V.8. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 8/10 (ng-nk)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– ngabi / nkati : middle, interior, inner, inside
– ngabuki : medicine specialist
– ngadami / ngadumu : cowrie shell
– ngadi : joy
– ngadielo : shepherdess, herdsman, shepherd
– ngafi : the one who acts with vigour, with power or perseverance / cheat, rogue, scoundrel
– ngakazi / ngakikisa : feeling of fear, shudder
– ngakina : bitterness
– ngakisina : capitalist
– ngaku : source of fertility, hiding place for treasures
– ngala / ngali : railway station
– ngala : cutting edge, sharpening
– ngalanga : evacuation, faeces
– ngalasisi : exercise, training
– ngalu : braid on the sleeve, scarf / large bottle, small demijohn / strainer, colander, sieve
– ngaluka / ngaluluka : heatwave, burning heat, scorching heat, white heat
– ngama / ngambu : fainting, numbness, syncope, fainting fit, swoon
– ngama : anger, irritation / sour palm wine / monkey
– ngamavia : agricultural specialist
– ngamba / ngambu : : domestic, servant, porter, worker, labourer
– ngamba : gift reserved for those who helped plow a field, tip
– ngamba : food prepared to feed those who helped plow a field
– ngamboma : commander of a military base
– ngambu : bank, side / fainting, syncope, fainting fit, swoon
– ngambuila : expanse of the sky, of the atmosphere or of the heavens, firmament
– ngambula : whirlpool, maelström
– ngamela : house or mortuary room where the corpse is laid before burying it
– ngami / ngami-ngami : anger, irritation, resentment / strong acidity, shooting pain in the teeth
– ngami : flood, overflow / head, leader, chief
– ngamu : footpath, trail
– ngana / ngani : others
– nganda : outside, courtyard, yard, ground, field, pitch, public square
– nganda : deserted house of a dead person, house of mourning
– ngandu : crocodile, cayman, transport controller
– nganga : scholar, scientist, person capable of inventing, person who is gifted for research
– nganga : expert, connoisseur, specialist, marabout, person who practices the occult sciences
– nganga : idolatrous priest, priest’s helper, doctor, fortune teller
– nganga-manga : diviner or soothsayer to identify the source of evil, hunter of evil spirits
– nganga-mayela: expert
– nganga-mbuki : healer, medicine specialist
– nganga-ngombo : diviner
– nganga-nkasa : person in charge of making the lie detector potion drink
– nganga-nkisi : witchdoctor, healer, medicinal plant specialist
– ngangi : irritable person, liar, deceiver / acid
– ngangu : shrewdness, insight, perspicacity, cunning, astuteness, skill, dexterity, gift, talent
– ngangu : intelligence, action of creating, action of designing, creative intelligence
– ngangula : blacksmith, locksmith, metal worker / craftsman / action of mutilating
– ngangulu : logic
– ngangulula : restoration, rehabilitation
– ngani : anger / acidity, sourness / grain of sand in the food / rattan palm
– ngani : others, stranger
– ngantuka : acidity
– nganzi : anger, ire, fury, wrath
– ngatemo : being of light
– ngatumi : commander, army general
– ngebu-ngebu : prettiness, elegance, coquetry, splendour, youth
– ngele-ngele : bell ringing, ting-a-ling-a-ling
– ngemba : tranquility, calmness, peace
– ngenda : function, office, noble title, dignity, privilege
– ngenga : gap, side, aside, nearby, closeness, proximity, edge, bank, shore / wand to set a trap
– ngenga : perte de souffle, sensation de vertige au bord d’un précipice
– ngengola : heat (of the sun), heatwave
– ngenza : chatter, insulting words, offensive words, abusive speech / clot, lump
– ngezi / nigezi : brilliance, brightness
– ngeziki : engineer
– ngiambila : talk, chat, conversation, interview, dialogue, dialog
– ngiangi : disobedient / knave, scoundrel, rogue, cheat, double-dealer, impostor / deception
– ngiania : lawyer, intermediary, orator, preacher, witness to the word of God
– ngianza : pride, vanity, presumptuousness, boasting, bragging / pleasure of slandering, slander
– ngiba / ngibulu : theft, act of stealing / adultery
– ngidizi : splinting of railway rails
– ngiembo / niembo : good fortune, happiness, felicity
– ngiemo : who is sucking, newborn
– ngienda : departure
– ngika : addition, supplement / reinforcement beam
– ngikakana : meeting, gathering
– ngikani : conspiracy, plot
– ngikanu : joint, fitting together, fitting into each other
– ngikila : addition, attribute / tendency to want or demand more
– ngindi : pride, arrogance, boasting / pole to which the fish trap line is attached / cassava cake
– ngindu : idea, thought, reflection, opinion
– nginga : grain, seed / great war
– ngingi : pulse, agitation, restlessness, worry, anxiety / firmness, solidity, immobility
– ngingima : size of the precipice, size of the abyss / monster, fabulous animal
– ngingu : understanding, agreement, association, partnership, federation / border, moderation
– ngionzakana : assembly, gathering
– ngionzoko / ngionzokolo : piling up, heaping up, harvesting / association, grouping
– ngisu : attribute of rawness, freshness, non-cooking or greenery
– ngita / ngitamu : battle, war, revolt, riot, uprising
– ngita : heap, pile, mass, crowd / lobe of palm leaf tied as a fetish
– ngitila : seminar
– ngitingila : cataclysm, major natural desaster, great disrupting
– ngitukulu / ngitukua : astonishment, amazement, wonder, interjection
– ngiuvu : question, interrogation
– ngiza / ngwiza : arrival, advent
– ngizulu / ngwizulu : coming
– ngo : no, refusal / leopard, cheetah
– ngofo / ngovo : in vain, free of charge, attribute of gratuitousness
– ngola : reddish earth used for make-up, freshwater fish species
– ngola : Kongo Go game / diviner, soothsayer, fortune teller
– ngolo : strength, power
– ngolokoso : person who spreads fake news / big protruding tooth
– ngoma : tam-tam, drum / starch / big cake
– ngombe : secret / sale of a person in secret, execution of a person who has been exonerated
– ngombo : divinatory art, bewitchment / raffia fabric, native loincloth
– ngonda / ngondi / ngondo : moon, month, menses, lunar phase / murder, that which is deadly
– ngondolo : murder, killing, slaughter
– ngonga : length, height
– ngongi : percussion instrument composed of two bells without clappers
– ngongo : energetic refusal, contrary to one’s will, opposition / fear, fright, anguish, distress
– ngongo : last layer of straw that is put on the roof / back of a book / drop in level of a river
– ngongofi : tickling
– ngongolo : gigantic size
– ngongongo : edge, hem, hemline of a garment, sewn border of a garment
– ngoni : sweetness of wine
– ngoto : raffia fabric, raffia fibre, raffia bag
– ngovo : free
– ngubi : crook, rogue, swindler, thief
– ngudi : mother, foundation, major, essential, real, genuine, veritable
– ngudi : interior, middle, heart, core / truth / clod of earth
– ngudiata : straight talking, truth
– ngulu : pig, stowaway in the luggage of a real passenger
– ngulunga : pain
– ngulu-ngulu : without precautions, without mistrust, headlong
– ngulupa : group, troop, herd
– nguma : irritable mood, violent mood / sensitivity / murmur of the crowd, moaning, howling
– ngumbila : thunderstorm, storm
– ngumbu : steep slope / barrier, fence / bedroom, cavern / vault, arch, dome / low wall, screen
– nguna : whiteness of a fabric
– ngunda : desire, craving, thirst, envy, search of pleasure, lust / sorrow, hardship
– ngunda : intent, intention, thought, mind, idea, hope / refuge, exile, asylum
– ngunda-ngunda : strength, force, tyranny
– ngundu : clearing, deforestation / fur hat, skullcap / species of nightingale
– ngunga : bell, doorbell, ringing, hour, time / burial vault, tomb vault, grave vault
– ngunga : something accessible to everyone / torrent, rapid
– ngungu : sacred flesh / taboo / sperm / peas
– ngungula : torrent, flood, rapid / crowd / loud noise of a choir / red ochre stone
– ngunza : reddish clay, greenish colored stone / stay, prop, strut, support
– ngunza : spokesperson, ambassador / prophet, animist priest / greatness
– nguvulu : governor
– nguya : telescope, bezel, scope, compass / porcupine
– nguzi : insult, affront, slander, insolent and mean words / sewing thread
– ngwa : mother, woman, female / maternal kinship
– ngwala : friend, comrade, colleague
– ngwalazi : riddle
– ngwankazi : uncle, Belgian colonist
– ngwanzu : informal trade in Chinese counterfeit products (from Gouang Zhou City)
– ngwasuma : exhilaration with rhythms, exhilaration with pleasure
– ngwe : sir, excellency, honourable, respectable
– ngwi : great form, firmness, determination, stability
– ngwida : spade, card game
– ngwisanesa : action for reconciliation, making up
– ngwiya : guide, compass
– ngwizani : agreement, reconciliation, bringing together, rapprochement, cooperation
– ngwulumuka : fall of a large number of objects, collapse, landslide, landslip, avalanche
– niama : beast, animal
– niamba : rising, swelling, flood
– nianga : straw, thatch
– niangalakata : good-for-nothing, fool, idiot
– nianzi : dirtiness, filthiness, dirt, filth / fly
– niekese : soft feel, comfort, elasticity, suppleness
– niema (maniema) : piece of wood that tips over into an animal trap / large carpet, blanket
– niembe : edge of a hat, hat brim
– niende : fine powder
– nienga : multitude / cruelty
– nienge : sand
– niengula : field ploughed after the fire has burned the grass
– nienze / nienzi / nienzu : enjoyment, joy, satisfaction, contentment, pleasure, well-being
– nienzi / nienzu : enjoyment, good feeling, good taste, joy, satisfaction, pleasure, well-being
– niese / nniese : joy, amusement, fun / pleasure in eating a little at a time / delicacy of execution
– nieta / manieta : gentleness, tenderness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of liveliness, unwieldiness
– nihimbi : deep universe, space night
– niku-niku : continuous shakes / commotion, confusion, hubbub, big din, great uproar
– nima : back, reverse side, wrong side
– nima-koko : slap given with the back of the hand
– nima-nzo : backyard, a woman’s rump
– nimbunu : ruin, loss
– nimelo : number, size
– ninga : jealousy / harshness, cruelty, lack of obligingness / avarice, miserliness, thrift
– niombo : corpse / musk odour, smell of musk, strong-smelling glands / the late person
– nionio : a little bit, a little / someone who gives a little
– niosa : fat that shines on the face
– nioto-nioto : dirt
– nitu : body
– nivo : level
– nkaba : sharing, gift, donation, abundance / piece of cassava
– nkabi : distributor, cupbearer, retail seller
– nkabu : remedy mixed with salt / gift, bonus / share, part / breach, neglect, carelessness
– nkabu : indelicacy, effrontery, audacity, boldness, indiscretion, person who has those faults
– nkabu : courage, fearlessness, rashness, recklessness, manliness, virility, resistance, opposition
– nkabu : person who is prone to, person who is addicted to
– nkabulu : alms, gift / division
– nkabunu : split, schism, separation / party, party
– nkada : worry, anxiety, irritation / small pile of excrement, small pile of feces
– nkadi : sorcerer, witch, evil genius / devil, demon, cruel person / witchcraft / ghost, phantom
– nkadi : bitterness, roughness, harshness, dryness / good taste of what is dry
– nkadi : dirt / that which is bitter or acrid
– nkadi : someone who is, someone who has become / goods or properties for sale
– nkadi / nkadila : person who denies
– nkadiampemba : satan, person with evil intentions
– nkadilu / nkadulu : way of being, behaviour / person who denies / fate
– nkadita (makadita) : patience, tolerance
– nkadulu : negation, denial, refusal / position, situation / behaviour, way of being / fate
– nkadulu : form, shape, way, manner, appearance, look / existence, quality, state, condition
– nkadu : handle
– nkafi : paddle, oar, rowing
– nkafi / nkafu / nkafuku : anger, indignation, irritation, annoyance
– nkafinina : seizure, taking, capture, grasping, grip
– nkafuna : blow, knock
– nkafunga : quick-tempered person, touchy person, irritable person / anger, irritation, annoyance
– nkaka : other, alternative / that which is green, which is not mature / grandparent, ancestor
– nkaka : law, decree, decision, rule / alliance / rapidity / complete piece, the entirety of a set
– nkaka : field ploughed after the bush fire, field reclaimed and cleared of weeds
– nkakala : irregularity, unevenness, roughness / imparity, peculiarity / species of tree
– nkakila : fish trap
– nkakilingi : barricade
– nkaku : obstacle, dam, opposition, barrier, shield, fence, impediment, obstruction, curtain, wall
– nkaku : jealousy
– nkakudulu : sth that prevents, that impedes, that obstructs / opposition, resistance / brake, stop
– nkakumusu : impediment, obstruction
– nkala : flower bed, clod of soil intended for plant cultivation / grave mound / crab
– nkala : side, obverse, head side / part, share / peel, scalding / dye, color in general
– nkala : sterile man / lime / heel
– nkalasani : relationship
– nkalete : first cockcrow
– nkalu : refusal, denial, opposition / peace gift, reconciliation gift / jug, pitcher
– nkama : one hundred / dam on a watercourse, dyke, breakwater / wife, spouse / queen
– nkamba : peace, calmness, quietness, tranquility, a calm that cannot be disturbed, fine weather
– nkamba : kind of big bowl / species of tree from which boards are drawn
– nkamba : mention, quotation / easel, trestle, spring in a rifle / edge of the cleared field / row
– nkamba : amulets that a woman puts around her neck to protect herself or to heal
– nkampa : loincloth, piece of cloth / blanket, coat / circle, circumference
– nkamu : sudden death / kind of weed
– nkamvi : leftover of a fruit from which the juice has been extracted
– nkamvi : heap of unburned herbs, piles of leaves
– nkana : flushed anger, towering rage
– nkananga : who intends to hurt
– nkanda : book, booklet, letter, mail / metal blade / skin, leather, hide, bark, crust, casing, husk
– nkanda : iron ring, barrel circle / hillock, mound, tomb, sepulchre / egg white
– nkanda : harshness, spitefulness / serious illness / narrow and conical woven mouse trap
– nkandi : shell or stone of the palm nut
– nkandu : law, rule, decree / prohibited period / small drum / thickness, density, firmness
– nkandu : honour, respect, person who inspires respect, imposing person, commanding person
– nkandu : one of the days of the Kongo week which had four / trap
– nkandukulu : prohibition / medicine
– nkanga : action of binding / what is tied, what is taken / old rifle / roasted, burned / heap, crowd
– nkangadi : savior, protector, servant / wanderer, traveler, fellow traveler
– nkangala : walk, tour, trip, excursion, travel, journey, way of traveling / visit
– nkangalu : travel, society, camaraderie, visit that we do
– nkangani : entanglement
– nkangazi : fellow traveler, traveler, servant / footman, travel assistant
– nkangazi : object that one always has with oneself when traveling / shade, reflection
– nkangi : fastener / hinge / hook, fish hook / cross, iron cross / kind of dance
– nkangu : people, population, community, crowd, mass, partisans, supporters, army
– nkangu : light, indigenous lamp / purchase or payment without test or trial
– nkangu : agreement, settlement, alliance, contract, commitment / subject, slave, serf
– nkangu : burial, winding sheet, shroud / amulet worn as bracelet
– nkangua : agreement, settlement, understanding
– nkangulu : travel, journey / meal, feed / buckle, fastener, clasp, staple
– nkani : person in charge of arresting a defendant, bailiff / violent man, barbarian / fearlessness
– nkani : tall person / intelligent person, smart person, clever person, businessman
– nkani : beauty, prettiness, honesty, charm, characteristic of that which is pleasant or delightful
– nkania : rough stone used to scrape the skin
– nkanikina : injunction, obligation, precept
– nkanikinu : promise, oath of allegiance / order, summons, notice, injunction, warning
– nkani-nkani : intention, purpose, intent
– nkanka : mouthful, bite / share of the dowry reserved for the father or both parents of the bride
– nkanka : threat, threatening gesture / faith, trust, assurance, confidence, faithfulness, religion
– nkanka : goodness, kindliness, great kindness, great dedication / selflessness, spirit of sacrifice
– nkanka : small split through which the palm wine flows
– nkankala : fence made from palm branch with braided leaves
– nkanu : litigation, offense, misdemeanor, crime, accusation, writ of summons, trial, sentence
– nkanu : decision, resolution / fold, furrow, wrinkle, line
– nkanunu : advice
– nkanzi : large island / valley / unburned bush grass / very old pitcher / cotton plant
– nkasa : truth-detecting potion becoming poison in case of lies, anti-sorcerer potion
– nkasi : strap, belt, leather strap / middle / cruel decision
– nkasila : bite of chewed food, mouthful of food chewed
– nkasu : strength, vigour / strong drink / harsh words / sudden death
– nkasu : quality of what is big and fat
– nkasudulu : something that cuts hunger off, sth that quenches thirst, sth that gives strength
– nkata : roll of fabric or grass used as a cushion for the load carried on the head
– nkata : lap, seat formed by the thighs while crossing the legs in order to seat a child
– nkati : what is radical, what is most important, the true meaning, the true significance
– nkatika : real, really, quite, entirely, par excellence
– nkatu : thickness, resistance, firmness / strong pain / bitter taste
– nkatu : no, negative, nothing, emptiness void, zero
– nkatu : what which is brocaded, what which is connected to, what which is fixed to
– nkatukulu : withdrawal, retreat, retirement, departure
– nkatulu : what is taken, what is removed, what is taken away, what is carried away
– nkatu-nkatu : strength, energy, power / smarting pain, burning pain
– nkauwa : present that is offered to the healer before he treats a sick person
– nkava : high cost, state of what is precious
– nkawa / nkawu : stick, rattan cane, rotang palm stick, rotang liana
– nkawa / nkawu : warning, alarm signal, call for the dog to hunt
– nkawa : emissary, ambassador
– nkayi : paddle
– nkayilu : talent, donation, gift, present, sacrifice
– nke / nkeke : little
– nkefu / nkefo / (di)kefo : strong smell, bad odour, stench, cadaveric smell
– nkefu / nkefua : gas, emanation, scent, fragrance, smell
– nkefua / (ki)kefo : spicy flavour, bitter flavour, burning flavour
– nkeka : child in the cradle, baby, small child
– nkeka : incision made on the palm tree to draw out the wine
– nkeke : strong anger that wrings the throat and prevents words from coming out of the mouth
– nkekele : mutilated person, maimed person, spineless animal
– nkeki : back, lower back, waist, side of a palm leaf
– nkekila : cackle, cackling, chuckling
– nkeko : edge / awakened desire, provoked desire, covetousness
– nkekomono : spitting
– nkela : packing case, box, chest, coffin
– nkele : rifle, firearm
– nkelele : drizzle, fine rain / guinea fowl, peacock / mushroom species
– nkelo : attention, subtlety / forge bellows / box, case, crate, chest
– nkelo : water source, fountain, tap / funnel
– nkema : feeling of something abominable, dreadful or appalling
– nkembi : bell, small wooden bell for hunting dogs, small wooden swing bell for hunting dogs
– nkembo : glory, rejoicing
– nkembolo : celebration, rejoicing, festivities, commemoration, praise
– nkemi / nkeme / nkemo : cruelty, spitefulness, harshness of heart, violence, rage, desire to kill
– nkemuki : reserve, discretion
– nkenda : pity, forgiveness, favour, compassion, charity, sympathy, condolences / grief, sorrow
– nkenda : benevolence, favour, ambition for the good
– nkenda / nkendi : story, tale, news, gossip, chatter, habit of chattering
– nkene (mankene) : sorrow, grief / gruff mood, surly mood, grumpy mood / disobedience
– nkenene : rivalry / rage, fury, resentment / whining, snivelling / who deceives, deception
– nkenge : young lady, pretty person, beauty / quality of taking care of each other
– nkenge : one of the days of the week reserved for the market, market / species of thorn tree
– nkengezi : kind of whitish and rough stones that litter the paths
– nkengi / mukengi : supervisor, guard, security officer
– nkengidika : glue for making lime twigs / pot used to melt glue
– nkengisila : gravel
– nkeni : seed, grasses seed, grain, pod / cup
– nkeni : feeling of disgust, heave, retching / cruelty
– nkenia : thinness, skinniness
– nkenia-ufiku : satire, human-headed monster
– nkenka : crampon / kind of game
– nkenke : precaution, cunning
– nkenke / nkenkenke : very small, tiny, minute, minuscule
– nkenkinia : cadaveric odour, cadaverous smell
– nkenkitina : act of receiving little at a time
– nkenko / nkento : agreement, convention
– nkenko : palm tree disease
– nkenkunuka : disgust, aversion
– nkento : female, woman, wife
– nkenza : person who chatters non-stop, person who talks constantly
– nkenzengele : knot, kneecap, ball joint
– nkenzi : very ragged person / rags / fine for spilled blood / abundance of
– nkenzo : misery, difficulty, lamentation, pain, suffering, sensitivity of an abscess
– nkenzo : ardour, application to work / funnel made with leaves / piece of calabash
– nkenzo : something disgusting to see
– nkesi : anger, wrath, bitterness, indignation, cause of revolt
– nkesi-nkesi : glow, glimmer, sunbeam, last rays of sunlight, light ray through a hole
– nkeso / nkesono : wood splinter / fragment, piece, bit of something
– nkeso-nkeso : great fragility
– nkewo-nkewo : ambiguity, doubt, scruple
– nketa : bunch or cluster of fruits / bundle or bunch of corn / swarm of bees
– nketa : peanut shell narrow in the middle and wider at the ends
– nketa / nkete : gathers, wrinkles, roughness / folds of a fabric
– nketa-nketa : gathers / very gathered, very puckered
– nketami : heretic
– nketani : the one who watches and stays on the lookout to find a reason for accusing someone
– nketani : disagreement, conflict, war
– nkete : skilful person in his specialty, person who does his job well / craftsman, worker
– nkete : benevolent, honest, good, obliging, kind, compassionate, generous person
– nketekelo / nketikila : narrowed part in the middle between two wide ends, wasp waist
– nketikila / nketekelo : mark left by something that we wore, mark left by a knotted cord
– nketokolo : obstruction, refusal
– nkewa / nkozi / lukamba : rattan belt used to climb palm trees
– nkeya : uproar, cry, lamentation, chatter / brandy
– nkezima / nkezimi : something that reflects, shines, illuminates, gleams, sparkles
– nkezi-nkezi : light ray, beam, sparkling, glittering, twinkling, reflection, spark, glare, brilliance
– nkia : respect, dedication / taste, preference / bell clapper / pure face, clear complexion
– nkiadi : burst of laughter, contempt / drawing on a carpet, drawing on a rug
– nkiaka / nkiakasa : laugh
– nkiakasa / nkiakata / nkiakatala : bad smell, bad odour
– nkiama : rainbow
– nkianza : pride / rat species
– nkianzuka : hope, expectation, agreement, settlement, understanding
– nkiata : order, prescription, agreement, settlement, understanding
– nkibi : walker, stroller, rambler, traveler, the one who wanders
– nkibulu : journey, manner of traveling, travel bag
– nkidi : gum in a bottle
– nkidi / nkudi : mouthful, sip
– nkiduku : part of the dowry received by the bride’s father
– nkiduku : fetish object made from snail shell
– nkiela : burst of laughter, fit of the giggles, disdainful laughter, scornful laughter
– nkiela : daylight, fine weather / bad smell, bad odour
– nkielo : break, opening, rift, bright interval, daylight, dawn / beginning of the dry season
– nkielo : fruit picking / fountain, funnel made with a calabash
– nkiengie : small bell / moustache, cat hair
– nkiengo : pleasant taste / red earth, terracotta in the hearth
– nkienie / nkienkie : stink, stench
– nkiesa : daybreak, dawn / sneeze
– nkiesolo : clarification, elucidation, explanation
– nkika : share, part / fabric woof, fabric weft
– nkika / nkiku : screen, partition
– nkiku : visit to a sick person / meeting, reunion / customs, manners / rule, law
– nkikunu : the one who is responsible
– nkikua : protection, shield
– nkila : edge, line / market name / tail
– nkilu : thick tree sap, resin, copal gum
– nkiluku : medicine, copal gum used as medicine / species of tall tree
– nkimba : secret society, person initiated to mysteries, enchanter
– nkimbu : strength, energy, vigour / latrines / small cooking pot
– nkimu : strength, vigour / bitterness, harshness to taste, sourness to taste
– nkinda : tie, string, cord / encouragement gift / vigour, strength
– nkinda : respect, who inspires respect, influence / protection fetish, power of fetishes
– nkinda-nkinda : unserious person who cannot be trusted / firm and constant man
– nkindi : belt, support scarf, something that gives strength, balance, stability or firmness
– nkindi : clapper bell that is rung when a great chief goes out to travel
– nkindi-nkindi : that which is unsteady, which staggers, which wobbles or which wavers
– nkindu : brawl, quarrel, revolt, popular uprising, din, uproar, tumult / war, battle
– nkindu : sound of walking, sound of paws or footsteps / the one who pounds on the mortar
– nkindukunu : weakness due to illness / strength, stability
– nkindulu : strength, support
– nkindusu / nkinda : encouragement gift
– nkinga : time / sort of small wicker basket
– nkingu : taboo, interdict, prohibition, law / convention, regulation / heap, mass, crowd / neck
– nkingu : stick used to stretch the straws in order to plait the mats
– nkinia : contempt, disdain, willingness to quarrel, abusive speech / provocation, threat
– nkinia : praise, exaltation, joy, rejoicing
– nkinka : part of something, container not filled
– nkinki / kunku : share, part, portion, fraction
– nkinkita : swelling / furrow, line, wrinkle, ray, stripe, relief / bankrupt
– nkinkiti : scratch
– nkinsumunu : humiliation
– nkinu : way of dancing, dance
– nkinza / nkinzi : something or matter which is a cause of impediment
– nkinzi : fete, celebration, festival, feast / thing, circumstance, motive, cause / need, necessity
– nkinzingidi : festival
– nkisi : fetish, witchcraft, spell, charm / traditional medicine
– nkita : very high price / deception
– nko : formal intent to harm, voluntary action to harm
– nkobo : thickness / hardness, roughness, muscle strength / grass used to cover roofs
– nkodi : prisoner / big cock, big rooster / white-throated buzzard / full hoof of quadrupeds
– nkodia / kodia : snail shell, symbol of the Kongo law, fetish, talisman
– nkodila : strengthening, hardening / hostage released to report the capture of others
– nkofi : rifle butt / cabbage plant
– nkoka : drop, fall, regression, decline / opposition, constraint / executioner / noose, snare
– nkoki : hook / pulling, pulling rope, pulling cable / the one who pulls
– nkoki : ordinance or law published at sunset when everyone is in the village
– nkokia : hook, boathook, gaff
– nkokila : evening / action of pulling, trail, marks of car wheels
– nkokila : heap of grass or various debris carried by the current / debris piled up to be burned
– nkoko : water, watercourse, stream, river, rapid / soot, burnt herbs, burnt grass / bark, cocoon
– nkoko : long and straight trumpet / large wooden drum / pack donkey / fish species
– nkoko : tree that has fallen across the path or watercourse and can serve as a bridge
– nkokolo : tree trunk thrown over the water to serve as a footbridge, ford / overturned palm tree
– nkokolo : size of drum, size of musical instrument / guitar / elbow
– nkokona : manipulation, handling
– nkokoni : people manipulator, influencer
– nkokoto : thrifty person, miserly person, stingy person
– nkola : person who acts with haste, person who works without resting
– nkola : strength, firmness / drunkenness / intoxicating drink / missed gunshot
– nkolami / munkolami : disobedient, rebellious, insubordinate or recalcitrant person
– nkole / nkolo : prisoner, hostage, slave
– nkolo : tiredness, fatigue, weariness, desire to give up / satiety / drunkenness / great swelling
– nkolo (makolo) : dog tooth used as an amulet
– nkoma : writings, comment
– nkombi : sweeper
– nkombo : error, mistake / grand chief, great leader / one star / rifle with extended barrel / goat
– nkombola : sweeping
– nkome : fist, punch
– nkomono : constraint
– nkonda : hunting without a dog, hunting with a weapon other than a rifle
– nkondi : hunter without a dog, hunter using a weapon other than a rifle
– nkondi : alliance, agreement, convention / fetish which causes illness / which is lustful
– nkondi : alliance, agreement, convention, confirmation / hunter
– nkondo : law, regulation, ordinance, decree / defence, prohibition / convention, agreement
– nkondo : dog-free hunting, hunting without a dog / sinuosity, bend, curve, winding, twisty, turn
– nkondukisa : tortuous path, twisty path, sinuous path, winding path
– nkonduluka : rest of a harvest, last fruits / sinuosity, tortuousness
– nkonduzuka : turn, contour / meander, zigzag, sharp bend
– nkongi : textile fibres, pineapple threads
– nkongo / mukongo : member of an ethnic group from the Kongo kingdom
– nkongo : great hunter, dexterous marksman / accuracy of shooting, marksmanship / honesty
– nkongo : slave / Kongolese / who is from the same womb, kinship, ancestor, family, origin
– nkongolo : size of an animal / fence, enclosure, barrier, circumference, edge
– nkongolo / lukongolo : rainbow
– nkongudidi / munkongudidi : judge, person in charge of investigating a case
– nkonki : old chief, tribal chief / kind of small wooden drum / thumb
– nkonko : cape, headland, peninsula / kind of small wooden drum / bed made of bamboo
– nkonso : disability of the joint after a dislocation
– nkonta : thought, opinion, feeling, certainty, something certain / joint estate
– nkonzi / mukonzi / nkoko : hollow tree trunk on which you hit to report an event
– nkonzo : strength, vigor, energy / division, part, band, crowd / side
– nkonzo : abscess, swelling, spot, pimple / parasitic shoot on the tree
– nkonzo / nkonso : elderly person very sensitive to the cold who always needs to warm up
– nkosi : felt, striped carpet, tiger rug / lion / louse / blowfly, bluebottle
– nkoto : valley, defile / entrance / headland, cape, corner / canvas, canvas fabric, bag fabric
– nkoto : tuft of braided hair on the forehead as an ornament/ cock crest, rooster crest
– nkotolo : access, admission, admittance, entry, entrance, entrance path, portal / introduction
– nkovi : elephant trunk / cabbage leaf, manioc leaf, cassava leaf
– nkoyi : hook, fish hook, fork, gaff, boathook / pole used to put a dog on the leash
– nkoyi / nkoyo : market day
– nkua : person who owns, who possesses, who holds, who is in possession of something
– nkua : endowed with, described as, qualified as, defined as, the one who is, the one who has
– nkua : nearest, neighbour, friend, comrade, colleague, fellow, companion, acquaintance
– nkua : edge, bank, shore / ball, ball to play / ball game
– nkuafila : bettor, punter, backer
– nkuafula : wicker rod, wicker cane, wicker switch
– nkuaka : rattle, child’s toy / saw / haste / action of pushing the ball
– nkuakani / nkuala-nkuala : speed, haste
– nkuakasa : great height, big tallness / tall person, giant
– nkuaku : rattan, rattan rod, rattan stick / length / liana
– nkuakua : transverse or longitudinal bar of a bed / joist, bridging joist, bearing joist / axle, pin
– nkuamina : perseverance, fidelity
– nkuamu : duration, persistence, continuation
– nkuamusu : worry, torment, hassle
– nkuanana : stripe, mark / scraper, raker / whistle
– nkuanda : kind of dance / localized famine / tonsure with lines and edges
– nkuanga : height gauge / laceration made with nails / action of scratching or grating
– nkuangi / nkuanga : small drum / kind of dance / cutter, pruner
– nkuangila : great length or height / trees cut into logs placed in a pile to dry
– nkuangu : height gauge / water / drop, half, half pitcher / carnation / block, last, pulley
– nkuanunu : slight scratch
– nkuanza : haste, vivacity, liveliness / wooden screw, something twisted
– nkuasa : rope, string, big rope / cable
– nkuasiki : scratch, scratching, graze
– nkuba : thrashing, beating, caning, physical violence / misfortune, bad luck, calamity
– nkuba : bundle, bale, package / roll of mats / weekly market
– nkubamanu : preparation, organization
– nkubi : strong odour given off by the flowers of certain plants or by the civet cat
– nkubi : bag, pouch / musk, bad body smell / stench
– nkubila : contribution / stumble
– nkubu : very early cock crow, very early rooster crow / equality, identity, coincidence
– nkubukulu : preparation, organization, project, plan
– nkudi : mouthful, sip / rope, line, big cord / redeemer / someone who is growing up
– nkudulu : evolution, development, growth, way of growing
– nkuelolo / nkuelulu : wedding, act of getting married
– nkuendolo : gait, pace
– nkuengola : circle, round, roundness
– nkueni : not maturity, non-ripeness, quality of what is unripe
– nkuenia : anger / desire for something / wild animal / rawness, raw vegetables, unripe fruit
– nkuenia : something that screams, something that squeaks, sand
– nkuenia / nkuese : grinding, sand and earth with food in the mouth
– nkuenko : edge / who charges exorbitant prices
– nkuenkuna : slander, tendency to slander, predisposition to slander
– nkueno : other, other people, your neighbour, your equal, your friend
– nkuenzi-nkuenzi : who desires ardently / who is impatient
– nkuezo : gum, rubber / eraser, rubber ball, something elastic
– nkufi : short, small, little, brevity / clapping hands, greeting / lock of hair
– nkufukulu : abridgement, abstract, summary
– nkuika : constraint
– nkuimba : purring, buzzing, humming, grunting, growling
– nkuimbi : downpour, sudden shower / friction primer that buzzes loudly / leopard roar
– nkuimu : flame
– nkuiti : friction primer, friction drum / size / herd of wild boars
– nkuizulu : coming, arrival
– nkuka : bush path, game path / deluge, flood / watercourse, stream, river
– nkukami : stutterer
– nkukuila : bed of a torrent, channel, rivulet, trace of tears
– nkukula : which flows while carrying with itself, which overflows / current of a river, torrent
– nkukulu : chief, king / big thing, difficult thing, embarrassing thing / edge of an object
– nkukumi : someone who stutters, someone who mumbles, someone who mutters
– nkukusi : roughness, unevenness
– nkukutu : hardness / sickly state, illness
– nkula : age / growth / who is chased out, who is dismissed, who is exiled / big lobster pot
– nkula : atonement, redemption / what is paid for redemption / impulse, accelerated walking
– nkula : red ointment made with the red wood of a tree / red oil to anoint or grease
– nkulu : elder, ancestor, seniority attribute / corpse / quantity, abundance, importance
– nkulua : redemption, atonement / expulsion
– nkuluki / nkuludi : loss in trade
– nkuluntu : elder, superior, chief, leader
– nkuma : what is slippery / trembling, jostling, bumping, collision, action of pushing against
– nkuma : action of cutting someone off, a word one has on the tip of one’s tongue
– nkuma : location in a palm tree where we practice the notches to extract palm wine
– nkuma : hunting, pursuit / parable, proverb / surprise / strength, energy, power
– nkumba : padlock / navel, umbilicus
– nkumbi : pause, momentary silence / deception / slanderer / leopard howl
– nkumbi : drum used for bloody sacrifices / swarm of winged termites
– nkumbi : viceroy, sub-chief, vassal, governor, ambassador, prefect / miracle, prodigy
– nkumbi : elderly person who knows the habits and customs of a country
– nkumbi : fetter, yoke
– nkumbidila : watercourse, rapid, torrent
– nkumbila : tremendous noise / main road, public road / flood, heavy pouring rain
– nkumbu : name, patronymic, designation / word / multiplying factor, repetition factor
– nkumisi (bakumisi) : supporter, fan
– nkumpa : young girl
– nkumpi : manager, leader
– nkumu : customary chief, chief, authority
– nkuna : sprog, offspring / cutting, young shoot
– nkunda : residence, home, interior / moderate height, mountain / small quantity, small amount
– nkunda : homage, tribute, ovation / rope, cord / planting of banana shoots
– nkunda : solid wood, log that burns when the small pieces of wood are already consumed
– nkundi (bakundi) : friend, pal, mate, comrade, fellow man, neighbour
– nkunga : song, singing
– nkunku : mastery, ability, skill / leaven, ferment, palm wine dregs, palm wine insect
– nkunku : neighborhood / wood surrounding the village, unburned grass
– nkunku : falcon, hawk, sparrowhawk / hen, chicken
– nkunzi : chief, boss
– nkunzu : raw, unripe, young
– nkusi : painter / fart, flatulence, belch, burp
– nkuta : fear, terror / food supplies
– nkutakani : gathering, grouping
– nkuti : crowd, band, mass / what is tied, what is bound together / species of manioc
– nkutu : bag, handbag, saddlebag, purse / savannah, meadow, grassland / besides, anyway
– nkuwu : carpet, large blanket / sign of legal authority / smell of urine, urine odor
– nkuya / nkuyu : spirit of a deceased, shadow of a dead person, phantom, ghost / elf, hobgoblin
