V.6. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 6/10 (mb-mpi)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– mbadi : pair of identical objects / crowd, mass / occasional work
– mbadi : hardness, vigour, strength, high price / ball game, spinning top / messenger, envoy
– mbadi : dear, the said, aforesaid, aforementioned, so-and-so / raffia cloth
– mbadukulu : beginning
– mbadusu : hardness
– mbafakani : squeezing, pressing, tightness / hunger
– mbafu / mbafukulu / mbafuna : blow, knock / trial, ordeal, tribulations
– mbafu : attribute of greatness, enormity / nose
– mbafunga : embittered, abrupt, curt, brusque, surly or gruff person
– mbaka : pitfall, trap / capture, prey / plait, braid, fence, stockade, pier on piles / fortress
– mbaka / mbakaka / mbaka-mbaka : dwarf, smallness, person who grows slowly
– mbaka : incomes, possessions, property, wealth
– mbakala : male, masculine / slap in the face, slap with the palm of the hand, clout, cuff
– mbaka-mbaka : nearest, dearest, neighbourhood / part of a wall, partition wall / spark
– mbakani : adversary, opponent, protagonist / fees, payment for services rendered
– mbaki : purchaser, buyer, taker, the one who seizes, the one who grabs hold of / prisoner, prey
– mbakisi : assistant, helper, auxiliary
– mbaku : boundary, limit, border / market place / species, kind / quality, shape, figure / adjective
– mbaku /mbakulu : payment, salary, gain, profit, catch, capture, hunting or fishing product
– mbakumunu : taking, capture, catch, action of catching, action of seizing
– mbakusulu : comprehension, understanding, grasp
– mbala : time / sweet potato / species of snake / genet
– mbalu : ferocity, cruelty, violence, spitefulness, nastiness, venom, poison
– mbalu : thought, recollection, remembrance, memory, reflection, idea / chatter
– mbalu : variability, inconstancy / moody, changeable or fickle person / melancholy
– mbalu : discontent, harsh words / species, kind / lath, shaving, splinter,chip / mortar, soot
– mbalu : flag / commodity, piece of merchandise, trade, merchant / high price
– mbamba : executioner, person who must demand the punishment of a murderer
– mbamba : immediate proximity, close following / perseverance, insistence / coast, side
– mbamba : wicker / cane / fleshy stone of a fruit, fleshy pit of a fruit / demijohn
– mbambi : uninitiated person / wooden whistle, horn / brass pipe / border, limit / district, region
– mbambu : vivacity to seize / luck, happiness, success / payment, reward, income, profit
– mbambu : shelf, small board / piece of cleared land / fleshy stone of a fruit, fleshy pit of a fruit
– mbana-mbana : infantile behaviour, childishness
– mbanda : rival, opponent
– mbandanu : beat, tapping, crackling, thunder, crash, din
– mbandu : age, epoch, period, era, generation, contemporaries, race / height of a person
– mbandu : transport price, right of way, entrance fee, toll, tax, tribute
– mbandu : measure by tens for fabrics or for powder / gift, present, tip
– mbandu : species, kind / model, example / beginning of work / stern of a canoe
– mbandudi : tax collector, employee of contributions
– mbanduku : surplus on a purchase
– mbandundu : violent thunderclap
– mbanga : house on stilts / bunch, bale, bundle, sheaf / something difficult to break
– mbanga : contradiction / reason, motive / jaw, mouth
– mbangadi : very high price, great value / hardness, firmness, strength
– mbangadi : someone who blames, who disapproves / hard and cruel person, tyrant
– mbangala : heatwave, hot season corresponding to tropical summer
– mbangala : beater, beetle, stick, club, cudgel, rod, lever, crowbar, sledgehammer
– mbangala : fruits of the second half of the dry season / lidded basket
– mbanga-mbanga : gigantic length
– mbangatala : great heat, sweltering heat, stifling heat, suffocating heat
– mbangazi : excessive heat, searing heat, fiery heat, burning heat, sun’s glare
– mbangazi : tyrant, despot, cruel person
– mbangi : witness / hardness, firmness / person who harvests medicinal plants, botanist
– mbangisila / mbangitila : ardour, heat, warmth, zeal
– mbangu : gain, profit, usury, interest / capital, goods/ line, stripe, alignment
– mbangu : skillful, ingenious, clever, shrewd or perspicacious person / statement, explanation
– mbangu : crosspiece / wicker basket
– mbangudi : the one who explains, interpreter
– mbangudulu : explanation, translation, transformation
– mbanza : city, large urban area, large village
– mbanza-kimfumu : capital city
– mbanzi : thinker, inspiration, instigator / ribs
– mbanzilu : idea, thought
– mbasi / mbasinga : representative, proxy, delegate, ambassador, envoy / angel
– mbasila / mbasinga : smallness
– mbasu : irritation, roughness, coarseness, dryness
– mbata : summit / slap / question / tip, commission / chair, seat
– mbatia : mute person, silent person
– mbatuku : lid, buckle, fastener, tie
– mbawu : fire, blaze, inferno, heat / fee, retainer, payment for help
– mbaya : pride, vanity, ostentation, insulting speech, offensive speech / bifurcation, path
– mbazi : outside, courtyard, terrace, garden / tomorrow, future
– mbazi : public square, place to judge or deliberate, court
– mbazu / mbawu : fire, blaze, inferno, heat / gunpowder, explosive powder
– mbazu-mbazu : fever, temperature
– mbebe : task, job, responsibility, liability
– mbebele : stupidity / lethargy, simplicity / broken thing, something of little value
– mbebi : lazy, idle, lazy person, laybones, person who gets tired easily
– mbebi / mbebia : non maturité, maturité incomplète, croissance incomplète
– mbebia : size, importance, greatness
– mbede : mask
– mbedi : the one who hates someone / wrong, fault, mistake
– mbedi-mbedi : something that is pasty
– mbedisi : winner, victor
– mbedoso : loss, defeat
– mbedoso / mbedosolo : way in which one lost and the other won
– mbeka : steep rock, precipice-filled rock / dance movement / clay jug, small jug
– mbeka : tail of clothing, edge of a garment, what is suspended, what hangs sideways
– mbekele : dwarf, nickname for a person of small stature / chicken or animal with short legs
– mbekele : bitter cassava
– mbeko : edge, edge of the table / short person, person small, dwarf
– mbela : side, edge, nearness, surroundings
– mbela : hatred, revenge / fault, wrong / loss, what we have lost / perch
– mbele : knife, dagger / blade, sword / trigger of a rifle / game with clapping of hands
– mbelo : hatred, anger / existence, custom, way of being, quality
– mbelo : payment for the gift of reconciliation, payment for the loss of a lawsuit
– mbema : hunger, famine, scarcity / heaviness, unwieldiness, oppression, sth overwhelming
– mbemangani : strong quarrel
– mbemba : speckling similar to that of an eagle / eagle
– mbembe / mbiembi : long feather fixed on the head / quill of the tail
– mbembe : red glass bead formerly used as currency
– mbembe : large pot with handle / rhinoceros, unicorn
– mbembekete : width, size
– mbembela : proximity
– mbembele : great friendship, strong trust / calabash / porcelain flat plate / tinplate
– mbembo : voice, language / news / palaver / a vote in an election
– mbembo : tax collector / funeral song, complaints / song
– mbembulua : stick to break, club to break, cudgel to smash, bludgeon to crush
– mbemvo : attribute of size, attribute of thickness
– mbena : growth
– mbende / mbendo : piece of wood with holes used with a pole to move burdens
– mbendula : chiseled teeth according to use or custom / collar, lapel of a garment
– mbendumuka : violent deviation / revolt
– mbenga : supreme court
– mbengedele : red glow
– mbengele / mbengedele : teinte rouge du soleil couchant, rougeur du crépuscule / étoffe rouge
– mbengi : taker, purchaser / redness / red-eye disease
– mbengidila : red tint of the setting sun / red fabric / heat of fire
– mbengila : red earth erected by ants / red spot on the skin, mark of a wound
– mbengo-mbengo : perilous place, dangerous crossing / dangerous work / promptness, swiftness
– mbengulula : which is pale red, which is yellow verging on red
– mbengululu : redness of the twilight
– mbeni / mbenia / mbene : enemy, adversary, opponent / an uninitiated who is not from the clan
– mbenza : great chief, great dignity / guard soldier, guardian angel / judge
– mbenza : unseeded plot of land / creases made on trousers’ legs during ironing
– mbenze : young man
– mbevo / mbefo : patient, sick, suffering person
– mbi : bad, evil, spitefulness, nastiness, maliciousness, wickedness / nasty person, the evil one
– mbiba : blow, knock / large, thick, embossed seam or hem
– mbibakani : darkness, characteristic of what is dark
– mbibi : stick
– mbibulu : blow, knock / castigation
– mbidi : quantity, large number, abundance / which is small, not very considerable, insignificant
– mbidi-mbidi : heap, pile, accumulation
– mbidika : heap, pile, accumulation / teapot, coffee pot, water kettle
– (m)biditezi : multimeter
– mbidulu : edge of a carpet, edge of a rug
– mbieka : coronation, crowning, investiture, crown
– mbiekolo : inauguration, inauguration party, investiture ceremony
– mbielenge : jingling of the ankle rings while walking
– mbiembele : old rifle, poor quality rifle
– mbiembie : braid, braided rope used as a wrist or ankle bracelet
– mbienga : thick and yellow copper wire, sort of brass ring / yoke, handcuffs
– mbiengele : thin stick / brass ring or chain attached to knives / rod, iron stem
– mbiengila : bottomless abyss
– mbiengo : quality of being good, munificent or kind
– mbienzengele : chain, tie, bond, fetter, shackle, hobble
– mbiesenge : which we meet without expecting it/ tinkling of the rings of the ankles
– mbiete : which is big and fat
– mbifa : blow, whip / thinness, slimness
– mbifika : trap for animals set on their usual path
– mbigu : place in the forest where the animals come out, usual track of animals
– mbika : jar or other container for holding gunpowder / abandonment
– mbika : long pearl necklace worn around the chest and back
– mbika : omen, augury, bird that predicts the future
– mbiki : ability to find, to discover, to detect what is hidden while talking about a marabout
– mbiki : what the marabout sees when he questions someone
– mbiki : diviner, soothsayer, fortune teller, bird of ill omen
– mbiki : glutton, miser, big eater, pleasure seeker / great greed, overflowing passion / greatness
– mbikisa : lack of energy
– mbikiyo : nightjar, European nightjar / cry of the nightjar considered a bad omen
– mbiku : advance
– mbikudi : seer, clairvoyant, medium, soothsayer
– mbikudulu : prophecy, prediction, foreknowledge, prescience, action of prophesying
– mbikulu : words, expressions or singing when making or picking up a fetish
– mbikusu : a missed opportunity, a missed shot
– mbikusulu : call, roll call
– mbila : call, supplication, invitation
– mbimba : agreement, convention / commandment, precept of morality in marriage
– mbimba : insulting word, abusive word
– mbimbi : banana tree trunk / taster / plunderer / very bad / screaming eagle, harrier, hawk
– mbimbidi : blunt cutting edge / what is worn out
– mbimbidi-mbiyi : insult
– mbimbika : trunk
– mbimbu : piece given to taste / first clapping of hands to honor
– mbina : action of swallowing
– mbinda : gift of a chicken given to a creditor, down payment on the debt / fear, fright, bad luck
– mbindama : duty, responsibility, condition
– mbindi : habit of wanting to interrupt or divert a conversation / someone who locks the door
– mbindukulu : commitment, duty, condition, obligation / ruler, rod, switch, bolt, lock, staple
– mbindukusua : impediment, difficulty in doing something
– mbindumunu : duty, responsibility
– mbingu : hunting, venery
– mbingulu : way to hunt, hunting
– mbiodi : child who begins to speak, talkative person, chatterbox
– mbiolo : chief, leader
– mbiongo : wine drawn from the pith of the palm tree / hole drilled in the palm tree to draw wine
– mbiu : surprise attack, sudden capture
– mbivulu : loss, ruin, misfortune, wrong
– mbivusu : evil, wrong, bad intention, bad behaviour, wrongdoing
– mbizi : fish, animal, game, meat
– mbobela : small capital to start a business
– mbobi : smoker
– mbobo : club, stick
– mboboko : reddish vase
– mboboma : fearful person, cowardly person
– mbobu : which is red, which is reddish
– mbodi : aqueous humor, viscous fluid of a dead person / menses / lead, tin
– mbodi : banana tree trunk, rotten stump of a tree
– mbodi : way of unfolding the fabric from the hips and letting it fall over the belt
– mbodila : various debris, rot, decomposition, decay, manure / corruption, mediocrity
– mbofolo : socket, stacking, jointing, joint
– mbofongo : extraordinary size, extraordinary height
– mboka : cry, exclamation, proclamation / talk, chatter / hunger, craving / rapid / placenta
– mbokasani : word, name, appellation
– mboki : comrade, companion / redness, red / hat with a drooping tuft, red fez
– mbokila : call, invitation / size, greatness, something important
– mbokina : topic of conversation, subject of palaver
– mboko : appeal, call, cry, shout / fees, commission, indemnity, allowance, compensation
– mboko : fold, pleat, wrinkle, gather / joint, join, tying, binding, articulation
– mbokolo : loud cry, call, song / quarrel, argument
– mboko-mboko : call, cry / fold, pleat, wrinkle, gather / joint, join, tying, binding, articulation
– mbokono : conversation, interview / call, cry, shout
– mbokula : garment facing, wide hem / cloth worn around the hips and which falls in folds
– mbokula : position of the one who bends the knees
– mbokuna : garment facing, turn-down collar / two-shot rifle
– mbola : tobacco debris, nicotine juice in a pipe / insecticidal powder for head lice
– mbole : manure, excrement, waste / countryside, field / country house, villa
– mbololo : burial enclosure for the chiefs, mausoleum
– mbolula : second harvest of safous
– mboma : soldier / support beam, main girder / rampart, fortified place / boa, python
– mbombo : protruding part of something, ridge, stern, frontispiece / nose, nostrils
– mbombo : consolation gift, present of reconciliation / greatness
– mbombo : grass pulled out and spread on a field of peanuts / old quarrels
– mbombolo : crack, snap, crash, din / death, mourning
– mbomvo : laziness, vanity
– mbomvongo : height of a child
– mbona : view, glance, sight, aspect, appearance
– mbonana : visit, interview
– mbonani : something transparent, glass
– mbonde : club, cudgel, log, mallet, stick / large marimba game with several rods / large dog
– mbondi : poultry manure / wildcat
– mbondingila : size, greatness, a big cock, a great rooster
– mbondo : poultry manure / clapper, club, block / gift to the witch doctor / five hundred pearls
– mbondo : elongated and conical shaped basket, elongated and narrow basket
– mbondo / nkunda : bad luck of a husband whose wives die one after the other
– mbondolo : consolation
– mbongi : village square, public square, common square, home / taker
– mbongo : money, treasure, property, possessions in general, wealth, fortune
– mbongo : fruit, harvest / seed, seeds, sperm / food, income, wheat
– mbongo : kinship, human race, mankind, posterity, race / dwarf / raffia fabric / rust
– mbota : star / spot, pimple / quality of being big and fat / weaving stick / pipe
– mbota : club, bludgeon, big stick
– mbote : salutation, greeting, good, well, interesting, appropriate
– mboze : fertility
– mbozo : youth
– mbu : sea, ocean, large lake / mosquito, fly
– mbua : roller, stick, trunk laid on the ground to make something roll on / rivet, nail, stud / dog
– mbuabua : sound of the dinghy / bubble, bubbling in water, air bubble on water / drowning
– mbuabula : wink, moment, instant
– mbuabununu : gathering, meeting
– mbuadi : close friend, dear friend, brother-in-law / steamed, stew
– mbuaka : redness, reddish in color, bright red in color, vermilion in color
– mbuaki : red color
– mbuangana : scattering, dispersal
– mbuangi : madness, insanity, mental alienation / weaver / pyrites, coppery
– mbuansadila : instructions for use, procedure to follow
– mbubika : small bunch, small bundle, sheaf / the one who wants to fool, swindler, crook, rogue
– mbuda : gallon / broad, prominent, bulging / kola pod
– mbudi : drummer, hitter, executioner / horn, trumpet, trunk, proboscis / stock, inventory / pair
– mbudi : noose, snare, trap, pitfall / small basket
– mbudikila : fragility / species of creepers, species of liana
– mbudila : small ditch / which is not developed, runt
– mbueno : sight, vew, way of looking, point of view
– mbuesa : display, exhibition / what is extra
– mbuetete : star
– mbuitama : darkening
– mbuitami : that which makes dark
– mbuka : sleeping place, resting place / bed, couchette, bunk / region, area, place, spot
– mbuka : bundle, roll, packet, package / explosion / banana tree trunk
– mbuki : doctor, healer, medicine man, quack doctor / kind of rifle
– mbukila : crack, crevice, fissure, chap, split / flood
– mbuku : place / remedy, cure
– mbukuila : retail
– mbukuka : action of bursting, action of jumping
– mbukula : pouring, outpouring
– mbukulu : recovery, healing, cure
– mbukuna : bodice, waist
– mbulamatadi : government
– mbulu : felled palm tree, sap from a felled palm
– mbuluku : valley between two mountains / rough path, uneven path / meal, mealtime / donkey
– mbulukulu : brittleness, fragility
– mbululuka : digestion, result of digestion
– mbulu-mbulu : soldier, military / species of small fly
– mbuma : large wooden drum / brick, clod, clump, lump / cat
– mbumasani : visit
– mbumba : secret / invention, creation, imagined thing / sticks constituting a rat trap / bark
– mbumba : fashioning pottery, action of ridging / state of a pregnant woman
– mbumba : dried cassava flour ball for preservation or sale, mouthful, bite-sized
– mbumba / mbumbi / kabumba : creator
– mbumbi : potter/ the one who catches
– mbumbu : mould, mouldy rust
– mbumbulu : very big person, very fat person / big gap, big void, big emptiness / soldier
– mbumbunzi : greatness of something, size of something
– mbumi / mbumini : visit / host / size, height, width
– mbumina : visitor, the one who goes to see, the one who goes to visit
– mbumukisa : that which is fragile / slate
– mbumvu / mbumvungu : size of a person, height of a person
– mbumvu : egg yolk
– mbunda : tam-tam, drum
– mbunda : set, collection, heap / multitude, multiple / fold, pleats, pleating / that which is large
– mbundakanna : addition, meeting
– mbundangi : the one who is very tall, that which is very large
– mbundika : fold, pleating, folding, wrinkling, puckering
– mbundu : heart, heart of hearts, deep (down) inside, stone, entrails, pit of the stomach
– mbundu : thought, mind, spirit, inner feeling / stone of a fruit
– mbundu : potion from the bark of a tree used to detect the lie
– mbunga : respect, good manners / mass of earth
– mbungi : fog, thick mist, unclear view, cloudy view, semi-darkness, twilight / mould
– mbungi : destroyer, devil, the evil one / rifle barrel, rifle mouth / nostrils, nose
– mbungizi / mbunguzi / mbunzi : fog, mist
– mbungulu : destruction, corruption, annihilation
– mbungululu : dawn, daybreak
– mbunza : ambassador
– mbuo : tumble, somersault, leap, cabriole / onomatopoeia for a dull sound of hand clapping
– mbuobolo : clapper, tongue, club, big stick
– mbusa : rear, reverse, back, behind, backside / space, opening between two
– mbuta (bambuta) : big brother, elder, male person older than oneself
– mbuta (bambuta) : title of politeness or courtesy given to a male person
– mbuta-muntu : elderly person
– mbutu : fruit, seed, pod, result
– mbutuku : birth
– mbutukulu : way of being born, birth process, childbirth manière de naître
– mbutuluka : emergence, rebirth
– mbuwula : ancestor
– menana : feeling of shivering, quivering
– menga : blood, genetic character
– meno : cutting edge / teeth
– metele : meter, master
– meya : sou, cent
– mfelele : oppression, scourge, plague / insolence, impudence, impertinence
– mfiduku / mfinduku : support, cushion, base, foundation
– mfiefele / mfiefiele : smallness / little hen, small chicken
– mfiekoto : strangling, strangulation, suffocation
– mfiela : immersion, species of tree, variety of banana trees
– mfielani : pile of stones marking the scene of a crime, cursed square, cursed place
– mfieto : pressure
– mfietokoso : printing, pressing
– mfika : the softness, softness of a seat, softness of a layer, elasticity of a spring
– mfikila : salary, pay / work, punishment, penalty
– mfikini : shade
– mfiku : food, source of strength and life, essential material / cardinal point
– mfiku : sorrow, sadness, torment, worry, anxiety / acidity, bitterness, blandness, insipidness
– mfimbi : researcher
– mfimu : scent, sense of smell, nose / flair
– mfinakani / mfinangani : one’s neighbour, the nearest and dearest, the loved one
– mfinakani / mfinangani : proximity, nearness, closeness, narrowness, confinement of space
– mfinda : forest, wood, jungle / place of the spirits of the dead / stamp or light from a gun
– mfinda : coup de grace
– mfinda / mfuinda : dose of a medicine
– mfinga : insult, curse / marks left by a mole / black excrement of a child
– mfinga : size, thickness, heaviness
– mfingika : gathers to shrink a garment
– mfingitina / mfingutunu : cushion that one places under oneself to sit more comfortably
– mfingu / mfingulu : insult
– mfingutunu : support, cushion used as support, pillow
– mfini : the one who presses on, the one who clasps, the one who encircles tightly, constrictor
– mfini / mfinia : very close vicinity, close proximity, confinement of space / apnea
– mfinkutunu : wooden log placed under the thigh as a support or that can be used as a headrest
– mfinu / mfinunu : strangling, strangulation, suffocation, nightmare of suffocation
– mfinzu : assurance, promise, pledge
– mfiona : slander
– mfisakani : thinness, stunting
– mfiti : sorrow, annoyance, sorrow, bitterness, something unfortunate, something untoward
– mfitika / mfuta : hem
– mfitu : payment, salary, fees
– mfoko : multiplicand, number that has been multiplied several times
– mfoko : pronunciation / groove, angle
– mfoko : conclusion of a letter, conclusion of a conversation or discussion, end point
– mfokolo : fold of the loincloth serving as a pocket / peg, dowel / groin
– mfokula : explanation / multiplication
– mfonia : tinplate, tin box
– mfote : wrinkle
– mfu : deceased / bunch, bundle, package / hair / species of fish
– mfuadi : drizzle / old and dark cassava
– mfuafa : narrow path through the grass / key
– mfualansa (bafualansa) : a Frenchman
– mfualu : sweetness / tomorrow / bundle, package
– mfuamatu : deaf
– mfuambia : line, queue, row
– mfuanakani / mfuanana / mfuanani : resemblance, likeness, similarity, uniformity, analogy
– mfuandi : researcher, investigator, explorer
– mfuanga : mortality / bad luck, bad fate
– mfuani : decent person, honest person / righteousness, dignity / what is appropriate
– mfuanikisa : matching, result of making resemble, adjustment / assimilation, comparison
– mfuanikisu : comparison
– mfuanka : buffalo tail with ornament on the handle for the chef, chief’s sword, royal sword
– mfuanka : who does not want reprimand, who can’t stand the rebuke / blunt knife
– mfuansa : action of damaging or deforming while trying to do something
– mfuansi : thing, object, thingumajig, thingy, something that is not named / luggage, package
– mfuba : ploughed field, field with cut herbs / cassava flour for sale / old thing
– mfuba : something that resists fire, something that prevents the burn and is used by the fetishist
– mfuba : something brown / a kind of brown banana
– mfudi : cotton plant / behaviour
– mfudulu : ploughing, plowing / plough, plow / explanation
– mfuebo : subsidence, depression, collapse, growing thin, slimming / pneumonia
– mfueka / mfueka-mfueka : sob
– mfuela : fineness, smallness / what is small, fine or grinded to powder / beautiful little eyes
– mfuele : what is as fine as powder or dust
– mfuele / mfuelembe : zeal
– mfuelele : perseverance at work
– mfuelemi : nurse
– mfuembo : joke, farce
– mfuenta : lazy, idle
– mfuilu : loss of life, death
– mfuilulu : the death suffered
– mfuindi : palm trimming / tinder / downy thing / whitlow
– mfuka : debt, claim / stalk, fruit tail, bunch tail / string of pearls / sin
– mfukamu : variety of trees
– mfuku : very strong odour, bad odour / smell, scent, perfume
– mfuku : fog, drizzle, dew / usefulness, utility, advantage, profit, interest
– mfukululu : smut, blight, black rust, anthrax
– mfukusu : disappearance, extermination, elimination, loss
– mfula : powder / end, completion, finishing / violence, injustice / pronunciation / kind of fabric
– mfula : firstborn / blacksmith, metalworker / rigorous investigation, interrogation
– mfula-kazi : Chamber of Deputies, Parliament, deputy, member of Parliament
– mfula-mpemba : chamber of senators, senate
– mfulu : meeting, assembly, council, committee / lodging, resting place, bed
– mfuluku / mfulukulu / mfulukusu : resurrection
– mfuma : nest, fold / consultative assembly / menstruation, menses, periods / faux-cotton tree
– mfumba : hoop from a barrel used as a rolling toy by children
– mfumfu / mfumfuta : dust, powder, flour, fine salt
– mfumfula : border, shore / corner, ridge, tip / dust, powder, filings, fine salt
– mfumu : chief, boss, authority, property prefix
– mfumu-lupangu : landlord, lessor, owner of the parcel
– mfumu-ntoto : landowner, customary chief, indigenous, native
– mfuna : hunger, exhaustion / load, burden / species of antelope
– mfunda : fallow field / fern
– mfundasani : mutual accusations
– mfundi : accuser, plaintiff, complainant, prosecutor / white palm tree worm
– mfundi : thorn, thorny bush, copse, coppice, brushwood, thicket
– mfundisi : judge, examining magistrate, judge of the court
– mfundu : council, consultation, confab, secret assembly, whisper, murmur / secret, mystery
– mfundu : accusation, contentious issue, case that needs to be tried / judgment
– mfundulu : accusation, complaint, accusation procedure
– mfundusu : trial
– mfune : weakness, weakening by hunger
– mfunga : package, bundle
– mfungi : fool, idiot / angry person, cantankerous person / hostage, captive, prisoner, slave
– mfungulu : confession
– mfunguna : confession / preparation for communion, confession by ear
– mfungunu : confession, cleaning, purification
– mfungununu : shrinkage, narrowing
– mfungusi : confessor
– mfunia : nastiness, violence, injustice, piracy / objects provided to the witch doctor to bewitch
– mfunka : strength, power, energy, moral power / big bushy tail / leopard
– mfunku : drizzle, fog / shriveled gathers, wrinkled gathers / effort
– mfunsuka : stain / discolouration, fading
– mfuntu : chore, laborious work, hard work, difficult work / pain, effort
– mfuntulula : work that does not progress
– mfunu : value, importance, utility, necessity, need
– mfunzu : negligence, neglect, dishonour, sacrilege
– mfunzuki : excrement, filth, refuse, rubbish, manure
– mfuonga : beauty, prettiness / handsome, beautiful, superb, pleasant, good, honest
– mfuongi : pleasant and pretty person, nice and pretty person
– mfuonguni : person who snores
– mfuota / mfuotila : animal trail, path leading to the fields
– mfuoto : din, racket, loud noise caused by an animal
– mfuta : bush / condition of the one who has not yet done his morning toilet
– mfuta : state of the food of the day before that has been poorly preserved
– mfuta / mfutu : payment, salary, reward, gift
– mfuti : payer, tenant
– mfutila : renting
– mfuti-nzo : tenant, lessee, leaseholder, lodger, roomer
– mfutu : financial value, payment, remuneration
– mfutumuka / mfutumuna : resurrection, recall to life
– mfututu : freshness, coldness, mist, overcast sky, cloudy sky / dust
– mfuzi : dark
– miaka (muaka) : itching, stinging, stinging hair
– miangala (muangala) : suffering, persistent pain, itching
– miangu : confrontation, fight, conflict, aggressiveness, bellicose attitude
– midi : midday, noon, twelve o’clock
– mihia : bad luck
– mihimpi : astral dimension
– miliale : billion
– milioni : million
– mina (muina) : prohibitions, taboos, interdicts, bans, rules, regulations, laws
– miningi : music
– minkiela : sunrise, daybreak, dawn
– minu : faith, trust, confidence
– minuti : minute
– miolo / miolo-miolo : health, peace, happiness
– mioya : maize beards, corn beards, maize female flowers, corn female flowers / mustache
– misu : blessing, power or chance to kill animals / coin / eyes
– mitingi : meeting, gathering
– mitsiela : early morning
– mitsumba : goods, merchandise
– miwele : poverty
– miwiti : gathers
– miya / mihia / mvia / nnia : misfortune, bad luck
– miyalata : large expanse, large extent
– miyengo : fete, festival, fair, solemn ceremony
– miziki : music
– mmanga : kind of game / snake venom / mango tree
– mmiamunu : brillance, way to shine
– mmolo : lazy person, lazybones
– mmongo : mountain, mount, slope
– mmuenge : heart of a tree trunk / marrow of a bone
– modele : model
– mona : novelty attribute
– moniere : a kind of beret
– monimambu : visionary, clairvoyant
– mono-kutuba : simplified Kikongo language used in the colonial administration
– mosi : one
– motele : motor, engine
– motifi : grievance, something to blame
– moto : motorcycle
– moya : life / belly, stomach / female flower of the corn with hanging stalks / hair in locks
– moyo : life / belly / soul, mind / senses, heart / sauce
– mpa : novelty attribute
– mpadi : vanity, pride, ostentation / provocation / competition / club foot, cloven hoof
– mpaka : doubt, dispute, protest / cowshed, place where animals live, animal reserve
– mpakani : corner / arm
– mpaki : food, ration / payment by food to the healer / sleep, syncope
– mpakila : small shot / species of light corn
– mpaku : tax, patent, royalty, rental fee, tribute, duty, fine, penalty / small shot / hook, clip
– mpala : rival, competitor / infidelity, adultery / jealousy, rivalry / escarpment, steep slope
– mpalata : medal, decoration
– mpamba : free, nothing, nil, vain
– mpamba-mpamba : easily, unnecessarily, for free, without compensation
– mpambani : division, separation
– mpambu : junction, crossroads, separation
– mpami : strong man, vigorous man, robust man / strength, vigour, robustness
– mpampa : a little, some, small part of, a drop / armful of something, quantity
– mpampu : haste, ardour, activity
– mpamu : strength, vigour, effort, energy, hardness, solidity, constancy
– mpamvu : absurd person, playful person / chain
– mpana : charity, generosity, benevolence / crosses below a weaver’s loom
– mpana : single combat, duel between priests / ruse, trick or intrigues of priests
– mpanda : uncultivated forest, jungle / hoopoe / spell / crime, offense, misdemeanor, great sin
– mpanda : determination, singlemindedness or act of standing in a threatening position
– mpandu : sacred knowledge, mystique / spell, fetishist trick
– mpandulua : stick, support, forked stake
– mpanga : verb, action
– mpangala : village square for the palaver / name of a day of the week
– mpangani : separation / competition, rivalry, struggle, competitor / grass or tree knot
– mpangi : human brother, fellow human being, brother or sister, cousin
– mpangila : adverb
– mpangu : work, activity, zeal / species, sort, kind / thing / trap, pitfall, ambush
– mpangu : prohibition from the witch doctor relating to food / misfortune, accident
– mpangu : standing wood at the end of a net, pole, stick of a carrier
– mpangudi : fragment of something / section, compartment, division, pigeonhole, box
– mpangula : product redone again, renewal
– mpangulu / mpangua : manufactured product, creation / grammatical form
– mpanguti / mpangutu / mpangutua : tree used to support another, stake, support, forestay
– mpanza / mpanzala : buttons for playing, small discs made from calabash seeds for playing
– mpanzi : side
– mpanzila : expanse of excrement, stretch of faeces, pile of excrement, pile of faeces
– mpanzu (mapanzu) : quarrel, argument
– mpanzu : gateway to a school of initiation to the knowledge of fetishes
– mpasi : pain, ache, illness, suffering, effort, difficulty, extreme poverty, destitution, calamity
– mpasi : sadness, sorrow, worry, anxiety, uneasiness, torment
– mpasi : oppression, torture, torment / the dead, corpse
– mpaso : lent
– mpata : ploughing, plowing, tilling, agriculture, farming / cultivated field, piece of ground
– mpata : pearl bracelet that attaches tightly to the forearm, rings from the elbow to the wrist
– mpata : coin worth five times the former Kongo currency unit / mould
– mpatakani : small branch, small bough, junction / fork / web, webbing / gap, interval
– mpatu : agriculture, field, plantation
– mpava : the means by which one can obtain goods / scarceness, non-abundance, insufficiency
– mpavala / mpafala : empty space, emptiness, desert, solitude, loneliness, destitution
– mpavi : bunch of unbloomed flowers, cluster of flowers / shovel, spade
– mpavu : width of a house or something else
– mpaya : width of a fabric or something else / small branch or bough, junction, small fork
– mpayikulu : exit, liberation
– mpedoso : absolution, purification
– mpeko : edge, verge, side, bank, shore / waistcoat, vest / flying squirrel
– mpelele : whiteness / species of fish
– mpelo : high cost or price, tendency to charge very expensive / strength, vigour / fruit in general
– mpelo (mampelo) : sharpening, grinding / part, half, group, pile, heap / side, direction
– mpelo / mumpelo (bampelo / mimpelo) : priest, parish priest
– mpemba : chalk, white clay, kaolin / place reserved for graves, cemetery
– mpemba-nkazi : senator, high priest
– mpembe : white, whiteness, paleness, pallor, clearness, clarity, transparency / chalk
– mpembeni : proximity, close, next door
– mpembo : joke / species of small peanut / kind of wild potato
– mpembuki : whiteness, paleness, pallor, clarity, transparency
– mpempo : flag, banner, standard / chance to receive / kind of bean / species of yam
– mpemuna : fresh wind, cold wind
– mpena : goodness, kindness
– mpene : empty, emptiness, vacuum, nothingness, void
– mpenga : immediate vicinity, out-of-the-way location
– mpengani : proximity
– mpengi : out of sight, hiding place, shade
– mpengi : embankment, dyke, dam in a pond or watercourse to catch fish
– mpenza : nudity, open place, clearing, unveiling, transparency / kind of drum
– mpesa : rifle basinet, rifle plate
– mpesese : wide path
– mpesi : oath
– mpeso / mpesua : stain, grease on a surface, dirt, mud / rubbish, refuse, waste, debris
– mpeso : yellowish earth, chalk
– mpete : braid, stripe, band
– mpeve : spirit, soul, trance under the influence of a spirit / million
– mpeve / mpiepi : wind, air, breeze, breath / banner, flag
– mpeve / mpevi : barrel of a rifle or a crossbow
– mpevele / mpevila : wind, breeze, breath, draught / banner, standard, flag
– mpevolo/la / mpewolo / mpevula / mpewula : gentle wind, light breath, fresh air, breeze
– mpewo : shade, sun shelter, parasol, sunshade, beach umbrella
– mpeza : insult, abuse, contempt, threat
– mpezomo / mpezimo : flash of lightning / jolt, start, jump
– mpia : not, nothingness
– mpiaka : lie, idle talk, empty speeches / misfortune, bad luck, ill luck
– mpiaka : lack, shortage, defeat, lack of results
– mpiala : pretentious speech
– mpiandu : education, knowledge
– mpiangu : wisdom, intelligence, cunning, finesse, subtlety, shrewdness, deceit / swallow
– mpiasa : boasting, vanity, pride, pretentious speech / contemptuous speech, insulting speech
– mpiaya / mpiaza / mpila / mpilu : bush fire, forest fire, wildfire
– mpidi : viper / wicker basket carried on the back with a rope that surrounds the head
– mpiema : grave, cemetery
– mpiki : stake driven in to mark a limit / strands for a scouring or raking brush
– mpikiti : size, greatness
– mpiku : insurance, confirmation by oath, contract or agreement which cannot be terminated
– mpila : kind, type
– mpilakanua / mpilakeno : forgetfulness, error, mistake, fault
– mpilangani : what is in the wrong way or crooked, what is in the opposite order or backwards
– mpilitini : printing house, printing press
– mpilua : error, mistake, misunderstanding
– mpiluka / mpiluku : change, mutation, conversion / the other side, the opposite side
– mpimbisi / mpimisi (mampimbisi / mampimisi) : darkness, gloom, night
– mpimpa : darkness, night, evening / large barrel, cask, tank, vat, tun / water pipe, drain pipe
– mpimpikiti / mumpimpikiti : size, greatness
– mpimpila / lumpimpila : twilight, dusk, darkness
– mpimpila : novelty, that which is new, original, strange or difficult to explain
– mpimpindi : size, greatness / large muscle / arm, leg
– mpimpisi (mampimpisi) : darkness, evening
– mpimpita : dark night, total darkness, evening
– mpimpiti : size, greatness / health, life force
– mpinanza : planet
– mpinda : bottom, depth(s), foundation, base / peanut
– mpindi : stick, club, butt
– mpindu : quantity, crowd, troop, multitude
– mpinga / mpingani : substitute, replacement, stand-in / successor, heir / in place of, instead of
– mpinga : male adultery, public girls womanizer / disease from prostitution
– mpini : torrent, strong current, difficult to pass
– mpinti : painter
– mpintu : beauty, prettiness
– mpioka : passage, way, crossing
– mpiokolo : passing, crossing
– mpiololo : whistle
– mpioto : tangle, muddle, imbroglio, confusion
– mpisa : messenger, envoy, ambassador, representative
– mpisi : attribute of wild
– mpisulu : understanding, knowledge
– mpita : black stripes of warrior / wood moulder / bonding, bow, archway / vigorous jet
– mpitakani : act of missing up he target, complication, failure
– mpiti : darkness, dark
– mpiu / mpiuki / mpiududu : blackness, darkness, gloom, which is dark
– mpiulula : small axe for cutting tree trunks into planks
– mpivi : vigour, life, health, without infirmity / tail feathers
– mpivi : axe / orphan / singleton, the only one of its kind
