu) : completely red palm nut that would drive crazy according to the legend
– dilawu (malawu) : luck
– (di)lazia (malazia) : chatter, tedious repetition
– dilekitele : director, manager
– (di)leko : harmony, chord, unison, time, bar / beauty, fineness, harmonious performance
– (di)lela : weakness, tiredness, weariness, fatigue / calmness of the sea, smooth surface
– (di)lele : inability or half-heartedness and lack of pleasure to do one’s duty / delay, slowness
– (di)lema : load, weight
– (di)lembi : impossibility, incapacity, inability / protective charm
– (di)lengiza / lengizia : state of what is fatty, oily or sticky
– (di)lengiza / lengizia : need of drinking after eating a fatty food
– (di)lengo / (ki)lengo) : sense of cleanliness / prettiness, beautiful look / falsity, mood swings
– (di)lengo / (ki)lengo) : which is smooth, even, clean or without scratch
– (di)lengoso : promptness
– (di)lengu-lengu : attitude consisting of first examining one’s environment before doing sth
– (di)lenzi : glue, pitch, resin / sap, liquid, saliva, coated tongue, furred tongue / disgust of food
– (di)leza : soft sun, pleasant sun, evening sun / young woman, pretty and gentle woman
– (di)longi (malongi) : lesson, teaching
– (di)lulu (malulu) : wheel
– dimi : tithe
– dindanda (mandanda) : prayer
– dindangi (mandangi) : corruption
– dindende (mandende) : valley, plain, plateau / species of fish
– dindeso : askance glance, glance askew, sideways glance
– dinga / ndinga : sound, noise
– dingisi : pupil, student, disciple / instruction
– dingisi : traditional judge, minister
– dingizi : lord, rich man, influential man, prince / teacher, guardian
– (di)nini / (ki)nini : joy linked to a great happiness
– dinoka / dinoko : dew, drizzle
– dinkuni / dinkunia : mockery
– dinsampa : wave
– dinsueki (mansueki) : secret
– dinte (dite) : drop of a liquid / saliva, spit, spittle, sputum, juice
– dinu (meno / madinu / minu) : tooth, tooth of a saw, cutting edge
– dionga : arrow
– (di)paki (mapaki) : stain / piece of fabric for women’s clothing
– dipanda : independence
– (di)pangu (mapangu) : hand length, measurement of approximately 18 cm / piece of cloth
– (di)papu (mapapu) : wing
– dipasa (mapasa) : twin(s)
– dipolomi (mapolomi) : diploma, certificate
– (di)saka (masaka) : wood, undeveloped forest, bocage, copse, grove
– (di)sakata : bitterness
– disasi (masasi) : cartridge, bullet from a firearm
– (di)satu : honour, glory, veneration, reverence, deep respect
– disikulu : speech
– (di)simu : opposite bank, the other side of the river
– (di)sina (masina) : origin, source, founder
– (di)sinda (masinda) : recoil of a rifle by the detonation / grass, turf, tuft of thatch
– (di)somvi : youth
– disuasuani : difference, distinction
– disumu : sin
– (di)sunga : craving, envy, covetousness, concupiscence / begging, avarice, voracity / anger
– disungi : help, assistance
– ditadisalu (matadisalu) : workshop
– (di)tangu : versatility
– (di)tiamba : greatness, size
– (di)tibu : madness, silliness, stupidity
– (di)tima : zeal, fervour, great aspiration, wish, intimate desire, supreme desire, passion
– (di)tima : habit, custom, practice / mad, insane, crazy, idiot, fool / desire, worry, will
– (di)tima : object of a burning desire, feeling of revenge / discontent, dissatisfaction
– (di)titi (matiti) : grass, herb
– ditonga : the acceptable, the tolerable
– (di)tuku : founder, origin, source
– (di)tunda (matunda) : hill, mount of Venus / backbone
– divombolo : size, thickness, lump, growth
– divonza (mavonza) : great danger, peril, misdeed
– (di)vuila : wealth, abundance
– (di)wombo (mawombo) : abundance, plenty, large quantity
– (di)wumpulu (mawumpulu) : cavity in a tree trunk, underground cavity, ventilation hole
– (di)wuwu (mawuwu) : stem of the branch of a species of raffia palm
– (di)ya (maya) : agricultural field
– (di)yala (mayala) : nest / dump, rubbish dump, landfill site
– (di)yangala : quality of what is great, immensity
– (di)yayila : greatness
– diyela (mayela) : intelligence, insight, cunning
– (di)yeza (mayeza) : idiot, good-for-nothing, worthless man
– (di)yola (mayola) : joke, jest, boasting, bragging / noise, din, uproar, racket
– (di)yondondo : dampness, moisture / drool, saliva falling drop by drop from the mouth
– (di)yosi : tendency to chatter, beginning of madness / scoffer, charlatan
– (di)yosi : someone who plays the buffoon , who makes people laugh or who acts the fool
– diyoti (mayoti) : star
– (di)yoya (mayoya) : joke, jest, mockery, jeering
– (di)yoyila (mayoyila) : noise, uproar, din, murmur / little bell
– (di)yukila : stifling heat, suffocating heat
– (di)yuku / (di)yuku-yuku : heat, intense heat, feverish heat / fever
– diyumu : quarrel, dispute, argument
– (di)yunda ( mayunda): woman ignorant of cooking and tableware / antelope species
– (di)yunga (mayunga) : which is of little value / bad, fool, idiot / hamlet
– (di)yungila : din, uproar, racket / abandonment, desertion
– diyungulu : quality of growing quickly, ability to grow fast / promptness
– (di)zayu (mazayu) : knowledge, science, expertise
– (di)zengete : size, stoutness, corpulence
– (di/ki)zewa : what is liquid, what is soft, what is fragile
– dizi : funeral wake, place where a dead person is mourned, funeral
– (di)ziabata : silt, mire, mud, clay
– (di)ziezie : disorder, abstraction, maladjustment, confusion / madness, mental aberration
– (di)zikua : hearth around which the men of the clan gather to talk
– dizimba : sanctuary
– (di)zita (mazita) : axis, pole / packet
– (di)zita : centre, center
– djelo : sand, desert
