V.7. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 7/10 (mpo-ne)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– mpodia : number
– mpofi : lawyer, delegate, ambassador, representative, messenger / spirit
– mpofi : honest person, person of integrity, person of probity, upright person
– mpofo : blind man / blindness / foolishness
– mpoka / mpola : suction cup horn, suction cup / horn, bugle
– mpoka / mpoko : horn, suction cup horn
– mpokani : corner
– mpoko : insult / handful of peanuts / species of squirrel
– mpola : puff, breath, suction, suction cup / rat trap / sewing stitch
– mpola : pinch / peanut shell, empty shell of an undeveloped peanut
– mpolo : face, look, appearance / vital force, good health
– mpolo : peace, serenity / narrative, history, report
– mpombo : patience, gentleness, moderation
– mpona : word
– mponda : belt, waistband, headband, ribbon, red woolen fabric for belt
– mponda : who kills, who knocks out, who stuns, who murders / murderer, mortal
– mpongoso / mpongolo : calmness, quietness, stillness, recovery, improvement
– mpova : speech, statement, language, mode of expression
– mpovi : spokesperson, traditional lawyer, orator
– mpovolo : way of speaking, language, idiom
– mpoza : ability to endure or to put up with, tolerance, patience / great fright, terror, sadness
– mpozi : shade, coolness / shelter from the sun / solar rays / heat, sweat
– mpozo : size
– mpu : hat, cap, beret, helmet
– mpuana : fellow man, neighbour
– mpuangila : empty house, deserted house / which is too big, too wide
– mpuanza : celibacy / freedom, unhindered, independent state, without chains
– mpuasa : kind of seine or draw net, fishing net made of twisted thread
– mpuasika : space, gap, chink, crack, interstice
– mpuawu : point, dot
– mpudi-mpudi : beauty, prettiness
– mpudu : hole or opening for animals in the bar of a pitfall
– mpuena / mpuena-mpuena : attribute of greatness, gigantism, enormity or of infinity
– mpuena / mpuenia : beauty, prettiness, magnificence
– mpuila : desire, craving, longing, thirst
– mpuki : great liar, joker, prankster, malicious joker
– mpukubola : worthless person, empty barrel, stupid person, idiot
– mpukukila / mpukukulu : leisure, hobby, recreation
– mpukula : echo
– mpukulu : porch roof, veranda, awning, side under the roof of a house
– mpukulu : size, width, breadth, extent, expanse
– mpukulula : invitation
– mpukumuna : temptation, seduction, charming
– mpukumuni : tempter, seducer, flatterer, angel of evil, person of bad influence
– mpukumunu : temptation, attraction to evil
– mpulusu : liberation, release
– mpumbu / mpumpu : abundance, crowd / queue of people, line of people
– mpumpa : unmarried person, single / public woman
– mpumpuluvunu : lie, falsehood, falsity, deception, fraud, scam
– mpumu : upside down, clutter, chaos, waste / rumour, hearsay, honour, glory / echo
– mpumukunu : sigh
– mpumuna : fresh wind, cold wind
– mpumuni : adultery
– mpunga : size / notorious / small ball of string
– mpungi : young and charming creature / elephant tusk, ivory, small horn / fireplace
– mpungi : trumpet, horn, elephant tusk, saxophone, warning buzzer
– mpungu : the highest, the tallest, the most distinguished / supremacy, power / sacred eagle
– mpungu : fetish of power, fetish of strength, feathered idol that provides wealth
– mpungu / mvumbi : corpse
– mpungumunu : trust, refuge
– mpuni / mwuni : liar
– mpunzu : stain / something dirty, soiled, striped or struck out
– mpupu : violent man
– mpupukulu : deception
– mpupulu : quality of being rich enough, having enough to live on or owning a lot of properties
– mpusa : opening / joke, prank, trick
– mpusika : rascal, scamp, rogue, knave / indecisive or irresolute person
– mpusu : highway, main road, public road, public path / fabric used as clothing or as currency
– mputa : prostitute / name of the queen in the card game
– mputu : poor, destitute, indigent
– Mputu : Europe, name originally given to Portugal to designate the country of the poor
– mputuki : european, relating to Europe
– mputulukezo : portuguese
– mpuva : watercourse, stream, torrent / male
– mpuza : deaf
– muadi : stone, pit of a fruit, almond, kernel, palm nut / small part of / earthworm
– muadi-buala : old village site, old village, village square
– muadika-muadika : spots, speckles, streaks
– muafila : rumb, small piece
– muafu / muamfu / muamvu : split, crack, fissure, crevice, groove, channel
– muafu : quarrelsome mood
– muafuka : a few, a handful, a small amount
– muahola / muaholo : a small pinch
– muaka : caustic berry / strong and pungent odour / anger / chest pain, cough / whooping cough
– muaka : season, year, formerly, the past / strong smell, strong odour, stink, stench, emanation
– muaka : fastener, tie for making fish traps / castnet, cone-shaped net
– muaka (miaka) : cauterizing hair / nettle hair
– muakaka : burning sensation in the throat / elsewhere
– muakani : attacker, aggressor, brigand, robber, burglar
– muakididi : provider, supporter, helper, the one who recommends someone by his vote
– muakididi : helpful person
– muakila : strong and pungent smell / steam
– muala (miala) : usual rodent path through the bush
– muala : way of passage of the water, water trickle between the stones, watercourse, flood, tide
– muala : draught, draft / child / melody / access, attack
– muala : small palm nut that remains attached to the bunch / variety of potato
– muala (bala) : child
– mualakazi : woman who has given birth, woman in childbirth / bird that we do not name
– mualala : brush, brush bristle / centipede, millipede / porcupine quill
– mualata : anger
– muali : the second
– mualu / muala : track for following and catching somebody / fastest part of a river / stream
– mualu : something to say, something to tell / melody / animal track, animal trail
– muamba : puree, meat soup, liquid food, thick sauce / fruit pulp, sandwish loaf
– muambidisi : peacemaker, reconciler
– muambizi : lover, mistress / flexible, accommodating, tractable, or malleable person
– muamvu : split, crack, crevice, fissure
– muanda : spirit / draught / sound source, wind direction / high wind, sound of something, echo
– muandala : pain
– muandanda : split, crack, slot, slit
– muandazi : resounding sound, noisy sound, formidable sound / lightning / pungent smell
– muandu : madness / taboo, evil spell / quarrelsome mood
– muanga : small rain, light rain, rain in January
– muangi : fiber in a walnut / piece of kola nut
– muangu (miangu) : aggressive or quarrelsome mood, bellicose mood / trial / piece of kola nut
– muangu : beam, pole, ridge trunk, ridge pole, support of a tent
– muaniyo : a certain, someone called
– muansita : inhuman
– muanu (mianu) : manner, way, nature, quality, form / way of being / measure, moderation
– muanu : a certain, someone called / short and big drum
– muanza : angel / large river, large body of water
– muanzi : root / tendon / vein, artery, nerve
– muasi : hole, orifice, opening, clearing, open space
– muatu : thing, thingumajig, thingummy, thingy, a certain, term used to fill a memory gap
– muaye : means, way
– mue : sir, master / the big one, the great
– muela : breath, soul, spirit
– muelo : door, entrance, threshold
– muendo : walking / departure, journey, trip / path of animals / haste, speed, alertness
– muene / wene : honorary title, nobility, dignity, high office / sir, master, chief, lord, sire
– muenezi : director, manager
– muenge : sweetness / cluster of flowers / male palm flower from which palm wine is drawn
– mueta : honorary title, sir
– muezi (miezi) : moonlight
– mugebele : breathing, respiration, breath / mind
– mugebula / mugefula : breathing, respiration, breath / living soul
– mugege / muhehe : pipe stem
– mugego / mueho : joy or pleasure of receiving something / happiness, good luck
– muhanga / na-muhanga / nia-muhanga : creator
– muhelo : person without pubic hair / palm tree without roughness and very slippery
– muhilu : illusion, deceitful image, deceitful appearance
– muhiya : bad luck, calamity, misadventure
– muina : law, ordinances, rules, regulations
– muinga (minga) : grass stalk, straw blade
– muingidi : clapper in a small bell / corn stalk stripped of its grains
– muingilu : land without owner between two cultivated fields / land not cultivated
– muingilu : neutral country / place reserved for games
– muingulu : boundary, channel between two fields
– muini : day, daylight, light and heat of the sun, sun radiance, daytime
– muinza / muinzi : stem, stalk / arrow / pip, seed, stone / match / scorpion or crustacean pincer
– muisi : smoke / that of, inhabitant of, native to
– muisi-gata/vata (bisi-gata/vata) : villager, person from the same village as me
– muisi-mavula (bisi-mavula) : town-dweller, city-dweller
– muisi-nsi (bisi-nsi) : native, indigenous, child of the country
– muita : bundle, sheaf, bouquet, bundle, bale / united group
– muivi : thief, kleptomaniac
– mukadi-mukadi : incompetent person, worthless person, empty barrel
– mukama / nkama : dam on a watercourse / first-class wife, first lady, queen
– mukami : little boy, ward
– mukanduku : week
– mukanga : friend
– mukangadi : walker
– mukangala : friendship, sympathy / walker / emptiness, vacuity, vacuousness
– mukangalu : association, society
– mukangasi : companion, friend, colleague
– mukangi : liberator, savior
– muko : package, bundle, packet, bale
– mukoba : giant
– mukodia : leather case of a knife / lower part of the tibia
– mukoka : border of a dress
– mukondo-kisalu : unemployed
– mukongo : member of an ethnic group from the Kongo kingdom where the kikongo is spoken
– mukuanga : rattle
– mukunga / nkunga (mikunga) : song, singing
– mukungi / nkungi : talk, interview / fete, festival / fastener, tie / climbing plant species
– mukungudi / nkungudi (mikungudi) : body without hair, hairless body
– mukulu (bakulu) : ancestor, old person
– mukusa : heat / species of rat
– mukuta : sheaf, bale, package, bouquet / coin worth a few cents
– mukuyu / nkuyu : spirit of a deceased, shadow of a dead, phantom, ghost / imp, elf, hobgoblin
– mulamba : man, male / pair of trousers, pants
– mulambi : cook, chef / soup spoon, ladle
– mulari : Mukongo from the province of Pool in Congo Brazzaville
– mulemba / nsanda : security service
– mulolo : cry of joy, youyou / generation, family, people from a given place
– muluba (baluba) : member of an ethnic group whose vernacular language is Tshiluba
– muluwuku : desire to start a quarrel
– muluwululu : something that drags on, a very long story
– (mu)mbaka (bambaka) : pygmy
– mumbanda : partner, associate, shareholder / assistant to a healer / size, greatness / queen
– mumbu (miumbu) : drying rack or fence for hanging corn / corn hung to dry
– mumbu (miumbu) : enclosure, wall / plot of ground, garden / tobacco plantation / animal pen
– mumole (bamole) : person at fault, person in the wrong, traitor, traitress
– mumpala : stranger to the paternal and maternal clans / stranger, foreigner, enemy
– mumvuka : constituency, district
– mundele : person with fair or mixed skin; originally evil being, demon or terrorist
– mundibu : Mukongo from Mbanza-Ngungu territory
– mundombila : beggar
– mundongo : slave / bell with two clappers, bell with two tongues
– munduala : young girl, virgin girl
– munduki : rifle
– mundule : music tune
– munga : owner, landlord, landlady
– (mu)ngaduya : nuclear physics specialist
– mungala (bangala) : member of an ethnic group whose vernacular language is Lingala
– mungali : gigolo
– mungamvu : greed, gluttony
– munganda : slave
– munganga : doctor
– (mu)ngangeli : atom specialist, nuclear scientist
– mungizila : non-native, immigrant, person from elsewhere
– mungonga : great length of something / backbone / roll, roller
– mungongo : endless rain / hem, edge of a seam, large nervure, large vein
– mungongolo : rainbow
– mungu (miungu) : quarrelsome mood, quick-tempered person / liquid / quantity, abundance
– munguangua : intelligent person / straight and tall tree
– mungula : red ochre, red ocher, red clay
– mungula (miungula) : heat
– mungunu : old person
– mungunza : adult person
– munianga : Mukongo from Luwozi territory
– munienie : shooting star, meteor / sunbeam, spark, flash of a firearm / ant
– muningu / nningu : sound that resonates, melody, music tune, song, singing
– muningu / nningu : moaning, whistling, snoring
– munkanda : fall, tumble, somersault
– munkita : trade, economy
– munkolami / nkolami : disobedient person, insubordinate or rebellious person, recalcitrant
– munkolo : cry for help, clamour, cock-a-doodle-doo / sip of alcohol, drunkenness, drunkard
– munkuaka / munkuaku : saw
– munkuakasu : period of mourning, duration of mourning
– munkuikizi : believer, adept
– munsadisa : made-to-measure clothing
– munsansi : whistle, reed pipe, flute
– muntandu : Mukongo from Madimba territory
– muntebekele : spark
– muntekisila : down payment, payment on account, advance payment
– muntu (bantu) : man, human being, individual, person
– muntumbawu : male energy, manhood
– munuku : tiredness, weariness, fatigue / the one who gives up on pursuing
– munzita : female, woman, wife, spouse
– munziula : grave robber to steal bodies or the effects of the dead at night
– mupepe : air, wind
– musamba : prologue, preamble, prelude
– musambu / nsambu : footpath, path trodden in the grass, path trampled down in the grass
– musamuna : narrator, informant
– musenzi / nsenzi : unsociable person, fool, ill-mannered assimilated to monkey
– musielu : slippery
– musiesie / nsiesie : chief’s or fetish priest’s feather duster
– musolongo : Mukongo from the territory adjacent to the mouth of the Congo River
– musuebidi : secretary general
– munsueke : secretary
– musutu : uncircumcised man, uncircumcised penis
– muswahili : member of an ethnic group whose vernacular language is Swahili
– mutindu / ntindu : sort, kind, way, manner, example
– mutiopa (batiopa) : inhabitant of Katiopa (Africa, Land of the Sun)
– mutopi : ball, football
– mutua : pygmy
– mutundu : yellow-skinned person, Asian
– muvadi / mvadi : carpenter, engraver, sculptor, woodworker
– muvadila : carpenter
– muvema : movement
– muvila : villager in the city, countryman, countrywoman
– muvuamvuala : latecomer, laggard, straggler
– muwangi : architect
– muweza/i : unifier
– muwumbu : potter, manufacturer of clay pottery
– muyaka : Mukongo from Kuango province
– muyaku (bayaku) : yours, your fellow man(s), others, your neighbour
– muyalata / muyambati large area, large extent
– muyanana : young, new, neophyte, novice
– muyandi (bayandi) : his or her own, his or her fellow human beings, others, his/her neighbour
– muyawu (bayawu) : their (s), their (s) fellow man (s), others, their neighbour
– muyeno (bayeno) : yours, your fellow man (s), others, your neighbour
– muyeto (bayeto) : ours, our fellow human beings, others, our neighbour
– muyibi : thief, kleptomaniac
– muyimbidi / nyimbidi : singer, chorister
– muyinini : pile of excrement, heap of feces
– muyinga : ignoramus, uninitiated / great sorcerer very evil
– muyombe : Mukongo of the Mayombe in the Centre-West of the Kongo space
– muyosi / mviozi / miosi / mioso / nyosi : whistling through the mouth
– muziki : association for mutual aid and solidarity savings, member of this association
– muzombo : Mukongo from North-West Angola and South-Central Kongo Central
– muzulumbua : universe
– mvambasani : discord, dissension, spirit of division
– mvambu : branch, piece
– mvandi : sorcerer, person who portends, person who performs wonders, specialist in fetishes
– mvanga / mvanga-mvanga : district, country, region / side, direction
– mvangi / muvangi : creator, designer, manufacturer
– mvangilusi : manufacturer, industrialist
– mvanzakisi : investor, financier
– mvasu : piece, share, bit, scrap, lump, patch
– mvata : dirty and careless person who doesn’t care about people
– mvati : farmer, cultivator, planter, gardener
– mvelela : purity, holiness
– mvelele : clean person
– mveledi (baveledi) : saint, holy, immaculate, pure
– mvemba : white chalk / something white / white person, light complexion, light-colored, albino
– mvembila : great hunger, insatiable hunger
– mvengele : cheerfulness, joy
– mvengi : state of what is half-open, half-opening
– mvengo : part, compartment, division / company, regiment / troop, band, crowd / district
– mveti : hunter
– mvia : bad luck, hitch, mishap, contretemps, setback, difficulties / misfortune, accident / penis
– mviangi : smallness
– mviasani : opposite, tête-à-tête
– mviasu : bad luck
– mviba / mviba-mviba : thickness, size, hardness, callousness, toughness
– mviba / mvibu : whip, belt, strap, ribbon / bruise, scratch, swelling after whipping
– mvibangani : perversity, depravity, great injustice, perversion
– mvibangani : person who sees everything the wrong way
– mvibudulu : patience, tolerance
– mvidiba : greatness, size
– mvika : wife of a chief, queen / slave
– mviki : arsonist, fire raiser
– mvila (luvila) : genealogical lineage
– mvimba : totality, entirety
– mvimbu : swelling, bulge, large puffiness, abscess
– mvimpi : healthy person
– mvimpu : person victim of a sudden death
– mvimvi : pain, penalty, work, salary / satiety, disgust, loathing, swelling of the stomach
– mvinda : edge, edge of a forest, border / border of a cloth / plait of a basket, braid of a basket
– mvinda : result of excessive intake of food or drink
– mvindani : that which is taut, distended, very full or stuffed
– mvindi : stalk of the ear of maize, stem of the ear of corn, stem used to make baskets, stock
– mvindimina : darkness
– mvindu : dirt, filth, feces
– mvinzu : cloudy state, cloudy condition, lack of clarity / cloudy or poor quality palm wine
– mviodi / mviokula / mviongi : smallness, little hen, small chicken
– mvita : war, battle, confrontation
– mvondi : assassin, murderer, murderess, killer, executioner
– mvondo : rifle mouthpiece / nostril / papaya leaf / piece at the back of a dugout canoe
– mvovi : spokesperson, traditional lawyer, orator
– mvovo : speech, talk, word
– mvovolo : way of speaking, language, idiom
– mvu : year / grey hair
– mvuadi : faith, trust, hope / switch, stick or flexible branch to chastise children
– mvuadingisi : sower of disorder, troublemaker, sower of trouble
– mvuala : chief’s staff, chief’s stick, scepter, switch / chief’s messenger, envoy / lawyer
– mvuala / mvuela : cassock, boubou
– mvualangani : disorder, chaos, confusion, muddle, mess
– mvuama : rich, wealthy, funder, businessman / depth
– mvuamina / mvuatata : depth
– mvuamvula : whip, rod, cane
– mvuandulu : way of being, behaviour
– mvuangala : disorder, untidiness / stupid person / person who acts badly, nonchalant person
– mvuangu-mvuangu : wealth, abundance of something
– mvuania : someone who can’t stop a quarrel by envenoming it / pride, vanity
– mvuanzakani : disorder, scattering
– mvuanzu : hypocrisy
– mvuata : fashion, way of dressing
– mvuatu : clothing
– mvuaza : tobacco without force / disorder
– mvubi : rush that is used as fasteners or to make carpets
– mvubi : liar, deceiver, someone who causes confusion, someone who tends to exaggerate
– mvubudi : small sleep, little sleep, short sleep
– mvududulu : greatness, magnificence
– mvue : owner / possessive
– mvuebele : person with physical disability
– mvuela : cassock, loose dress, wide dress, veil / bottle of brandy
– mvuemba : person who speaks correctly and in a distinct way, person who sings well
– mvueto : depth / gluttony
– mvuezolo : feeling of hatred, hateful attitude, detestation
– mvuilu : ownership, possessions, personal assets, wealth
– mvuka : double fabric, doubled fabric, lined fabric
– mvukani : relationship, relation / reconciliation, bringing together, gathering, union, grouping
– mvukanu : unity
– mvuki : excess / double fabric, fabric with lining
– mvuki / mvukidi : song composer, singing composer
– mvukila : means of support, livelihood
– mvuku : aroma, perfume, fragrance, scent, skin smell / patience, tolerance / manure
– mvuku : union, act of uniting, coming together, confluence
– mvukula : invitation / whim, caprice
– mvula : rain, year
– mvulukulu : fat, stoutness, corpulence, overweight / way to become fat
– mvulukutu : size of a person
– mvulunga : indocility, intractability, disobedience
– mvuluzi : liberator, saviour
– mvuma : flower, flower bud / sensitivity, pain, anger / strong current
– mvumangi : size of birds
– mvumbi / mpungu : corpse, mortal remains
– mvundilu : rest, repose
– mvundubudi : quarrel
– mvundubulu : a quarrelsome person
– mvungi : shepherd, person responsible for grazing animals
– mvungila : soot, burning ash, soot flakes from a bushfire
– mvunginia : soot flakes from a bushfire, fire sparks, clouds of smoke
– mvungu : period ranging from a few days to a month / low voice, low sound, crash, din, echo
– mvungudi : pastor, shepherd, person in charge of looking after a herd
– mvungulu : visit to a sick person
– mvunguta : buzzing, humming, bass in music / potato
– mvungutila : rumour, hearsay
– mvungututu : beginning of dawn
– mvutu : return / answer, reply, retort, rejoinder, rebuttal, refutation / prayer, supplication
– mvutuka / mvutukulu : return
– mvutukila : restart, repetition, refrain
– mvutula : return, retaliation
– mvutulu : answer, response / rotation with fallow
– mvutuziani : dialogue, dialog, exchange of words
– nade : exact, right, coincident
– nadede : equally, exactly, rightly
– nana : eight
– nda : distance, remoteness, far, far away / side / ancestor
– ndaba : journey / eyelashes
– ndabudi / ndabulu : nap, snooze, sleeping time
– ndabulu : theft
– ndadi : lightning flash, lightning / marriage contract, alliance, spouse’s village, spouse’s family
– ndamba : action of cooking, way of cooking, culinary preparation / ring
– ndambu : part, half, piece, fragment, complement / region, division, section
– ndambu : side, edge, shore / direction
– ndambu : gum from the nsanda tree used to increase the sound of a drum
– ndambuka : length, extent, elongation, extension
– ndamuka : jump, leap, bound, spring
– ndamunuku : encrusting, encrustation, inlay
– ndamvu : size, height, greatness
– ndandana : succession / pulse, heartbeat
– ndandani / ndandasani : order, series, succession, sequence, single file, indian file
– ndandi : succession, continuation, successive order
– ndandu : gain, benefit, reward / pursuit / response, observation / embrace, hugging and kissing
– ndanga : desire to induce evil / espionage, investigation / pleasant taste
– ndanga : stay, delay
– ndangala / ndangalakani : very slender person, the one who is very tall, giant
– ndangama : delay / embarrassment, inconvenience, importunity
– ndangani : disagreement
– ndangi : excitement, desire to provoke / spy / paddle, oar
– ndangidila : watch, lookout, surveillance
– ndangu : fishermen’s camp / small spoon / maybe
– ndara : traditional lyre, type of folk music and the dance associated with it
– ndatansangu : news pedlar, newsmonger, gossipmonger
– ndatukunu : migration, moving, transport
– ndavi / ndavila : messenger, bearer / commission, message
– ndaza : misfortune, curse
– nde : slowness to obey a command, slowness to execute immediately
– ndebe : something small, something insignificant
– ndebila : softness, flabbiness, suppleness / unripe banana
– ndebo : kind of very long net, seine, draw net
– ndebolo : persuasion, who seeks to persuade, who puts pressure on / theft
– ndebukila / ndekila : spark
– ndeda : garland of pearls worn around the hips / hair cut in the round
– ndedakani : resemblance, likeness, similarity / agreement
– ndefi : oath, bet / supporting evidence, confirmation
– ndeke : aeroplane, aircraft
– ndeki : born yesterday, what is put aside for the night / acid
– ndekila : spark
– ndekina : primer, fuse, detonator, percussion, cartridge cap
– ndeko : manner, way, method, resource, exit / proximity / berth, lodging, resting place
– ndeko : side, side of the chest / edge, selvedge
– ndela : opening, window / rifle bullet, lead / earring, finger ring
– ndele : help, sending help / ear ring, finger ring
– ndema : everish or burning state / order
– ndemba : appeasement, calm, softening / headache / thin, green pod of the bean
– ndembakani : abandonment, discouragement, failure
– ndembami : nonviolence, gentleness, kindness, considerateness, tact, humility
– ndembe : quietly, gently / fringes made of palm leaves
– ndembi : difficulty in knowing, difficulty in learning, difficulty in acting / diving / chives
– ndembo / ndembolo : size, greatness
– ndembo : place where we are / kind of drum / red powder from the clayey stone
– ndembo : initiation school, language taught in this school
– ndemboko / ndembokolo : clemency, mercy / relief
– ndemo : weight, heaviness, gravity / what is slippery / death in a wolf hole
– ndemuka : flight / jump, leap
– ndemvangana : weakness, incapability, incapacity, inability
– ndemvokolo : forgiveness, mercy / the one who forgives, the one who shows mercy
– ndena / ndende : that one, him over there
– ndenda : owner, possessor / power, ability, capability, aptitude, faculty
– ndende : pebble or shingle of a clayey soil / valley, plateau, plain
– ndende : command in the market place / that one, him over there
– ndenga-ndenga : slowness
– ndenge : newborn
– ndengi : red bracelet in celluloid
– ndengo : edge / lustfulness, lechery / that which is silky or soft / softness, encouragement, gift
– ndengolo : rotation with fallow
– ndengula : slander
– ndeva : loan
– ndezi : little boy, little girl / nanny, child-minder, nurse / placenta
– ndiakusunu : treatment of a disease, care
– ndiamu : grave, tomb
– ndiata : parade, procession, march, walking / animal trap / rest of safous on the trees, gleanings
– ndiatilu / ndiatulu : behaviour, conduct, way of behaving
– ndiatu : step of walking
– ndiatulu : gait, pace, way of walking
– ndiedi / ndiedie : stripe, streak, stroke, line / edge around something, ribbon to border
– ndiena : there demonstrative, that one
– ndikila : poison, food with harmful effects, magic potion
– ndikitila : greatness, size
– ndiku : friend, comrade, acquaintance / bait
– ndikudulu : poison
– ndikuka / ndikunu : shake, jolt, shock, shaking
– ndikulu : sacrifice
– ndilu : boundary, border, level / food, action of eating, way of eating
– ndima : sale on credit / major clearing, deforestation, new cultivation
– ndima : depth, deep place / time / criminal, malicious
– ndimba : stone of clayey soil, pebble of clay earth / deep valley
– ndimbu : latex ball, football, soccer ball / small calabash / disobedience, indiscipline
– ndinda : retribution, revenge
– ndindi : knot / stick / size / clitoris / gut of an animal, bowel of an animal
– ndinga : voice, language, dialect
– ndingadi : Senegalese, generic name of a West African
– ndingi : moans, groans, lamentations, cries of distress, sobs / funeral song, elegy
– ndingi : copal, resinous stone that can burn / rock crystal, hail / bell, cowbell
– ndingi : palm wine used to calm, stagnant water in the hollow of a tree used to heal
– ndingi : acidulous plant that is chewed to quench thirst or to cure
– ndingisi : traditional judge
– ndingu : opportunity, quiet moment, favourable time / budding cereal, renewal, upsurge
– ndingunu : resounding noise
– ndinzi : branch, stem / main vein of a leaf
– ndioba : pretty girl / kind of dance
– ndiodio : tip, pointed end
– ndioyo : here demonstrative, this one
– ndisa : food, something to sustain life, money
– ndisu : divisional coin of the former Kongo currency unit / sighting gear, backsight
– ndiuvu : alcoholic, drunkard
– ndo : camp, hostel, place to spend the night, place to stay overnight / season / distance
– ndobani : fishing line
– ndobo : fishhook / clay, colour/ advance payment
– ndoda : rifle, capsule rifle / small basket
– ndofi : oath / messenger, envoy, representative
– ndoka : downpour, sudden shower, rain / stem, trunk / depression of the neck / double chin
– ndoki author of a charm, of an evil spell or a curse, sorcerer / genie, expert
– ndokila : sound of a gunshot, crackling
– ndoko : bad luck, misfortune / bewitchment
– ndokula : talkative person / brigand, bandit
– ndola : chastisement, castigation, punishment
– ndolo : noise, din, uproar / who scolds, who insults / abundance, a lot of, many
– ndolo : period of heavy rains in the rainy season
– ndoloki : forgiveness
– ndoluka : remnant of the cloth used as a shroud, remnant of the cloth received as a blessing
– ndoluka : absolution received / braid of hats, braid of grass, braided rope
– ndolula : absolution given, absolution granted
– ndombe : blackness, darkness / black man,what is black or dark
– ndombolo : request, application process / Congolese dance created in the late 90s
– ndombolo : darkening, blackening
– ndomi : great length or great height
– ndomo : jump, leap, bound, spring / a kind of dance
– ndona : lady, title preceding a woman’s name / venerable woman / mother of grown children
– ndona-bidi / nebidi : hurricane, cyclone, tornado
– ndonda : repair / what is mended ou repaired
– ndonda : person who constantly talks like a madman while seeking the quarrel
– ndonda : entrance of a nest, hole in the ground that serves as an entrance for ants
– ndondidila : mending, darning, repair
– ndondo : result, consequence / that one / slave bought
– ndonga : which teaches / teaching, diction, wisdom advice
– ndonga : tall person of size / limit / reel, spindle / crowd, group, class
– ndongakani submission, submissiveness, obedience, apprentice, pupil, student
– ndongi : education, lesson / discipline, reprimand, rebuke, punishment, sentence, conviction
– ndongiki : computer
– ndongisila : opinion, judgement, advice, recommendation, instigation, incitement, teaching
– ndongokolo : instruction, teaching, learning, study, education
– ndongolo : education, schooling, instruction, science, teaching
– ndongosolo : teaching
– ndonguta : exploration, philosophical research, investigation
– ndonguti : someone who explores, someone who does research, philosopher
– ndosa : kongo folk dance
– ndoyi : homonymous
– ndozi : dream
– nduadi / nduadu : injury, wound, graze, scratch
– nduadila / nduadulu : cutting edge, that which wounds
– nduakulu : arrival, access / resource, abundance
– nduanisinu : confrontation, conflict
– ndudi : bitterness
– nduenga : wisdom, insight, intelligence, elite, intellectual
– nduengisi : adviser
– nduengoso : advice
– nduengosolo : awakening, prevention, warning
– nduezi : small wounds everywhere
– ndufuka : explosion
– nduinu : drink, beverage, action of drinking
– nduka : boy, girl / cave, house without walls / large street of a village / proximity
– nduka : vomiting / stench / anger / market day
– nduka : caution, prudence, intelligence, cunning, foreseeing mind, calculating mind
– nduki : virgin (boy), virgin woman / the unexpected
– ndukila : big noise / big eyes, calf’s eye
– nduku : friend, comrade / banana plantation / narrow valley, narrow passage / oath / soldier
– nduku : spring, fountain, water vein, covered ditch / nosebleed / kind of game
– ndukuta : hot, stifling, suffocating, stuffy, sweaty
– ndukutila : sweat, suffocating heat, stifling heat, sweltering heat
– ndula : grass that has grown recently, patch of grass that is burned after a bushfire
– ndula : power to sell humans to sorcerers / fish that have stayed in the fish trap for a long time
– ndumba : mixture, blend, mix, combination, adulteration / state of what is blunted
– ndumba : young girl, young lady
– ndumu : lightning, thunder, sound resounding
– ndundu : albino, white-skinned person
– ndunga : season / size, height, size attribute, height attribute / coned drum, tapered drum
– ndunga (bandunga) : secret society
– ndungu : cask, barrel
– ndungula : burning heat, suffocating heat, sweating / length
– ndungulu : torment, suffering, pain / barrel / reign that imposes heavy taxes
– ndungu-ndungu : warmth
– ndungunu : victory
– ndungusulu : expression, embodiment, attainment
– ndungutila : heavy heat, stifling heat, suffocating heat, warmth
– ndungututu : greatness, immensity
– ndungwa : torment
– ndununu : aging, decrepitude, wear and tear
– ndunza : pain, any kind of pain / anger
– ndunzi : luck, happiness, prosperity, happy event, pleasure of receiving a lot
– ndunzi / ndinzi : nerve, main rib of a leaf
– ndusi : namesake, person with the name of an ascendant, heir to the name of an ancestor
– nduta : passage / excellence / profit, gain, percentage, rate, private income / bush fire
– Ne : honorary title that we precede the name of a Mukongo of high spiritual level
– nene : big, large, wide, vast
– nenga (nnenga / manenga) : secret consultation / species of rat
– nengo : slope, side of a hill / tattoo
– nengolo : the powerful, the almighty
– nengwa : madam, such a person
– neti : it seems, almost
