V.9. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS, PART 9/10 (nl-nze)
Note: The “/” sign in the word definition separates two definitions of the same word depending on how it is pronounced.
– nlaku : flame of fire, flame of bush fire, large flame
– nlaku : granary, barn / shed, work shelter / penchant, partiality, strong taste for
– nlalu : slowness, laziness / gentleness of character / species of plant used for washing
– nlambu : region, district, zone, area / track in the grass, track of trodden grass
– nlambu : lengthening, stretching in length / edge of a forest
– nlandu : retribution, continuation of something, consequence
– nlandu : person who cares about nothing / tranquility, stoicism, patience / laziness, softness
– nlangu : river, stream, watercourse
– nleke (baleke) : person younger than oneself
– nlembami : gentleness, humility
– nlembakani : person we can’t convince, invincible person
– nlemo : flame, flickering light, brilliance, brightness
– nlemvo : forgiveness
– nlendi : owner, powerful man, rich man / who is not obliging, who is not helpful, who is gruff
– nlendua: person who is about to be defeated
– nlenge : spring
– nlengi : flatterer / flatness, evenness, softness, prettiness, beauty / young girl
– nlengi-nlengi : softness to the touch, soft cloth, soft fabric / tree species
– nlengizia : tiredness, fatigue, lethargy, flabbiness / who is over-satiated / feeling of fat
– nlengizia : strips of different width and color
– nlengo : hypocrite / funnel made with a leaf / leopard
– nlenzo : offense, desire to denigrate others, desire not to honor others
– nlevo : mockery, insolence, impertinence, insult / person who has been made fun of / slanderer
– nlevudi : person who makes fun, mocker
– nleya : tall person
– nlezimi : which sparkles, which glitters
– nlinzi / nlungi : plaintive crying, lamentations, cries of distress, sobs
– nloba : trace of blood / small rain / species of rat
– nloki / muloki : sorcerer
– nloko : bewitchment, curse / prison
– nloko : who confides in someone, who puts themselves under their protection
– nlokosi / nlokoso : someone who stutters
– nlokoso : length
– nlokusi : joke
– nlola : affectionate nickname for a married woman / lymphatic gland
– nlolo : brawl, fist fight / loud cry of joy / line, trace / sentence
– nloloko : forgiveness
– nlomba : ossuary / species of long banana
– nlonga (milonga) : line, row, list, queue
– nlongi : teacher, professor, monitor
– nlongo : the sacred, the interdict, taboo, something holy / remedy, poison, fetish
– nlongoki : pupil, student, apprentice, disciple
– nluangu : kind of long and very fast canoe
– nluazi : wine drawer
– nluba : cunning man
– nludi : heap of herbs, heap of leaves / first to fight / roof
– nluengi : intelligent person, clever person, skillful person, shrewd person, cunning person
– nluengisi : counsellor, advisor
– nluka : hole, depression, cave / stone mine / river hollow, fish mine / spring, source
– nlula : anger, fury, rage, bitterness / desire to fight, eagerness to go into battle
– nlumi : married person, legitimate husband, man / man’s genitals
– nlunda : top of a mountain / ridge, crest, comb / cock, rooster
– nlundu : cavity dug to house the puppies
– nlunga : degree of initiation
– nlungi : perfect person / winner / guardian, cowherd, protector / pirogue, dugout, canoe
– nlungi : plaintive crying, lamentations, cries of distress, sobs
– nlungu : pirogue
– nluta : profit, gain, surplus, excess
– nnanga : slave
– nnangu : mountain, high relief
– nnenia / nnienia : solar ray, glare, shine, reflection, lightning / meteor, comet, shooting star
– nnienge / nniengese : sand, sandbank
– nnienge-nnienge : tall man who has a good appearance
– nniengisi : founder, ironmaker, ironmaster
– nnienia : radiance, glare, shine, reflection, lightning, solar ray / meteor, comet, shooting star
– nnienia : what has ripened poorly, what is young, weak, frail or fragile / poorly ripened peanuts
– nnietiki : printer, press worker
– nningu : resonating sound, quivering, moaning, snoring, whistling
– nningu : melody, music tune, song, singing
– nniuki : indiscretion, impertinence, tendency to make fun of people or throw oneself upon them
– nnongi : messenger who fulfills his mission despite all obstacles / reel, bobbin, spool
– nnonzika / nnonzingila / nnonzingina : rest of a village, rest of a people, a few, some
– nnua : mouth, orifice
– nodi : North
– nomba : number
– notika (manotika) : point, spot, dot, line, mark, punctuation mark
– nsa : suite, company, assembly, church, sect / species, kind, look, appearance, way of being
– nsa : poison, venom, sap / sensitivity, anger / species of medicinal shrub
– nsa : sourness, tartness, bitterness / times, repetition unit, multiplication factor
– nsaba : garden, plantation
– nsabingini : disorder, malfunctioning, disruption
– nsabu : right of way, right of pontoonage, toll / insult, someone who insults
– nsabudi : ferryman, ferrywoman, smuggler
– nsabuka : ford, passage, crossing
– nsadi : worker, employee / love of work, activity / service, work
– nsadi : pride, contempt, horror, presumption, insolence, vanity, haughtiness, arrogance
– nsadidi : agent, someone who works for others / assistance, aid, help
– nsadila /nsadidila : rest, debris, food leftovers, scraps / remainder in arithmetic
– nsadila : service, work / width / odd number, unparalleled number, unique number
– nsadisa : agent, someone who helps / assistance, aid, help
– nsadisa : odd number, unparalleled number, unique number / remainder, debris / net profit
– nsadisi : support, tutor, benefactor, healer
– nsafudi (basafudi) : descendant
– nsaka : game
– nsakala : percussion instrument in the shape of a rattle, maracas, a kind of rattle
– nsakasa : bellows / boar, male
– nsakata : quarrelsome tendency, contempt / insolence
– nsaki : game, joy / clapping of hands at games or to greet / rifle wand
– nsakila : approval, acknowledgement, thanks / extremity, end, river edge / loud cry, alarm cry
– nsaku : bag / footpath, road, path, way, track / pointed and sharp stake
– nsala : opening of a cooking pot / inner edge of a vase or a pit
– nsala : life, principle of life, inner and hidden life / bird feathers
– nsalasani : mutual aid, solidarity, collaboration, cooperation
– nsalu : field ploughed and left fallow, field abandoned after harvest, wasteland, fallow
– nsamba : tattoo, scarification
– nsambi : portable xylophone, organ, harmonica, zither / wide path, main road
– nsambi / nsambidi : beggar, supplicant, person who prays, person who begs, worshipper
– nsambila : the one who prays, the one who begs / prayer
– nsambila : small basket that we carry on our head
– nsambodia / nsambuadi : seven
– nsambu : hair with parting / path, path trodden in the grass / edge of a cloth
– nsambu : favor, grace, charity, sympathy / prayer, invocation / blessing, good luck
– nsambu : command, invitation, exhortation / cry of a bird, croaking / contagion
– nsambudi : locksmith / blacksmith
– nsambudulu : prayer, invocation
– nsambuka : passage for men or animals / wooded oasis, grove
– nsambuki : who is blessed, the blessed
– nsambukila : contagiousness
– nsambulu : prayer, supplication, religion
– nsampa : hut / newspaper
– nsampi : salutation, greeting of someone, greeting from someone
– nsampu : single, person without children / contagiousness
– nsampukisi : contaminator, communicator, transmitter
– nsampulusi : liberator
– nsamu : message, news, narrative, communication, announcement, report, story, tale, legend
– nsamu : invitation to a big party, invitation to a big feast / seven
– nsamu : message, statement, news, business
– nsanda : torn clothes, rags, rags / fringe of fabric / large very branchy tree
– nsanda / mulemba : security service
– nsanduka : development
– nsanga : necklace / shoot, offshoot, progeny, new generation
– nsanga : excommunication, curse, bewitchment / gulet (bottleneck) at the entrance of a trap
– nsanga : reason, motif, dispute, litigation / flag
– nsangi : mixer / mixture / fish species
– nsangu : news, story, narrative, information, communication / seed, flower with seeds
– nsansakana : inconstancy, instability
– nsansi : education, educator / kind of rattle / tip of the tail of rattlesnakes
– nsanza / nsanzala : mouthpiece of a trumpet, funnel, bell or object of this shape
– nsanzala : attribute of freedom / freedom, independence / village
– nsanzala : village / accommodation, shelter for the workers / granary, attic, reserve
– nsanzi : pillager, plunderer, thief, pilferer / bragging, envy, jealousy / musical instrument
– nsapa : greenery shack / contagious disease
– nsasa : meaning, definition, expression, declaration, proclamation / the essential, the content
– nsasa : cutting up / strident sound, violent sound, loud voice, cry of distress / hunting whistle
– nsasa : slag, scoria, scum of something melted / bag of salt / species of banana
– nsasa : fertilizer, manure, dung, guano, refuse, rubbish, garbage, rot, excrement / sculpture
– nsasilu : explanation
– nsatu : hunger, famine, desire
– nsava : narrative, story, tale, legend, enigma, image / germ, button / very large calabash
– nsavu : germ, bud / young branch, young shoot / squash, pumpkin
– nsavukila : germ, button, bud
– nsaya / nsayi : joy, cheerfulness, contentment / mocking laughter
– nsedia : newborn child, udder-fed child, breast-fed child
– nseka : shallow depth of the water / residue of what has been filtered
– nseke : before, distance, upper waters, upstream side, remoteness / shore, coast, edge
– nseke : savannah, meadow, mainland, high land, countryside
– nseke-nseke : fear, fright, consternation that causes urinary or fecal incontinence
– nseki : person who starts a song, lead singer / composer of a song
– nseki : introduction, preface, front, head
– nseki-nseki : earth or red stone
– nseko : edge, shore, border, side / bank, embankment / bathroom built apart
– nseko : piece of wood or tree trunk used to make pig stables
– nseko / nsekolo : translation, transfer from one container to another, what is thus transferred
– nsekudi / nsekula : translator, interpreter / palm wine drawer
– nsele : rocks, rocky regions / fringe / strip of fabric applied to a fabric on the hips
– nsembo / nsembolo : reproach, threat, insults / provocation, harassment, annoyance
– nsemi : creator
– nsende : thornbush, prickle, fish bone
– nsendo : reward, gratification, wage, salary, pay
– nsengi : spy, observer, inspector, supervisor, overseer / upper part of a palm batten
– nsengila : metal
– nsenzebe : place covered with sand
– nsenzebele : stone place, slate, stone shelf
– nsenzele : rock, layer of stones, rocky place
– nsevokoso : joke, word for laughter
– nsezima : lightning
– nsi : country, homeland, earth, ground / down, under, below
– nsiala / nsiaki / nsala : applause, clapping of hands
– nsibu : incantatory formula, incantation
– nsibundu : country federation
– nsidukulu : consecration, inauguration of a house dedicated to God or occultism
– nsiekolo : threshold
– nsielo : side / state of what is slippery
– nsiemo : lightning / species of tree
– nsiene : light beam, light ray
– nsienene : which is slippery, which is sticky
– nsienika : irradiation, radiation
– nsikila : support
– nsikinianga : patience
– nsikisila : temptation, deceit, deception
– nsiku : law, regulation, ordinance, rule, prohibition / protection, support, amulet / relic
– nsikudukusu : order, summons, warning / penal code, regulatory code, laws
– nsikulu / nsikulua : stake, support / stool, small bench, cushion, leg support
– nsikumusu : awakening, awareness, waking
– nsilu : end, extremity, edge, border, limit / conclusion, consequence, result
– nsilu : foundation, base, something safe, something very solid / amulet, small fetish cone
– nsilu : promise / rules, stipulation / scissors to chisel the teeth
– nsilulu : promise, prophecy / channel around a house
– nsima : piece of bread, bite of a cassava cake
– nsima : piece, bite, mouthful
– nsimbudi : stiffness
– nsimbulu : handle, grip, neck / root, climbing plant / name of a snake
– nsimbusu : first food or first dish for a new groom
– nsime / nsimi : ability to remember something / sagacity, great intelligence
– nsi-mpiti : black earth, land of black people
– nsimpiti : person resembling a dwarf / pygmy
– nsina : command, ordinance / uniformity, monotony / whole, undivided
– nsina / nsina / nsinda / nsini : depth, what is deep / lower part
– nsinda : path, animal track / rut, river bed / substance
– nsindu / nsindulu : large round stone, nutcracker / polished stone used to crush grains
– nsindu : sound of footsteps, stepladder / paw / immobility
– nsinduku : pledge, gift given to the creditor when one does not pay immediately
– nsindukulu : going with, coming with, accompanying
– nsindusulu : incitement, instigation, influence, indoctrination
– nsinga : thread, rope, link
– nsingani : inertia, nonchalance, attitude tending to think that the other will do things for him
– nsingi : man suspected of witchcraft, man suspected of maleficence / wild cat
– nsingu : war, conflict, quarrel / dirt that remains stuck on the tip of the nose / neck, nape
– nsingulu : curse
– nsingusunu : promise
– nsinini : stiffness / stubbornness, hardening / dead fish floating on the water
– nsinsa : test, effort, attempt, experiment / a little, small quantity, small amount
– nsinsa : melody, singing measure, rythm, gesture
– nsinsikila / nsisikila : threat
– nsinsisa : researcher
– nsinunu : border
– nsinza : equality, parity, resemblance, proportion / mid-day / strain
– nsinzi : jealousy tinged with witchcraft / what makes the water hard, hardness of the water
– nsinzidi : sentry, supervisor, guard, attendant
– nsinzu : mid-day
– nsisani : cooperation, rotating solidarity system to finance members’ projects
– nsisani : competition
– nsisi : danger, fright, terror, dread, amazement / handle of a knife, handle of a hoe
– nsisi : terror, fright, fear, dread, something dangerous, imposing, crushing or frightening
– nsisi : plug, stopper, dowel used to fill up in joinery
– nsisi : obtuse end of a stake, pencil or any other sharp object
– nsisita : what is given to taste especially with regard to palm wine
– nsisikila : threat
– nsisila : speed, rapidity / father-in-law, stepfather
– nsisu : very offensive words spoken by a woman
– nsisuku : fear, dread, fright, terror
– nsisukulu : proximity / part located under the roof where the wood is kept
– nsita : poverty, destitution, pitiful state / obstinacy, stubbornness / excess of sth / follower
– nsita : anger, fury, maliciousness, hatred, barbarity, atrociousness, cruelty, violence, ferocity
– nsitu : bush, wood, forest, jungle / cleared field in the forest, cleaned field / selvage, selvedge
– nsiuka : morning
– nsivu : cleared field planted in April or at the end of the rainy season
– nsoba / nsobani : change by alternating each in turn, one after the other
– nsoba : mixture, combination of different things / what is higgledy-piggledy, what is in a mess
– nsobila : variation
– nsobo : clayey soil, mud, mire, silt / dirt, filth, muck, refuse, rubbish, garbage, rejects, waste
– nsobolo : change, transformation, mutation
– nsodi : bud, sucker of a seed, beak, clitoris
– nsofi : beauty / young / bouquet of tobacco leaves / acacia / bamboo palm fruit
– nsoki : jealousy illness, wickedness, malice / fasting / grief, sorrow, mourning
– nsokia : rifle stick / ear, spike, cob
– nsokila : game, joke / species of small tree
– nsoko : path, trail, track, way, passage / division, department, domain / bone marrow
– nsole : clearing, new cultivation / tree skate
– nsolo : merchandises for exchange, goods to exchange, properties for sale
– nsololo / nsodolo : choice, option, action of choosing, sorting, election, voting
– nsombe : young, immature, novice / orange palm worm
– nsona : orphan, widow or widow, lonely or isolated person / little boy, ward, war orphan
– nsona : one of the days of the week reserved for the market / feast day, public holiday
– nsongi / nsongidi : guide, the one who indicates, the one who gives direction
– nsongi : point, tip, prickle, sting, goad, thorn / palm wine drawer
– nsongila : means of presentation, means of introduction, recommendation
– nsongila : testimony, evidence, proof
– nsongo : pain / jealousy, envy / way of being, way of acting / serious illness, epidemic
– nsongo : bullet / copper
– nsongolo : demonstration, evidence, proof, example
– nsongololo : perturbation of body and mind / exhibition, revelation, manifestation
– nsongongo : perturbation of body and mind
– nsongoso : remark
– nsongula : integrity, honesty, rectitude, justice
– nsoni : shame, embarrassment, shyness, modesty / turpitude, dishonour
– nsoni : color of the mixture of palm oil with a reddish clay powder / grass
– nsoni / nsoniki : writer, scribe, the one who writes
– nsono /nsonono : writing
– nsononono : copy
– nsosa : research / thought, opinion, meaning
– nsoso : angle, corner, end / place, territory, sector, neighborhood, part of a village
– nsosolo : maintenance / sword
– nsowa / nsua : power, authorization
– nsua : approval, permission, license, right, power / sting, goad / poison / bar, stick
– nsua : freshness / what is fresh and recent, what has just been cooked / embryo, newborn
– nsualu : speed, speed, vivacity, haste, promptness, ease, lightness, flexibility
– nsuasuani : difference, distinction, diversity
– nsudi : smell, odour
– nsuebidi : secretary general
– nsuedi : attribute of youth, attribute of novelty
– nsueki : secret, mystery, arcane, concealment / secretary, the one who hides / fish species
– nsueki : share of property received by the husband’s family after the divorce
– nsuekila : gift, present
– nsuela : fastener, tie, belt, scarf, cloth strip that is tightened around the belly
– nsuela : large fish cone, wide mouth snare, trap with wide mouth
– nsuela : material compensation given to the mother who gives up her child for adoption
– nsuensue / nsuesue : newborn / unripe maize, unripe corn, freshness of a harvest
– nsuesu / nsuesua / nsuesue : freshness, youth, novelty, incomplete ripeness, non- ripeness
– nsuila : trap, ambush
– nsuka : end, boundary
– nsukami : poor, needy, person who is destitute
– nsukinina : delay / the continuation, what follows, what develops late
– nsukisila : end, conclusion, tip
– nsuku : abundance, size / plain, plateau, flat land, flat ground / strait, gulf, bay / cry, call
– nsukudulu : purification rite of a widower following the death of his or her spouse, washing
– nsukunu : finality, aim, objective
– nsukusunu : end, conclusion, outcome, ending, denouement
– nsula : horror, fright, fear, scare / authority, power / electric fish, electricity
– nsululu : diamond
– nsuma : coitus, copulation with a woman / who is standing and does not want to sit
– nsuma-nsuma : fear, fright
– nsumba : purchase, bribery / marsh, swamp, bog / syphilis, hematuria / cat-fish
– nsumba : steep, sheer, precipice / tambourine / bundle / animal that has not yet given birth
– nsumbi : buyer / tambourine / bundle / kind of dance / type of hernia
– nsumbidi : commercial agent, sales agent, buyer
– nsumbi-nsumbi : worry, restlessness
– nsumbisi : seller
– nsumbu : criticized use, bad habit towards others / value, advantage
– nsumbudi : person guilty of a crime, murderer
– nsumbuka : passage / pivot
– nsumbukua : stairs, staircase, step
– nsumbuzi : object used to carry out a crime, weapon of the crime
– nsumingi : young girl, young man
– nsumu : pointed stake, style, bradawl, bodkin / needle for weaving baskets
– nsumuka : transgression
– nsumuna : transgression / slight trace
– nsumu-nsumu : payment, fees
– nsuna : track hunting, trail hunting / tsetse fly
– nsuna-nsuna : extreme edge
– nsunda : profit, gain, surplus, excess / breech baby, premature baby
– nsundi : winner, laureate
– nsunga : pleasant smell, perfume, scent / half-filled handle pot
– nsunga : magic ring, braided straw bracelet, raffia fiber cord
– nsunga : piece of cloth, band of cloth / rattan ring in the groin of a pig
– nsunga : baobab fruit that can be used as a pipe / tobacco, pinch
– nsungi : season
– nsungu : worry, concern, preoccupation
– nsungula : mention, allusion, insult
– nsuni : piece of meat, flesh, muscle / sparrow
– nsunsa : game opposing two teams which consists in guessing the arm extended by the other
– nsunzudi : representative
– nsutu : uncircumcised man
– nsuza / nzuza : libertine, rake, debauched, lustful, (male) prostitute, seducer, seductress
– nta : act of saying
– ntadi : spectator, onlooker, viewer, observer, watcher, inspector, beholder
– ntadisi : demonstrator
– ntaku : step, pace, stride / distance attribute
– ntakudi : traitor
– ntalu : price, cost, amount, number, calculation
– ntama : past, precedence, long ago, far away
– ntambu : trap, ambush / tam-tam or accompanying drum
– ntambuisi : pilot, driver, leader
– ntami : person with a boastful gait, person who waddles while walking / sheaf, bunch, bundle
– ntampata : marsh, flooded wood
– ntanda : rubber, gum, rubber tire / rubber merchant / hemp flower
– ntanda : file, line, row / traditional xylophone, balafon
– ntandakani : tall and skinny person
– ntandala : range, distance between, extent
– ntandi : skinny person / fisherman
– ntandila : thinness, skinniness
– ntandu : thinness, skinniness, narrowness / fat, stoutness, corpulence / hostility, hatred, envy
– ntandu : upstream, top, height, summit, peak, upper part
– ntandu : hostility, envy / deserted steppe, plain, countryside
– ntanga : stem, spoke / ability to jump far / step / reading, calculation
– ntanga : state of not being completely full
– ntangi : pupil, student, reader, disciple / fugitive, runaway / bed, sleeping place, seat, furniture
– ntanginina : imitation, copy
– ntangisi : teacher, schoolteacher, schoolmaster
– ntangu : sun / time, moment, hour, period, epoch, occasion / watch, clock
– ntangu : amount, sum, number, reckoning
– ntangwa : sun, weather
– ntani / tani / tania : lead, tin
– ntani : protector
– ntania : clarity, reflection, glow
– ntanina : defence, means of defence
– ntanini : protector, defender / escort, savior, redeemer
– ntanu : group of five people, set of five elements, quintuple / fifth
– ntanunu : rescue, deliverance, redemption, salvation
– ntanta : bass trumpet / braces, shoulder straps / amulet in the form of a cord, ribbon
– ntanta : bag with various fetishes that we attach around the forehead as protection
– ntantadi : rust
– ntantala : country, neighborhood, surroundings
– ntantama / ntantami : stretchability, elasticity, which is extensible, which is elastic
– ntantu : enemy, adversary, antagonist / contradictor, opponent / stranger to the family
– ntantu : pity, mercy, clemency / concern, sorrow, grief, despair / pain, sadness / bridge
– ntantu : range, extent / distance between, shooting distance
– ntanza / ntanzala : range of a rifle, distance that an arrow can travel
– ntari : net stretched high up to catch birds
– ntasi : strength, vigour of a person, robustness / length of elapsed time / strap, belt, leather strap
– ntasi : narrative, story, tale / listleness, languor, burning desire, aspiration, yearning
– ntata : scream, cry, shout, call / edge, border / small bow
– ntatala : tar, liquid that adheres / gum, gluten, glue, resin / rancid
– ntatu : group of three people, set of three elements, trinity
– ntatu : split in two, separation / dissonance / game with the pieces of a gourd
– ntava : marsh, swamp, quagmire, mud / garden or marshy field / tobacco field
– ntawudi : boy, kid, child, little girl / valet, servant / slave
– ntawu-ntawu : field border, edge of a field
– nteba : vase, mud, silt, mud / paste / cassava root soaked and peeled then dried in the sun
– ntebe / nteke : brick clay, mud, mortar, clay, mud, mire
– ntebi : hairdresser
– ntebokila / ntebukila : spark of fire, sparkling spark
– ntebolo : tonsure, cut-off
– nteka : sale, selling, merchandise / descendant / species of fish
– nteke : mud, mortar
– nteki : seller, salesman, merchant
– ntekolo : sale, sales process, way of selling / grandson, granddaughter
– ntela : size in height, height, standing position / shooting ability, shooting skill, good shooter
– ntela : payment or pledge paid before the outcome of a trial, bet
– ntela : species of plant with mystical power that is used to search for a dead man
– ntela / ntelo : addition, surplus, supplement
– ntela-ntela : unstable, unattached, without a fixed home, who walks the streets
– ntele : strength, vigour to fight / call / little, small
– ntelo : addition, surplus, supplement
– ntemo : light, glow, glimmer
– ntempa : size or thickness of something
– ntempa : something large, something big
– ntempo : circle
– ntemua : education, civilization
– ntemvo : crowd, multitude
– ntenda / ntendani : buzzing, thunder / earache, ear pain / cricket, cry-cry, cicada
– ntenda : which buzzes, which thunders, which detonates / cricket, cricri
– ntenda : adolescent / medium-sized pig, young pig, animal that has not given birth
– ntenda : size, height
– ntendila : growing wave, eddies of the water after the passage of a boat
– ntendila : cleaning palm trees, weeding paths / ripening by darkening
– ntendo : survey, border, boundary, edge / piece of fabric
– ntendo / ntendoko : sincerity
– ntenzi : strength, vehemence, passion, warmth / boldness, audacity
– ntete : wicker basket that is carried on the head / bunch, bundle, sheaf / burden
– ntete : first, firstly, in the head
– ntetembua / ntetembo : star, celestial body, grouping of stars
– ntetila / ntendela : retail sale
– ntetokolo : hatching, advent
– ntewolo : way of saying / sewing
– nti : tree, stick, cane
– ntiakulu : defamation, denigration, invective, insult
– ntiengo : circular movement of the hips
– ntima : heart, middle, core
– ntimi : the one who digs, gravedigger
– ntindu / mutindu : sort, kind, type, way, manner
– ntini : direction, cardinal point / piece, fragment, part
– ntinta : ink, color, dye, paint
– ntinu : speed, quickness of movement / king
– ntinusu : reign
– nto : source, origin
– ntoba : marsh, swamp, deep mud / silt / manioc leaf, spinach, leafy cabbage
– ntobo : needle, tip, point, awl, punch for weaving baskets / vase
– ntodi / ntodia : humidity, moisture, moistness, freshness
– ntokakani : adjacency, contiguity, proximity
– ntokanasua : temptation, attraction towards evil
– ntoko : beauty, prettiness
– ntokozi : ungrateful person / press, insistence, zeal, obstinacy
– ntokula : chatter
– ntokuzi : joke
– ntola : size / deforestation, clearing in a forest
– ntoma : excellence, virtue
– ntomabilu / ntuamabilu : car, truck
– ntombi : researcher
– ntombo : grass renewal, young shoot / plant, sucker / eye, sprout / peanut stem
– ntombo : seed, sowing / season of the first rains / isolated village
– ntomboko / ntombokolo : beginning of ascent, slope, climb, rise, staircase, rung
– ntombolo : floors
– ntombudi : sucker, shoot, sprout / conductor, choir director
– ntombuka : ascent, climb / hill, small mountain
– ntomfi : feeling of suffocation, drowning / poorly ripened palm nuts / moldy palm nuts
– ntomo / ntome : good taste, pleasant flavor, pleasant taste
– ntomo : replacement, compensation / small lintel next to the big beams / invented story
– ntomosono : improvement, change for the better
– ntondi : the one who thanks, sympathizer, fan
– ntondo : recognition, thank you award / concern, grief, affliction, despair
– ntondo : stem of the palm that is incised to extract palm wine / cause, source, origin
– ntongwa : problem, riddle / brain
– ntoni : wise man
– ntonono : beginning, start, introduction, starting
– ntonto : test, ordeal, trial, experiment / temptation / humidity / freshness / small basket
– ntontolo : temptations, solicitations
– ntonzi : curse, bad luck
– ntotela / ntotila : title of Kongo king, Kongo sovereign, emperor, monarch
– ntotela : Kongo sovereign, emperor
– ntoto : earth, ground, soil
– ntotolo : collection, gathering, picking, crop, harvest
– ntozi : person who strikes up the chorus, singing director / palm wine shooter
– ntsaki : cutter
– ntshangi : dodge
– ntu : head, brain, mastermind, locomotive, motive force
– ntuadi : association, ensemble, meeting, gathering, community
– ntuadisi : guide, leader
– ntuadulu : melody, air, tune
– ntuala : in front, forward
– ntuala : torrent, stream of a river, draught, draft of air / month of January / range of a gun
– ntuazi : president, leader, chief, prince, president, guide
– ntue : the one who beats, hitter, striker
– ntuedi / ntuidi : stock breeder, animal breeder, cattle farmer, animal farmer, rancher
– ntuela : stock breeding, rearing
– ntuena : young
– ntuenia : youth, youthful freshness
– ntuenia : total youth population
– ntuilu : beating, caning
– ntuintu : cork
– ntuka : torment, disorder / dissimilarity, difference, inequality, irregularity
– ntuka : going out, coming out, output / source, origin
– ntuku : animal in early maturation, young animal, small pig
– ntuku : syntax mistake / palm disease that causes its leaves to wither and dry up
– ntululu : destination, point of arrival
– ntulumunu : offense, misdemeanor, crime
– ntumba : action of consecrating, initiation / firstborn, little piglet / virgin, young lady
– ntumba : slander, contempt, misunderstanding / blame, correction / steep slope / ridge / heap
– ntumbikila : heap, pile
– ntumbu : needle / grass sprout / virgin / lower part of the palm tree / small hernia
– ntumbu : small calabash that is hung from the palm tree to collect the palm wine
– ntumfu/ntumvu : gurgling, beating of the water with the hands
– ntumi : chief, manager, the one who gives the order / message, messenger, envoy, consul
– ntumpa : gushing orifice of underground water, exit from a burrow, fontanelle
– ntumua : messenger, envoy, delegate, ambassador, emissary, representative
– ntumunu : command, order
– ntumvu : bravado, insolence
– ntunda : good reputation, fame, celebrity / mountain, hill / black tattoo at the base of the nose
– ntungasani : art of palaver, art of negotiating
– ntungi : native, indigenous, great connoisseur of habits and customs / husband, wife
– ntungi : builder, bricklayer, mason, couturier, dressmaker
– ntungi / ntunti : commander, director, chief, guide
– ntungulu : construction, building, erection
– ntunta : disobedience, desire to harass, desire to pester, desire to be nasty / brutality, banditry
– ntunta : float of a fishing line / shooting range / mount
– ntunta : rhythm, beat, kind of dance according to the sound of the tam-tam
– ntuntani : throbbing pain throughout the body
– ntutu : bottle, flask, very round calabash / mouth, hollow, hole all open
– ntutula : pricking, puncture, incision
– ntutulu : hoarseness, depth of voice
– ntuvi : excess
– nyadi : ruler, leader, the one who rules, the one who reigns
– nyekudi : traitor
– nyendele / nyendolo : walk, step
– nyila : size, length, height
– nyosi / muyosi : whistling
– nyuvu / kiuvu : question
– nza : world, universe / earth, country / crowd, multitude / tsetse red fly
– nzaba : field ploughed and ready to plant groundnuts
– nzabi : connoisseur, scholar, scientist / crown of a tooth / large groundnut, peanut
– nzabu : haste, address / known person / acquaintance
– nzabudulu : circumcision
– nzabulu : traces of blood
– nzabungunu : renown, fame
– nzadi : river, large lake, large expanse of water / dew / lover / sister-in-law, brother-in-law
– nzadi : river / sister-in-law
– nzadi : kind of dance, kind of drum / vanity / small basket
– nzadusu : fullness
– nzaka : size / jacket
– nzakama : trembling, quivering, shivering, shiver
– nzaki / nsaki : speed, haste
– nzaki : quickness, speed
– nzaki-nzaki : haste, over-excitement
– nzaku : border, boundary / tree trunk or branch that extends over the water like a bridge
– nzakundisa : parasite, sponger, person who tries to benefit from the work of others
– nzaku-nzaku : scraps, leftovers, light meal, intermediate meal
– nzakuturi : grouping of three very large and very shiny stars
– nzala : hunger, famine / signature / desire, longing, keen aspiration / fingernails, toenails, claws
– nzambala : ample garment in dress shape, boubou
– nzanda : crowd, multitude, abundance, exuberance / addition to a story, additional order
– nzanga : field cultivated after the bushfire / crowd, multitude of
– nzangabala / nzangani / nzangi : great length
– nzangala : great length / fever / cold / grasshopper
– nzangatala : impudence, disrespect, lack of respect
– nzangila / nzangivila : twigs, very small branches, canes, small flexible branches
– nzanguka : growth, expansion, rise, ascent
– nzangula : slash-and-burn field
– nzania : crowd, multitude of
– nzanza : plateau, extended hill, large terrace, nature, open air
– nzanza : standing position / pride, ostentation
– nzanzi : sparkle, spark, glow / kind of rattle / kind of trap for birds
– nzanzu : haste, liveliness, vivacity / footbridge, wooden bridge / kind of trap for birds
– nzata / nzati / nzatia : mass, crowd, swarm
– nzata / nzawudu : insulting expression, insult
– nzaya : knowledge, learning
– nzayi : connoisseur, scholar, man of science
– nzayila : way of knowing, means of knowing, way of learning, learning process
– nzayilu : understanding, knowledge, science
– nzayikusu : revelation, apocalypse
– nzayilu : knowledge, science
– nzayilu : knowledge
– nzaza : sourness, tartness / bad cassava, old cassava, old potato
– nzazi : lightning / pretty woman
– nzebele : madness, weakness
– nzebo-nzebo : crumb, fragment, bite
– nzeka : hole from which winged termites fly away / wood-piercing insect
– nzekani : quarrel of words, violent argument, disposition to quarrel and fight / battle
– nzeke : gimlet, borer, piercer / plain
– nzele : young lady, pretty girl, chick / tower, thread, cord, ring, pearl necklace / summit, top
– nzelele : small shell / larva, borer beetle, termite species / water trickle
– nzelemukina : trickle of water
– nzele-nzele : sweetness, salty taste
– nzemba : way of wearing a loincloth to carry the baby on his back
– nzene / nziene / nzienze / nzienzi / nzienzie : small, little, few
– nzenga : allusion to, resemblance / what we cut, sliced piece, meat or bacon for sale
– nzenganga : apparent indifference, apparent impiety, apparent contempt
– nzengani : basin in the river where the water seems to stagnate
– nzengi : garden behind the house, place where we throw the domestic garbage / rat trap
– nzengi : cutter, the one who cuts / edge, border
– nzengila : battle, quarrel, disorder, confusion, trouble, agitation, hubbub
– nzengo : decision, sentence, award, verdict / edge, border, kerb, slope, hillside / stop, point
– nzengolo : decision, measure, instruction, directive
– nzenza : foreigner, guest
– nzenze : sweetness, saltiness, spicy taste / hairstyle drawing / cricket
– nzenzo : sweet taste, honey taste, pleasant taste, pleasant sensation, comfort
