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
– ngabuki : medicine specialist
– ngadami / ngadumu : cowrie shell
– ngadi : joy
– ngadielo : shepherdess, herdsman, shepherd
– ngafi : who acts with vigour, with power or perseverance / deceitful, scoundrel
– ngakazi / ngakikisa : feeling of fear, shuddering
– ngakina : bitterness
– ngakisina : capitalist
– ngaku : source of fertility, hiding place for treasures
– ngala / ngali : railway station
– ngalasisi : exercise, training
– ngaluka / ngaluluka : heat wave, scorching heat, burning heat, white heat
– ngama : anger, irritation / sour palm wine, acid palm wine / monkey
– ngamavia : agricultural specialist
– ngamba / ngambu : : domestic, servant, porter, worker, labourer
– ngamba : food prepared to feed those who helped to plow a field
– ngamba : gift reserved for those who helped to plow a field, tip
– ngamboma : commander of a military base
– ngambu : bank, side / fainting, syncope, fainting fit, swoon
– ngambula : tourbillon, whirlwind, swirl, maelström
– ngami : flood, overflow / chief
– ngamu : 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 : scientist, scholar, person capable of inventing, who is gifted for research
– nganga : expert, connoisseur, specialist, marabout, person who practices the occult sciences
– 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 : insight, cunning, trick, ability, gift, talent
– ngangu : action of creating, designing, creative intelligence
– ngangu : intelligence
– ngangula : blacksmith, locksmith, metal worker / craftsman / mutilating action
– 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, shine, gloss
– ngeziki : engineer
– ngiambila : chat, talk, conversation, interview, dialogue
– ngiangi : disobedient / rascal, knave, scoundrel, deceitful, deceiver, 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
– ngiembo / niembo : good fortune, happiness, felicity
– ngiemo : who is suckling, newborn
– ngienda : departure
– ngika : addition, supplement / reinforcement beam
– ngikakana : meeting, gathering
– ngikani : conjuration, conspiracy
– ngikila : addition, attribute / tendency to want or demand more
– ngindu : idea, thought, reflection, opinion
– nginga : grain, seed / great war
– ngingi : pulse, agitation, restlessness, worry, anxiety / firmness, solidity, immobility
– ngingima : greatness of the precipice, greatness of the abyss / monster, fabulous animal
– ngingu : understanding, agreement, convention, association, federation / border, moderation
– ngionzakana : assembly, gathering
– ngionzoko / ngionzokolo : piling up, harvest / association, grouping
– ngionzokolo : association, grouping
– ngisu : attribute of rawness, freshness, non-cooking or greenery
– ngita / ngitamu : battle, war, revolt, riot, uprising
– 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, attribute of gratuity
– 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 : moon, month, menses
– ngongi : percussion instrument composed of two bells without clappers
– ngongo : energetic refusal, contrary to one’s will, opposition / fear, fright, anguish, anxiety
– ngongofi : tickling
– ngoni : sweetness of wine
– ngoto : raffia fabric, raffia fibre, raffia bag
– ngovo : free
– ngubi : crook, trickster, thief
– ngudi : mother, foundation, major, essential, real, genuine, veritable
– ngudi : interior, middle, heart, core / truth / clod of earth
– ngudiata : speak-true, truth
– ngulu : pig, stowaway in the luggage of a real passenger
– ngulunga : pain
– ngulu-ngulu : without precautions, without mistrust, headlong
– ngulupa : group, troop, herd
– ngumbila : thunderstorm, storm
– nguna : whiteness of a cloth
– ngunda : desire, craving, thirst, envy, search of pleasure, lust / sorrow, hardship
– ngunda : intent, intention, thought, mind, idea, hope / refuge, exile, asylum
– ngunda-ngunda : force, strength, tyranny
– ngunga : bell, ringing, o’clock
– 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, outrage, contempt, 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 : spades, card game
– ngwisanesa : action for reconciliation, making up
– ngwiya : guide, compass
– ngwizani : agreement, reconciliation, rapprochement, cooperation
– 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
– niembe : edge of a hat, hat rim
– nienze / nienzi / nienzu : enjoyment, joy, satisfaction, contentment / pleasure, well-being
– nienga : multitude / cruelty
– nienge : sand
– niengula : field ploughed after the fire has burned the grass
– nienzi / nienzu : enjoyment, good feeling, good taste, joy, satisfaction, pleasure, well-being
– niese / nniese : joy, fun, amusement / pleasure in eating little at a time / delicacy of execution
– nihimbi : deep universe, space night
– niku-niku : ontinuous shaking / stirring-up, commotion, hubbub, loud noise, great fuss
– 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 complacency / avarice, greed, parsimony
– nionio : a little bit, a little / someone who gives a little
– niosa : grease that shines on the face
– nioto-nioto : dirt
– nitu : body
– nivo : level
– nkaba : sharing, gift, donation, abundance / piece of cassava
– nkabu : medicine mixed with salt / gift, gratification / share / failure, negligence
– nkabu : indelicacy, effrontery, boldness, audacity, indiscretion, person who has those defects
– nkabu : courage, fearlessness, recklessness, manliness, virility, resistance, opposition
– nkabu : person who is brought to
– nkabulu : alms, gift / division
– nkabunu : split, schism, separation / party, party
– nkada : bitterness, bitterness, acridness, harshness, dryness / good taste of what is dry
– nkadi : bitterness, dryness, taste of something dry / dirty, 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 / behaviour, way of being / fate
– nkadulu : shape, way, manner, appearance, air / existence, quality, state / position, situation
– nkadu : handle
– nkafi : paddle, oar, rowing
– nkafi / nkafu / nkafuku : anger, indignation, irritation
– nkafuna : blow
– nkafunga : choleric person, susceptible person, irritable person / anger, irritation
– nkaka : other, alternative / grandparent, ancestor, grandfather (grandmother)
– nkaka : law, decree, rule / alliance / rapidity / complete piece, the entirety of a whole
– nkaka : field plowed after bush fire, field with picked grasses
– nkakala : irregularity, asperity, roughness / imparity, singularity / species of tree
– nkakilingi : barricade
– nkaku : obstacle, barrier, shield, fence, impediment, obstruction / curtain, jealousy
– nkaku : obstacle, dam, opposition
– nkakudulu : something that prevents / opposition, resistance / brake, stop
– nkakumusu : prevention, obstruction, impediment, obstruction
– nkala : flower bed, clod of earth intended for the cultivation of plants / grave mound / crab
– nkala : flowerbed, clod of soil intended for plant cultivation / crab
– nkala : sterile man, barren man / lime / heel
– nkalasani : relationship
– nkalete : first cock crow, first crowing of the rooster
– nkama : one hundred / dam on a watercourse dam, dyke
– nkamba : tranquility, calm that can be disturbed, peace, good weather / kind of big bowl
– nkamba : amulets that a woman puts around her neck to protect herself or to heal
– nkamu : sudden death / kind of weed
– nkana : red anger
– nkananga : who intends to hurt
– nkanda : book, booklet, letter, mail / metal blade / skin, leather, hide
– nkandi : shell or stone of the palm nut
– nkandu : law, rule, decree / forbidden period / small drum / thickness, density, firmness
– nkandu : honour, respect, person who inspires respect, imposing person / trap
– nkandukulu : defence, prohibition / medicine
– nkangala : walk, tour, excursion, travel, journey, way of traveling / visit
– nkangalu : travel, society, camaraderie, visit that we do
– nkangani : entanglement
– nkangu : people, population, community, crowd, mass, partisans, supporters, army
– nkangu : light, indigenous lamp, native lamp / purchase or payment without trial
– nkangu : arrangement, agreement, contract, alliance, commitment / subject, slave, serf
– nkangu : burial, protective shroud / amulet worn as bracelet
– nkangua : arrangement
– nkangulu : travel, journey) / meal / loop, buckle, clip, 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, character of what is pleasant or delightful
– nkania : rough stone used to scrape the skin
– nkanikina : injunction, obligation, precept
– nkanikinu : promise / oath of loyalty, order, summons, warning
– nkani-nkani : intention, intent
– nkanka : mouthful, bite / share of the dowry reserved for the father or both parents of the girl
– nkanka : threat, threatening gesture / faith, trust, assurance, fidelity, loyalty, religion
– nkanka : kindness, great kindness, great dedication / selflessness, spirit of sacrifice
– nkanka : small slit through which the palm wine flows
– nkankala : fence made from palm branch with braided leaves
– nkanu : litigation, offense, misdemeanor, crime, accusation, summons, citation, trial, sentence
– nkanu : decision, resolution / fold, path, furrow, wrinkle, ride
– nkanunu : advice
– nkanzi : large island / valley / unburned bush grass / very old barrel, very old pitcher / cotton
– nkasa : truth-detecting potion becoming poison in case of lies, anti-sorcerer potion
– nkasi : strap, belt, leather strap / middle / cruel decision
– nkasila : mouthful of food chewed
– nkasu : strength, vigor / strong drink / harsh words / sudden death
– nkasu : quality of what is big and fat
– nkasudulu : something that cuts hunger, that dissipates thirst or that gives strength
– nkata : winding of fabric or sheets serving as a cushion for load carried on the head
– nkata : padding obtained by winding a fabric and used to deaden a load carried on the head
– nkata : seat formed by crossing the thighs to accommodate a child
– nkatika : real, really, quite, entirely, par excellence
– nkatu : thickness, resistance, firmness / strong pain / bitter taste
– nkatu : no, negative, nothing, emptiness void, zero
– nkatukulu : withdrawal, retreat, retirement, departure
– nkatulu : what is taken, what is removed, what is taken away
– nkatu-nkatu : strength, energy, power / stinging 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, rattan palm stick, rotang liana, rattan vine
– nkawa / nkawu : warning, alarm signal, call for the dog to hunt
– nkawa : stick, rattan cane / warning, alarm signal / emissary, envoy, ambassador
– nkayi : paddle
– nkayilu : gift, donation, present, sacrifice
– nke / nkeke : little
– nkefu / nkefo / (di)kefo : strong smell, bad smell, stench, cadaveric smell
– nkefu / nkefua : gas, emanation, scent, fragrance, smell
– nkefua / (ki)kefo : spicy flavour, pungent flavour, acrid flavour, burning flavour
– nkeka : child in the cradle, baby, small child
– nkeka : incision made on the palm tree to draw out the wine
– nkeki : back, loins, side of a palm leaf
– nkeko : edge / awakened desire, provoked desire, lust, 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, crate, chest
– nkelo : water source, fountain, tap / funnel
– nkema : feeling of something abominable or terrible/appalling
– nkembi : bell, wooden doorbell for hunting dogs, wooden swing bell for hunting dogs
– nkembo : glory, rejoicing
– nkembolo : celebration, rejoicing, festivities, commemoration, praise
– nkemi / nkeme / nkemo : cruelty, wickedness, harshness of the heart, violence, rage, desire to kill
– nkemuki : reserve, discretion
– nkenda : pity, compassion
– nkendi : gossip, chatter
– 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
– nkengi / mukengi : supervisor, guard, security officer
– nkeni : seed, grain, pod / cup
– nkenka : crampon / a little
– nke-nke : tiny, minuscule
– nkenkinia : cadaveric odour, cadaverous smell
– nkento : female, woman, wife
– nkenza : person who chatters non-stop, person who talks constantly
– nkenzengele : knot, kneecap, ball joint
– nkesi : anger, wrath, bitterness, indignation, cause of revolt
– nkete : skilled person, skilful person, person who does his job well / craftsman, worker
– nkete : beneficent person, generous person, compassionate person
– nkewa : accessory that is placed around the waist to climb in a palm tree
– nkiadi : burst of laughter, contempt / drawing on a carpet
– nkiaka / nkiakasa : laugh
– nkiakasa / nkiakata / nkiakatala : bad smell
– nkiama : rainbow
– nkianza : pride / rat species
– nkianzuka : hope, arrangement
– nkiata : order, ordinance, arrangement
– nkiela : daylight, fine weather
– nkielo : thinning, lightening, daylight, dawn / beginning of the dry season
– nkielo : fruit picking / fountain, funnel made with a calabash
– nkiengie : 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
– nkimba : secret society, person initiated to mysteries, enchanter
– nkimbu : strength, energy, vigor / latrines / small cooking pot
– nkinda : tie, string, cord / encouragement gift / vigor, 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 or firmness
– nkindu : brawl, quarrel, revolt, popular uprising, din, uproar, tumult / war, battle
– nkindu : sound of walking, sound of paws, sound of footsteps / the one who piles 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 : prohibittion, law, defense / convention, regulation / heap, mass, crowd / neck
– nkingu : stick used to stretch straws to braid the mats
– nkinia : contempt, disdain, willingness to quarrel, abusive speech / provocation, threat
– nkinia : praise, exaltation, joy, rejoicing
– nkinka : part of something, unfilled container
– nkinki / kunku : share, part, fraction
– 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
– nkodia / kodia : snail shell, symbol of the Kongo law, fetish, talisman
– nkofi : rifle butt / cabbage plant
– nkoka : drop, fall, regression, decline / opposition, coercion / executioner / shoelace
– 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
– nkongolo / lukongolo : rainbow
– nkongudidi / munkongudidi : judge, person responsible for investigating a case
– nkonki : old chief, tribal chief / kind of small wooden drum / thumb
– nkonko : cape, peninsula / kind of small wooden drum / bed made of bamboo
– nkonso : infirmity of the joint after a dislocation
– nkonta : thought, opinion, feeling, certainty / community of goods of something
– 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, parade / entrance / land point, cape, corner / canvas, canvas fabric, bag fabric
– nkoto : tuft of braided hair on the forehead as an ornament/ cock crest, rooster crest
– nkotolo : access, entry, entrance, entrance path, portal / introduction
– nkovi : elephant trunk / cabbage leaf, manioc leaf
– 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
– nkuaka : rattle, child’s toy / saw / haste / action of pushing the ball
– nkuakani / nkuala-nkuala : speed, haste
– nkuakasa : great height / tall person, giant
– 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
– nkuangi / nkuanga : small drum / kind of dance / cutter
– nkuangila : great length or height / trees cut into logs placed in a pile to dry
– 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 / stroke of misfortune, calamity
– nkuba : bundle, bale, package / roll of mats / bag, pocket / weekly market
– nkubamanu : preparation, organization
– nkubi : strong smell given off by flowering trees / musk, bad smell from the body / stench
– nkubila : contribution
– nkubu : very early cock crow, very early rooster crow / equality, identity, coincidence
– nkubukulu : preparation, organization, project, plan
– nkudi : sip / rope, line, big cord / redeemer / someone who is growing
– nkudulu : evolution, development, growth, way of growing
– 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 practices exorbitant prices, who charges exorbitant prices
– nkuenkuna : slander, disposition to slander
– nkueno : others, your neighbour, your equal, your friend
– nkuenzi-nkuenzi : who desires ardently / who is impatient
– nkuezo : gum, rubber / elastic thing
– nkufi : short, small, little, brevity / clapping hands, greeting / strand of hair, lock of hair
– nkufukulu : abridgement, abstract, summary
– nkuika : constraint
– nkuimu : flame
– nkuizulu : coming, arrival
– nkuka : bush path, game path / deluge, flood / watercourse, stream, river
– nkukami : stutterer
– nkukula : which flows while carrying with itself, which overflows on / current of a river, torrent
– nkukulu : chief, king / big thing, difficult thing, embarrassing thing / edge of an object
– nkukumi : someone who stutters, someone who babbles, someone who stammers
– nkukusi : roughness, inequality, 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 / 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 : house, residence, home, interior / moderate height / mountain / small quantity
– nkunda : homage, tribute, ovation / rope, cord / planting of banana shoots
– nkunda : solid wood, wood that burns when the small pieces of wood are already consumed
– nkundi (bakundi) : friend, pal, mate, comrade, fellow man, neighbour
– nkunga : song, singing
– 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, 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
