V.2. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 2/10 (do-kik)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– do : interjection that expresses a entreaty, interjection to ask for grace
– dodokolo : apology
– dokotolo : doctor
– dokuta : doctor
– dongi : pants smaller than the required size, length far less than normal
– dongolameso : scarecrow, criminal, brigand
– dosie : file, dossier, record
– duane : customs
– duanie : customs officer
– duekete : pain, hurt
– duenge (maduenge) : rat trap, pitfall for rats
– duengo : regularity, sharpness of the cutting
– duki : duke, village chief
– dumvi : mister, sir, sire, notable, distinguished person, leading citizen
– duna (maduna) : pit
– dunda (madunda) : hill / island
– dunga (madunga) : black cloud
– dungi / dungu (madungi / madungu) : simple, naive, silly, stupid or foolish person
– dunia (madunia) : playful individual, stupid individual
– duya : nucleus
– duyani : nucleon
– edikasio : education
– ekipi : team
– ekonomi : economy
– enemi : enemy
– esansi : gasoline
– esipasi : space, area
– esipesi (bisipesi) : species
– esiti : East
– etirete : zipper
– fakitidi : invoice, bill
– falanka : franc, money
– fama : place, spot
– fayeta (zifayeta) : tailor, couturier, dressmaker, seamstress
– febuali : February
– fekani / kifekani : production machine
– fete : fete, festival, feast
– fiele : pride, vanity
– fiezuka (mafiezuka) : lazy, idle, indolent, clumsy or awkward person
– fikula (mafikula) : drawing
– filuelo : very little, fragment, morsel
– findu (mafindu) : marrow / inner and velvety soft part of a palm branch
– finzu (mafinzu) : anger, grief, sorrow, sadness
– fiode / fiole / fiolo / fionze : little, small, a little bit
– fionto : action of sucking
– fiote / fioti : dark, black, dark complexion / smallness, little, tiny, insignificant
– fioti-fioti : very young woman, very little, very small, in small quantities
– fiotinu : inferior
– fiuma : little, smallness, trifle, bagatelle
– fizie / fiziedi / fiziezie / fizieziezie / fizio / fiziu : very little, small, minute, minor
– foko-foko : suction pump for fountain
– fokolo : catafalque, funeral shelter
– fola (mafola) : lazy person / unemployed, destitute / eaves, fence / sheet metal, sheet iron
– folo / fono : snail, cowrie shell / protection of a breastfeeding woman against bewitching
– fongo : meeting, assembly
– fongo (mafongo) / mfuongo : plat, surface plane
– fongo (mafongo) / mfuongo: flat, flat surface
– fongolo / fuongolo : seat, bench
– foni / fonia / foniya : sheet metal, tinned iron, tinplate, tinplate box
– foti : fault
– foto : photograph, photo, shot
– fua (mafua) : death, decease, mortality, devastation, ruin / corpse / inheritance, succession
– fua : inheritance, succession
– fuafua : share of inheritance, descent / uselessness, nullity, incapacity / stupidity
– fuafua : part of the inheritance, share of the inheritance, heir, heiress, descendant
– fuafua (bafuafua) : person without property, non-taxable person, miserable person
– fuala : dew
– fualama : Flemish, Belgian colonist
– fualanse : French
– fuanikini : duty
– fuanka (mafuanka) : anger
– fuba (mafuba) : desiccated thing, stunted thing / unripe fruit, fruit that has not come to term
– fuefo / fuefu (mafuefo / mafuefu) : very great chef / sort of mould / soap
– fuefue (mafuefue) : chef, leader
– fuekele (mafuekele) : an idiot, a fool, an imbecile, a stupid person, a twit person
– fuka (mafuka) : grip, grasp, full hand / strength, power / voracity, gluttony, greed / crowd
– fuka : strength, power, vigour, robustness, grip, grasp / voracity, gluttony, greed
– fuki : laziness, sluggishness, slowness, indolence
– fuku (mafuku) : interest on the debt, overpayment on a debt / one million
– fuku : night, evening / heap, pile, accumulation / end, ending, termination, conclusion
– fula (mafula) : access road to the village, outskirts of the village, threshold, doorway, edge
– fulafula : truck equipped for public transport
– fulu (mafulu) : shell / marrow, inside of a grain / bush with edible fruit
– fulu : construction that allows the bricks to be fired using a central furnace / place, location
– fulu-fulu / fulu : froth, foam, head, lather
– fuluka (mafuluka) : fury, anger, irritation, rashness, recklessness
– fuma : home, fold, nest
– fumba : sorrow, reverie / politeness, respect / haughty allure, way of walking bent over
– fumu : tobacco
– funda : thousand
– fundi : big bite, mania of eating by big bites, gluttony
– fundu (mafundu) : financial contribution to mourning, blanket or shroud to cover the dead
– fundu-fundu : fine dust, flour / turned up earth
– funga (mafunga) : anger / grief, boredom / tiredness, fatigue, weariness, lassitude, lethargy
– fungununu : child who is not wise / child devoid of witchcraft, candid child
– fungununu : contraction / very short and fat person / bumblebee / chicken
– fuongo : place where a dispute is settled
– fuongono (mafuongono) : multitude, quantity / rattle, death rattle, hiccups of agony
– fuongonono : nasal twang / sitting position, idleness, laziness, weariness
– fusa-nti : wormhole, worm dust
– fusu (mafusu) : earth raised by rodents / whirlpool in a river, foam
– fusu-fusu : worm dust, sawdust / scraped off earth, loose earth
– futu : fetish, amulet, charm, medallion
– gabu / vabu : hole left by a removed or detached thing, notch, cut, nick
– gabudi / vabudi (magabudi / mavabudi) : hole left by a removed thing, notch, cut, nick
– gakama : tall, fat or plump person
– gakata / vakati : size, stoutness, fatness
– galo : stripe, band
– gangi : a person who terrorizes others
– gata / vata : village
– gido : handlebar
– giela : thinness, slimness
– gola / wola : hour, o’clock, time
– golo / wolo (magolo / mawolo) : bell for dog
– gonga / wonga : fear, terror, fright, panic
– gongudi / gongutila : round and deep hole
– gumpulu / wumpulu : cavity in a tree trunk, underground cavity, ventilation hole, cave
– ibobo : totally agree, so be it
– idonongo : old single-stringed musical instrument
– inga : yes, affirmative
– ingelezia : English
– ingeta : amen, so be it
– ingi : many, a lot, several, numerous / multiplier factor
– kabu (makabu) : band, troop, group, division / caravan, class / part, share, plot, lot
– kabu : unit, part, group
– kabu : free donation / alms, small gift / miserly person, thrifty person
– kabu : very vigorous man, man of unusual strength / rude person, coarse person
– kadilu : behaviour
– kado : gift
– kafukafu : extraordinary, sumptuous, terrible
– kafumba : enormity, gigantism, immensity, hugeness
– kaka (bikaka / makaka) : solitary / large animal walking in isolation
– kaka / mukaka / nkaka : entirety, wholeness, totality
– kaka / nkanka : threat
– kakalala : obstacle
– kakanu (makakanu) : junction, fork, bifurcation
– kakila (makakila) : hedge, partition
– kakilingini : barricade
– kala : past time, already, for a long time / charcoal, embers / grasshopper
– kalaka : secretary, bureaucrat, civil servant, office worker
– kalakasa (makalakasa) : tyrant, barbarian
– kalala : betrayal, perfidy, treachery / secret gift, usury / impudence, brazenness, perversity / tip
– kalala (makalala) : moor, heath, plain without grass
– kalasi : classroom, school
– kalati (makalati) : hill, slope, hillside, ruggedness, roughness, uneven surface
– kale (bakale) : obstacle, impediment, traps
– kalu (makalu) : car, automobile, vehicle
– kalunga : lake, sea, ocean / bowels of the earth, depths, abyss / omnipresence
– kamaladi : friend, comrade
– kamba : part, group
– kambi (makambi) : herd, flock, gaggle, horde
– kambika : width, breadth
– kambu : barrier, fence, opposition, impediment, trap, ambush / shield
– kambu : wall, garden / forecourt, parvis / lacking of
– kami : necessity / embarrassment / leaf used as toilet paper / tar
– kamina : the constitution
– kaminio : truck
– kampi : carpentry workshop
– kanaye : injustice, wilful wickedness, bad faith
– kanda (makanda) : clan, family, tribe / genus, nature, species, sort / tone, fundamental note
– kanda : person who suffers a growth retardation / safety catch of the trigger of a rifle
– kanda : style, fashioning, making, model, pattern, drawing
– kandu : place in the forest where we mix and drink palm wine / shelter, place of residence
– kandu : ban launched to resolve an unmanageable situation, rite of formulation of this ban
– kanga (makanga) : hill, hillside, heath, arid plain, desert, place / clod of earth / stain
– kanga : cluster, bouquet / hoe, pickaxe, food shovel
– kangala (makangala) : clod of earth, clod of clay
– kanga-muyibi : barbed wire fence, anti-theft device
– kangi (makangi) : ferrule / toadstone
– kangu (makangu) : friendship, union, convention, agreement, treaty, alliance, contract
– kangu (makangu) : friend, fiancé, lover, concubine, mistress
– kangulu (makangulu) : solution, conclusion
– kani : no, negative
– kanikina (makanikina) : prohibition of doing sth, injunction not to have to do something
– kanka (makanka) : large number of, pile, heap, mass / brushwood, tuft, thicket
– kanka : desire to grab the biggest share, desire to want to have the biggest
– kansansa : consciousness
– kansi / kati : centre, center
– kantaba (makantaba) : numbness / viscosity, sticky state
– Kantu : North
– kantuba (makantuba) : thickness, consistency
– kanu / kanunu / kanunua (makanu/kanunu/kanunua) : purpose, project, intention, decision
– kapita : caravan leader, chief, head
– kapita : captain, assistant to the village chief
– kapu : chapter, part
– kara : indifference, dodge
– kasa-kasa : vivacity, hyperactivity, reactivity
– Kaselo : East
– kati : inside, interior
– kati-kati : centre, center, middle
– katula-kiadi : consoler, sentimental stopgap, consolation prize
– keba-keba : precaution
– kedika / kieleka : truth, truthfulness / reality, certainty
– kekete : intangibility, intransigence, firmness
– kelo : a cut, notch, incision in a tree to serve as a reference
– kelo : convention, alliance, agreement / funnel for palm wine / sieve
– kengele (makengele) : grain of salt, grain of something, clod of earth, soft stone / shaved head
– kenko (makenko) : notch, nick
– kenko : point, spot, dot
– kenkolo : line, trace, boundary, border
– kesa : combatant, fighter, soldier
– kesi : case, box, chest, coffin
– keso / kesua : piece, fragment, splinter, scrap, debris
– keta / keto : envy
– kete : small, minimal, tiny, little
– kete-kete / keti-keti : hesitation, uncertainty, indecisiveness, trial and error, approximation
– keto : envy
– kia (bia) : person, family member, relative, neighbour
– kiaba : large quantity / superfluous, abundance, profusion / pile, heap, crowd, multitude, mass
– kiaba : mixture of leaves used as medicine / steam bath
– kiadi : sadness
– kiaku : tree trunk that serves as a footbridge / yours
– kialulu : bench, chair, seat, shelf, any piece of furniture we can put something on or sit on
– kialua : dwelling, cabin, branches hut
– kiama : attribute of greatness, danger, peril / respectful attitude, which inspires respect
– kiamba : density, thickness, size / food, sauce
– kiambu : insensitivity, cramp, convulsion, dizziness, fainting, swoon
– kiamvu : bridge seat, stool
– kianda : monument over a tomb / crate, barrel for storing peanuts, dryer
– kianda : gale, gust of wind, squall, high wind, violent blast
– kiandakasala : sling, slingshot, catapult
– kiandu : seat, chair, furniture on which you can sit
– kianga : shelf, library shelf
– kiangala : great heat, stifling atmosphere / sweat, perspiration / cold, coldness
– kiangioka : fuel, combustible element
– kianioka : size
– kianza : low alcohol palm wine, season when this drink is drawn / nest, basket to lay eggs
– kianzala : courtyard, free space for building, living space, enclosure
– kianzu / kianza : low rainy season that runs from December to February / palm branch
– kianzu / kianza : small branch of the large bunch of palm nuts
– kianzu : steam bath / part of an old and large lobster pot
– kianzuna / kianzunu : small branch, twig, stem, tail of the bunch of palm nuts
– kiata : order, rank, line, queue, in-line arrangement / quantity, mass, abundance, wealth
– kiati : crevice, crevasse
– kiavi : impatience, great hurry, precipitation, eagerness, haste
– kiazi : one million, large number / cluster of palm nuts / bunch, bouquet, package
– (ki)baba (bibaba) : something flattened, something flat, flat bottle, flatness, evenness / lid, top
– (ki)baba : beating, tapping, clapping, flapping / extreme nostalgia
– kibaba : deafness / incapacity, uselessness
– (ki)babazi (bibabazi) : tyrant, despot, hard person, rough person, cruel person
– kibakala/kiyakala : virility, masculinity, quality of man / courage, valour, bravery
– kibala : hardness, firmness, strength, great acidity / high price
– (ki)balu : cut board / high price / giant, scoundrel, rogue / joke, mischief, playfulness
– (ki)balu : whitlow / sting, prickle, goad
– (ki)baludulu : high place, veranda
– kibambi : tailor, dressmaker, seamstress
– (ki)bangi / mbangi : witness
– (ki)banza (bibanza) : pledge of promise
– (ki)bedilu : hospital
– (ki)belo : hamlet, village, district
– kibembe : Kikongo dialect spoken by the Babembe
– kibendila : flag, banner, standard
– kibeni : really, certainly, self
– (ki)benzi : distance
– (ki)bete (bibete) : hill, mound / lagoon
– (ki)betu (bibetu) : point, spot, dot
– kibika : the one who guesses the thought, who discovers the truth
– (ki)bila (bibila) : origin, cause, motive, reason, intention / fault, offense, crime / revenge
– (ki)bila (bibila) : speech / defense, prohibition / taboo
– kibindukulu : knot, padlock, lock, bolt
– kibingulu : hunting instrument
– kibioko : to belch, to burp
– (ki)bita : heap, pile, accumulation, crowd
– kiboba : old lady
– kibolo / bubolo : laziness, lethargy, weakness / apathy, listlessness / delicacy, considerateness
– (ki)bomvi : lazy person, lazybones
– kibondo (bibondo) : lock of hair, mane, tuft, crest / big drum / club, cudgel, beater, beetle
– (ki)bota : section of a village, hamlet
– kibota : pestle used to pound food in a mortar, club, bludgeon
– (ki)bovo : cripple, disabled person
– (ki)buafu : size of a person, height of a person
– kibuanga : compensation, small payment, tip, commission
– kibuanga-ntu : uncontrollable person, stubborn person
– kibubakala : male quality, masculinity, virility
– kibuka : women’s camping place in the bush where they process harvest products
– (ki)buka (bibuka) : tear, rip, laceration / peel, skin, bark
– kibukento : quality of woman, femininity
– kibuki : secret place
– kibukila : flood / spillway, overflow
– kibuku : piece, slice, part / short drum with skin on both sides
– kibulu : animal, game
– kibuma : clayey soil
– kibumba : trap built over a deep hole to catch game
– (ki)bunda : old lady
– kibundesua : confederation, confederacy
– kibungi : bird’s tail
– kibusu : influence
– kibutulu : conception
– kidemo : load, weight
– kidiamfuka : chronic debtor, who has the habit of borrowing and forgets to repay
– kidiba : forgetfulness, ignorance
– kidiba / kidibita : noise, din, uproar
– kidie : way of eating
– (ki)difu : silent person, who sulks or who does not want to take part in a conversation
– (ki)difu : satiety / what is big
– kidikidi : of all kinds
– kidilu (bidilu) : tear, crying
– kidimbu : sign, symbol, indication, clue, proof, symptom
– kidinga : puddle of water, pond
– kidoka-doka : toy gun, toy rifle, air rifle
– kiduedo : sickly state
– kiduele : developed reason, common sense, finesse, intelligence / child small for his age / fish
– (ki)duengelele : young girl, virgin, beauty
– kidufa : stupid person, narrow-minded person
– kidufuki : explosive
– (ki)dumva : mute
– (ki)dumvu : wrath, ire, anger
– (ki)dumvungulu : something short
– (ki)dundu : hill / island / value, price
– kidundu : astral body
– (ki)dungalala (bidungalala) : young girl, virgin girl
– (ki)dungi : very loud sound of gunshot, rolling sound
– (ki)dungulu (bidungulu) : meanness, wickedness, nastiness, quickness to get angry
– (ki)dungungu : shyness, timidity, diffidence
– (ki)dusu (bindusu) : protruding eye, wide eye, flared eye
– (ki)duta : freshness, humidity / serenity / fat person, small person of size, short person
– kiduya : nuclear science
– kiduyani : nucleonics
– kiedika / kieleka : truth
– kieka : mountain slope
– kiekolo : embarrassing situation, difficulty related to a debt
– kiela : door, hole, opening, target / strength, courage, vigour / loins, lower back
– kielo : door, entrance
– kiemba : trap, trapdoor
– kienga : bad luck, misfortune
– kiengo (makiengo) : stain, spot
– kiengo : smell of rotten things, smell of goat urine, etc
– kiengwa / kiengo : red earth, scorched earth, calcined earth / yellow color tending to red
– kienzi : clarity, transparency
– kienzo : pain after a fall / gluttony
– kiese : joy, happiness, enjoyment
– (ki)fiatu : hope
– (ki)fiawuzi : contentment, convenience, peace of soul, tranquility of mind
– (ki)fikila / (ki)fikulu : hiding place, safe place, retreat
– (ki)fikula (zifikula) : image, portrait, drawing, statue
– kifingu : insult
– (ki)fio : blackness, darkness
– (ki)fionto : person with a flat bottom
– (ki)fobolo / (ki)fuobolo : old collapsed house, ruin, broken object / gatehouse
– (ki)fofokoto : fatras, various things in an uncleaned house
– (ki)fofolo (bifofolo) : house threatened with ruin, old house
– (ki)fokuelua : multiplier
– (ki)fokumba : valley
– (ki)fombo (bifombo) : inside of a palm branch with the pith
– (ki)foti (ki)fuoti : pole, log
– (ki)fu (bifu) : custom, habit, practice / manner, method, practice, nature, behaviour, conduct
– (ki)fu : quality, character, nature / fault, shortcoming, avarice, tare, disability, deformity
– (ki)fu (bifu) : mark, scar / likeness, image, figure / expiatory sacrifice / mortar
– (ki)fuafala / (ki)fuafuala) : unusable thing, thing out of use / simplicity, stupidity
– kifuafua : inutilité, nullité, incapacité / personne sans biens, pauvre, misérable / sottise
– (ki)fuafuani (bifuafuani) : resemblance, likeness / model, type
– (ki)fuafuasi (bifuafuasi) : trace, trail, footprint, impression, imprint
– kifualanse : French language
– kifuanesua : model, type / image, representation
– kifuanga : something that has lost its value / laziness, poverty
– kifuani : example, image, reflection
– kifuanisu : picture, image, photo
– (ki)fuata : person without strength, powerless, poor, lazy person
– kifudi : question
– (ki)fuede / (ki)fuediba : hovel, old and demolished house, shack, shed, hut, cottage
– kifuedika : bad house, tumbledown cottage, hovel
– (ki)fuefue (bifuefue) : fury, rage, mania
– (ki)fueke : stupidity, bad or useless thing / a fool, an idiot, an imbecile, a stupid or silly person
– kifuetete : worthless thing, caricature, ersatz / grasshopper
– kifuidi : death, bereavement, mourning, decline
– kifuifui / kifuifuika / kifuike : resemblance, likeness, same physiognomy
– kifuiti : comrade, war companion, fellow warrior, warrior nickname, allied fighter / idol
– (ki)fuka : respect, dignity, veneration, genuflection, deference, good behaviour
– kifuka (bifuka) : family talk
– kifuki : diligence, application, ardour, tenacity, insistence, zeal, activity, energy / spirit
– (ki)fuku (bifuku) : retreat of an army / box, bad house
– kifulu (bifulu) : place, location, seat, nest / flower / fruit
– (ki)fulumunu (bifulumunu) : breath, breathing / spirit, soul / comma
– kifuma (bifuma) : spot, place, home, henhouse / fault, shortcoming, infirmity, scar, scratch
– (ki)fumana : consideration
– (ki)fumba (bifumba) : family, genealogical lineage
– (ki)fumbi (bifumbi) : secret killer / betrayal, treachery, ambush / place of robbery, crime scene
– (ki)fumbi / kifu : disability
– kifunda (bifunda) : luggage, bundle
– kifunku : ruse, trick, cunning, artifice, skill, dexterity / cache, hiding place
– kifuntinu : tractor
– kigeso : slice of a food, piece torn from an edible body
– kigogolo / kivovolo (bigogolo / bivovolo) : puplic talk
– kigompa/o : stupidity, silliness, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility / unripe fruit of safou
– kihodi : shell of a fruit species used in the manufacture of the rattle
– kikabu : generosity, munificence
– kikada : ladder, escalator
– (ki)kadilu / (ki)kadulu : nature, use, custom, manners, habit / form, shape, education
– (ki)kadulu / nkadulu : way of being, behaviour
– kikafi : action of binding, action of tightening, action of extinguishing
– (ki)kakala (bikakala) : corpse, dead thing / small ball rolled by the dung beetle / weed
– (ki)kaku : fence, enclosure, palisade, hedge, barrier / dam, obstacle / defense, opposition
– (ki)kala (bikala) : revenge / season without rain, water shortage, drought / dead, deceased
– kikalaki : biography
– (ki)kalangi (bikalangi) : cage
– kikama : dignity of the queen, strength of the queen / beautiful and beloved slave
– kikamba : protective wall, fence, guardrail / part, group
– (ki)kambidi : hunter who watches the perimeter of a bush
– (ki)kambikisa : metal grating, grille, entrance gate, railings
– (ki)kambu : glory, fame, honour, respect
– (ki)kami : barbaric man, tough, strong, cunning or who does not let himself be caught easily
– (ki)kami : something that is squeezed, compressed, something that has passed through a liquid
– (ki)kanda : ability to prevent rain from falling / hunger, famine / season of scarcity
– (ki)kandu (bikandu) : prohibition, taboo / law, regulation, oath of prohibition
– (ki)kandu : fetish of protection of a place, anti-theft fetish / curse, malediction / insult
– (ki)kangala (bikangala) : cage or basket used to transport chickens / mouthful / bunch
– (ki)kangi : savior, rescuer, protector, defender / small drum with a high-pitched sound
– kikangu : arrest
– (ki)kangulu (bikangulu) : brake, closing, closure, fastener, shutter
– kikata : paralytic, legless cripple
– kikayi : territory, territorial area
– kikela : fallen fruit, remains of a fruit pecked by birds
– kikento : femininity, womanhood, uterus, womb
– kikienzele : great clarity, transparency, limpidity
– kikienzi : clarity, transparency, limpidity
– kikienzolo : filter
– kikilu : really, surely, certainly, actually / truth, certainty, certitude, assurance
– kikobi : sacrifice, immolation
– kikodi : offering, tribute, fine, penalty, ransom / cane, club, club
– kikodi : tribute
– (ki)koka : path, road, highway, national road
– (ki)kolala : coral
– (ki)koloba : sacrifice, offering made to God
– kikolokoso : size / skull, head
– kikombi / nkombi : sweeper
– kikondolo : lack, need
– (ki)kondondo : curved thing, shield
– (ki)konenge : very skinny person
– (ki)konko : corner
– kikono : group, ensemble, party, association
– kikonsonanta (bikonsonanta) : consonant
– kikonzokolo : extreme thinness which makes the bones visible / thin person, skinny person
– (ki)konzo-konzo : desire to accuse people
– (ki)konzongolo : something curved or deformed / knot, fetlock / skeleton
– (ki)konzongolo : noise, rattling, chinking, jingling, jangling, clinking, clattering
– kikopudi (bikopudi) : concavity, hollow, cavity, deep plate, soup plate
– kikoso : cage, small shelter, cabin, gatehouse
– kikota : birthright / dignity, rights and customs concerning an elderly person, full power
– (ki)koto (bikoto) : spout / pipe
– kikoyi (bikoyi) : cry of joy
– (ki)kuakasa / (ki)kuaku : saw
– (ki)kuakasa : kind of instrument with which we imitate the sound of the saw and the file
– (ki)kualati (bikualati) : line, mark, label, stamp
– (ki)kuasu : dirt, uncleanliness
– (ki)kuata : stubbornness, persistence
– (ki)kubu (bikubu) : loom / shelter, alcove / plantation in wood
– kikufi : small person, dwarf
– (ki)kuikisi / kikuikizi : proof, demonstration / belief, religious faith / trust, fidelity
– (ki)kuku (bikuku) : termite mound / termite species / kitchen
– (ki)kukulu : stone entwined with lianas and attached to a rope to anchor a fish trap
– (ki)kukulu : loom
– kikukuma : stutterer, stammerer / stump, clod, clump, tuft
– kikulu : tradition, custom, history, the past
– kikululu : humility, humbleness, simplicity
– kikuma (bikuma) : mound, hillock, hill / platform
– kikuma (bikuma) : appointment gift / usual meeting, recurring meeting
– kikuma (bikuma) : condition, requirement
– kikumatele / kitele : young girl, virgin girl / young man / fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend
– (ki)kumbi : bride or fiancée dyed red / first and favorite wife / virgin girl
– (ki)kumbi : amulet, a type of red bean used as a fetish
– kikumbi : rite of initiation of young women to conjugal life
– (ki)kumbu : wonderful thing / the first of the twins
– (ki)kumiti : motive, reason
– (ki)kumpukita : inequality
– (ki)kumu : disobedience, insubordination, disrespect, contempt, scorn, disgust, dislike
– (ki)kumu : expression by the voice of one’s displeasure to give something
– kikunda (bikunda) : chair, bench, seat, stool / small bell, maracas, rattle
– kikundi : friendship, camaraderie
– (ki)kundulu : perch, roost, place to relax, place to sleep, refuge
– kikungumunu : track made up on a slope and that one runs down on a slippery support
– kikunku (bikunku) : share, contribution
– (ki)kunzila : monogamy
– (ki)kuta (bikuta) : inheritance, property, wealth / slave / very rich chief
– (ki)kuta (bikuta) : banana leaf used to wrap
– kikutu (bikutu) : present, gift, bribe / sheath, case, scabbard / caterpillar cocoon
– kikutu (bikutu) : garment / buried corpse / pile of carpets
