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These are the Luganda Proverbs and their English meaning<\/p>\n
1.\tOba tonnagwa : tolaba kikusudde – As long as you have not fallen yet : you don’t know what has thrown you down
\n2.\tObeera ndegeya : wakunzimbye ku mumwa – If you were a weaverbird : you would build a nest right on my mouth
\n3.\tObikka ku maddu : nti malako ennyama, om eggumba – You are disguising your desire : (saying) finish the meat and give me the bone
\n4.\tObisse bibiri : toobojjerere – ( Abikka ebibiri: ) If you have covered two distant termite-hills : you won’t be able to ck the termites (eating them on the st)
\n5.\tObonaabona n’otafa – ( Zikusooka ne zitakuva: ; Ennume ebonaabo-nanga: ) Keeon suffering and don’t die! It is better to rsevere and not to give u Lat
\n6.\tObonyeebonye : anti alaba alonda – You have seen trouble : well, the one who sees, finds
\n7.\tObubaka tibufa nga butunzi – The respect for a (former) chief does not come to an end as does that for a former trader
\n8.\tObubbi ntadde : omukazi ali mbuga – I have finished with stealing (says the husband who has been stealing) : if they have taken his wife (as a hostage) to the chief’s place (till he gives himself up)
\n9.\tObubuiwa : bukuliisa (ettooke) eriri mu maaso ga mumw – (= Obubulwa buku-tooza – – ) Having no food in front of you : makes you take the ttooke from your neigh-bour’s helping
\n10.\tObubulwa ggye : busembeza emmandwa ku lubu – The absence of an army : brings the lubaale priest to the front rank
\n11.\tObudde butuukira mu muti ne bukya – (other form: Ennyonyi etuukira – – ) Dawn comes un the tree and the day starts
\n12.\tObudde bwe buziba : ennyonyi yeeyuna omuti – When the day comes to a close : the bird takes shelter in a tree
\n13.\tObufuzi bw’emmese : bulabika ng’omaze okuzimba enju – The fact you are put in charge of rats, is seen as soon as you have built your house
\n14.\tObugagga ntuuyo : zittulukuka ng’ogenda, bw’owummula nga zikuggwako – Wealth is like perspiration : it abounds when you are active, but comes to an end when you rest (on your laurels)
\n15.\tObuganzi bukayanirwa – Favouritism is passionately struggled for
\n16.\tObugayaavu : buzaala obunafu – ziness begets weakness (physical and moral)
\n17.\tObugezageza bwatta ssessolye – Trying repeatedly for the bait in the trap killed the ssessolye (little birds eating menvu)
\n18.\tThe tcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last – Dutch De kruik gaat zo lang to water tot zij breekt
\n19.\tObuggya dda : bukaza omuvule – To be of olden times : makes the muvule wither
\n20.\tObugulu obutono : sibumegga nnyinibwo; singa nnamunye atambula agwa – Short legs do not throw down their owner; otherwise the wagtail would fall whilst walking
\n21.\tObugwagwa nnyumba mbi : ogiyingira ogiraba – ( Kiryango kibi: ) Immorality is like a dirty house : at the very entrance itself the filth is obvious
\n22.\tObukaba bukulya amaaso : nti Wamala yansiiwa – Immorality is eating your eyes, and you give as reason for it: The lubaale Wamala has rubbed ashes into my eyes
\n23.\tObukadde buwoomya ki? : wazira ttooke – ( Mpa kikula kiwooma: ) What becomes sweeter through age? : bananas only
\n24.\tObukadde obusinda amaluma : bwetisse mukene all ku mutwe – Old age which complains of plain food : is carrying a headload of mukene (small lake fish – excellent nva)
\n25.\tObuuka ebikoomi ng’atalya bbugga – You are jumping over ground, where a heap of grass has been burnt, like a man who does not eat bbugga (vegetable)
\n26.\tObukaajumbe : anaabusereka akeera – He who wants to t old thatch on the roof again : does so early in the morning
\n27.\tObukojja bwa munno si bukojja bwo – The marriage relations of your friend (or your marriage partner) : are not yours
\n28.\tObukopi bugezza effuba : ng’omutono ye mwami – ( Omwami: ) To be a peasant swells the chest (makes proud, cheeky) : if the chief is a small man
\n29.\tObukulu buwoomya ttooke – ( Obukadde buwoomya ki: ) Ripeness makes ttooke sweet
\n30.\tObukulu ndege : tezivugira mu mazzi – ( Omukulu takulira mpya bbiri: ) Authority is like ankle-bells : they do not ring in water
\n31.\tObukya buziba : omwana alwa ddaaki n’ayisa amuzaala – After the morning comes the evening : the child finally overtakes the rent
\n32.\tObukyala gwe bunaalema : abuwa musebeyi – One who is going to be tired of being principal wife, gives her powers away to one of the concubines (e
\n33.\tObukyawe bukira eddogo – ( Bakukyawanga n’otogya ddogo: ) To be hated is better than to be involved in witchcraft
\n34.\tObulamu kye kiwango : akiina Baabutiko – (One who says) Life is long living : makes fun of the people of the mush-room clan
\n35.\tObulamu ttooke : bugenda n’abulabirira – Life is like ttooke : it goes (perishes) when the cultivator goes
\n36.\tObulema tebujja dda – Lameness does not come (only) in later life (like old age) (it is possible also in childhood)
\n37.\tObulimba bussa nnannyinibwo – ( Ky’olimba obuko: ) A liar is killed by his own lies
\n38.\tObuuliridde nfuuzi : kwennyamira – ( Babikidde enfuuzi: ) If you talk to an oran (about his rent) : he (or she) feels grief again (remembering the loss)
\n39.\tObulonda mke : tebugaana njala kugwa – The finding of just one ear of corn does not keehunger away
\n40.\tObulo sibubadde bwange : bubadde bwa Ggulu-ddene – The millet corn was not mine : it belonged to the eleant
\n41.\tObulungi : bukira obugagga – Beauty is better than riches
\n42.\tObulungi bw’enswa : atalya mutima gwa mbuzi, aguliira mu nswa – The beauty (taste) of flying ants : one who does not eat the heart of a goat, eats it in a flying ant (it is not butchered)
\n43.\tObulungi obwemanye : ) bukuvumya akusinga; ) bukuyisa ku balya – ( Obuteeraba: ) Selfconscious righteousness (beauty) : ) causes you to abuse one who is better than you (ide); ) makes you ss by oe who are eating (against good manners)
\n44.\tObulungi obw’ensozi : obulaba oziri wala – The beauty of hills you admire : when you see them from afar
\n45.\tObulungi si ddya : (wabula emsa) – ( Bulungi si ddya: ) Beauty is not the same as a hay marriage : (but the behaviour)
\n46.\tObulwa bukula musaayi : nga si ggwe bafumise oba nga tebafumise wuwo – A fight gets lively, when blood is drawn : (so one says) only if it is not you who has been speared, or if they have not speared your own relation (son, father, brother)
\n47.\tObulwa dda : ) blikaza ekkubo ku lwazi; ) bukutula empalaata – Walking on a rock for a long time : ) makes a visible path on it
\n48.\tObusajja bukirana – The strong qualities surss each other
\n49.\tObuuse nga wajjiibwa – You fly high, but not far : like the pigeon
\n50.\tObusenze bukala mmuli – ( Busenze: ; Ekitta obusenze: ) Tenancy is firmly established by (bringing) reeds
\n51.\tObusenze butta munaanya – Serfdom kills the lazy man
\n52.\tObusenze bwe bubula : enswa entunda ezimba ku mpawu – If the entunda-termite does not want to work on its own anthill, it builds on the hill of the mpawu-termite
\n53.\tObusigire bwassa Kisolo – Stewardship killed Kisolo
\n54.\tObusigire tibugenda na kabukuto – To be a representative does not go well together with urging on people impor-tunely
\n55.\tObusiro tebutuukirwako : ajja okulya, atuukira ku ndagala – Busiro (the king’s place) is not reached at once : one who is going to eat, reaches first the banana leaves (spread out as table cloth)
\n56.\tObusiru obwakukutte bwa nkoko : bugizaalisa mu kyalo – The madness that got hold of you is that of a hen : it makes her lay eggs in the village (away from home)
\n57.\tObusolo bwa kuno tebufa : atega gumu – (One who says) The animals of this ace do not die : sets only one tra The hunter who is more rsevering and lays tra all over the ace, will get more
\n58.\tObusolo gye babutta, gye bweyuna (= bweyunira) : ) ettooke eddene mu ggwaatiro; ) omumonde omunene gukula mu lusalosalo – ( Gye babutta: ) Where they kill the animals, there they go again : ) like the big banana at the eling ace itself; ) a giant tato grows in the ditch
\n59.\tObusungu mugenyi : ) akyala n’addayo; ) amala kuboonoonyesanga yeege-nderera – Anger is like a visitor : ) he comes and goes; ) first it caliijjuses you to do evil and then it goes away
\n60.\tObusungu obungi : bukulagiriza emmese olusuubo – ( Omwogezi ayinga: ) Great anger : makes you show the food parcel to the rat (because in your anger you talk to yourself, whilst hanging up the food parcel, saying: I’ll hang it up here and the rat will find it)
\n61.\tObusungu obungi tebukkutibwa (= tibukkutwa) : Nnamunkanga eyabukkuta ekifuba kabanika – Great anger is never satisfied : the dragon-fly that got its fill, got a distended chest
\n62.\tObutaagalana bukusabisa mukazi wo gonja – ( Okulwawo kukusabya: ) Absence of mutual love makes you ask your wife for a roasted banana
\n63.\tObutajja kundaba nnasiba embwa ku lumbugu n’egaana okululya? Is the reason that you never came to see me : because I have tied the dog to the lumbugu (grass) and it refused to eat it? What have I done, that you shun my company? –
\n64.\tObutalya ku kimu bwassa wajjiibwa – Eating not only one (caster-oil-berry) : killed the geon
\n65.\tObutamanya bya mwaka : ng’emmese esula omw’omulima – Not knowing the time of the year (season) : means being like a rat that lives in the house of a farmer
\n66.\tObutamanya nnaku : bukuzza gye baakutunda – Not knowing the misery (that awaits you at home) : makes you run back to the place where they have sold you
\n67.\tObutamanyirira : bukussa n’omuyombi omukago – Lack of experience : makes you contract blood-brotherhood with a quarrel-some person
\n68.\tObutamanyirira butabaaza anaafa – Being unexperienced makes one fight and meet death (risking too much)
\n69.\tObutamera kirevu ; njuba ya kikome, ekuliisa lwa ggulo – Beardlessness is like a cloudy day (overcast sky) : which makes you take your suer early
\n70.\tObutannaziba : tobusindikirako maluma – When it is not yet evening : do not complain that there are no vegetables (meat, fish, greens, termites etc
\n71.\tObutasaba baabulekera (= bwalekerwa) mbwa – Taking without asking they considered as befitting a dog only (not man)
\n72.\tObutaseeranye : tibugulibwa – Without mutual bargaining in trading (buguzi) : there will be no sale
\n73.\tObutateesa buliisa abasatu amaluma – Not talking things over : makes three people eat without vegetables
\n74.\tObutazimbye : bumanyibwa nnyinibwo – ins (bulumi) which show no visible signs (swellings) are only understood by the patient himself
\n75.\tObutekkaanya : bukutindiza balugu (ng’enva ze balya zirandira wansi) – Thoughtlessness makes you lead up the balugu-plant (yam) (because what is eaten of that plant, is not above, but below ground)
\n76.\tObuteeraba : bukuvumya akusinga – (= Obuteemanya – – ) Not to shout ku lwa Kabaka (when saring an animal) : means enmity
\n77.\tObuteeraba : bukuyumya akusinga – Obuteemanya – – ) Not knowing one’s own failings : makes you blame one who is better than yourself
\n78.\tObuteerowooza : ng’omuwuulu asaba eggobe – ( Balusaggya: ) To be thoughtless : as a bachelor is who asks for ggobe (vegetables)
\n79.\tObutetenkereza : bukonya obuto – ( Ntetenkanyiriza: ) Slow cooking leaves unripe bananas underdone
\n80.\tObuteewuliriza bunyooza ennanga amatu – Not answering quickly to the tuning-efforts causes a harp (i
\n81.\tObuteezhnbira bwassa wangiri – Not building its own house : has killed the wild pig
\n82.\tObutise amatama : nga nnyinimu abba – ( Ntudde entende: ) You cover your jaws (you keep your mouth shut) : like the owner of the house who steals
\n83.\tObutooke obuto : bugwana nva – Unripe matooke ought to be offered with enva (vegetables)
\n84.\tObutta bumenya omulawo : oleeta kibaya – If the (tough) porridge breaks the stick (used for stirring) : do you bring a papyrus-stalk (to stir with)? If strong measures did not bring success, will weaker ones do?
\n85.\tObuwa si bugabane – To give is not to share
\n86.\tObuwulize : bwe buganzi – ( Muddu awulira: ) Obedience means affection (favouritism)
\n87.\tObuyingirwa : bwambaza embwa olukoba – Forced obedience ts the collar round the dog’s neck
\n88.\tObuyisi bw’omu : nsega y’ebika (= bulangwa nsega) – The passing away of the lonely traveller is made known by the vultures (circling over the body)
\n89.\tObuzadde bulima : obusuutira we babwagala (= okwenyumiikiriza we bakwaga-la) – Parenthood is like tilling the land : they (the parents) like to be praised for it
\n90.\tObuzadde buwonya embooge – Bringing forth saves the mbooge (vegetables) from being killed (plucked)
\n91.\tObuzaaliro si bwe bukuliro – The place where one is born is not the place where one grows old
\n92.\tObuuza nga Munyolo : akulaba n’ensuwa, nti ogenda iziba? You are greeting like a Munyoro : when he sees you with a watert, he says: are you going to the well? Lunyoro iziba corresnds to Luganda emugga –
\n93.\tObuziina gye babwagala : gye babwaliirira – Where they like the rags : they spread out the mat for them
\n94.\tObwami ddiba lya mbogo : terizingwa omu – Chieftainship is like a buffalo-skin : it cannot be rolled up by one man
\n95.\tObwami kyambalo kyazike : nnannyinikyo bw’akikuggyako togaana – Chieftainship is like a borrowed garment : if its owner takes it away from you, you cannot object
\n96.\tObwami obutono : bukubuuzisa gwe watumye – A small chieftainshimakes you question the one you have sent (with a mes-sage)
\n97.\tObwangu bw’okuwa : bukuweesa atalikuwa – Being quick in giving : makes you give things to one who won’t give you any-thing in return
\n98.\tObwavu bukuliisa ebikonde – ( Omwavu aluma: ) Poverty makes you eat your fists
\n99.\tObwavu bukuliisa nnyoko – Poverty makes you eat your mother
\n100.\tObwavu si bbanja – Poverty is not (as bad) as having debts
\n101.\tObwavu : tebukozza – verty does not make one thin
\n102.\tObwavu tebukumanyisa gw’oyagala (or: akwagala) – Poverty does not let you know whom you might love (who might love you)
\n103.\tObwayiise : tebuyooleka – (obulamu) What is ured out, cannot be gathered again
\n104.\tObw’effumu : si bwa ddogo – (obulwadde) Sickness from a sar-wound and from witchcraft are not (to be treated) alike
\n105.\tObw’ekiro : buzimbya enkadde – (entwiri) Night-time : makes old rancour grow
\n106.\tObwemage bwe balanga : enjobe mu lusa – (A person whom they accuse) without reason : is like an antelope in the marsh (accused of having damaged the crop)
\n107.\tObw’enkya : si bwe buziba – ( Bwe bukya: ) The weather in the morning is (often) not the same as in the evening
\n108.\tObwerabize obungi : bukusabya gwe wamma – Great forgetfulness makes you ask something from a person, to whom you have (in the past) refused a request
\n109.\tObwesige bull nnyanja – Trust (safety) is found on the lake
\n110.\tObwewussa bussa (= bulitta) emmandwa – Hypocrisy kills the sorcerer
\n111.\tObwezizingirire empogola erwana mu ntamu – To be tied up all round ,: is like a banana in the jacket, fighting in the cooking pot
\n112.\tObw’olubuto : butwala obw’omutwe – (obuwadde) Illness of the belly : brings along illness of the head
\n113.\tObw’omu buwola(ko) oluuyi – Porridge (obutta) served to one man gets cold on one side (the one he is not eating from)
\n114.\tObw’omulimba : tibukeerera – The time which a liar mentions (in his narrations) is not disputed
\n115.\tObw’omutambuze tibuziba : enjuba egudde ng’agamba: npenda emisana – For a traveller it does not get dark : although the sun is down, he says: , it is still light!
\n116.\tObwosi : buluma gwe bwaddako – The sickness obwosi (of children who are deprived of breast-feeding) hurts more those children born before (by the same father)
\n117.\tOdaagana (= otaagana) : ng’olwatta Mpoobe e Kibiri – You make vain attempts (to escape your fate) : like Mpoobe (who was killed by Walumbe) at Kibiri
\n118.\tOduula nga musibe : nti tunaalaba okusula nga tutunula – You speak sarcastically like a blind man : (saying) we shall find a place for sleeping, while we still see (whilst it is still day-light)
\n119.\tOfanga n’otodda : ng’omuntu anyaze omukazi – Die and don’t come back (be courageous and don’t fear death) : like a man who fights for a woman (in the battle)
\n120.\tOfubye ng’akagobera embuga : nti bwe kanaalya omwana wa beene – You are solicitous like one who drives a wild animal away from the chief’s ace : (fearing) it might eat somebody’s child (the chief’s)
\n121.\tOfudde lwa nnabamba : kawumpuli lwatta omuwazi – You died of a contagious sickness : plague killed the tanner
\n122.\tOfunda n’ekkubi : n’otobeera na ddiirawamu – You prefer an ekkubi (big bird of prey which sucks only the blood of the animal killed) to the big grey eagle, which takes the booty along
\n123.\tOfunda ne ndikutunda : n’otobeera ne ndikutta – You efer to be with one who says I shall sell you, rather than with one who says I shall kill you
\n124.\tOfunda n’omuko omwavu : n’akulambula – ( Omuko omwavu akanya: ) It is better to be content with a poor son-in-law : he will come personally to help you, when you are in need
\n125.\tOfunda n’omuliika : n’anunula (= n’akukuliza) abaana – ( Bayita n’omuliika: ) You bear with an usurer, if he redeems your children (from slavery)
\n126.\tOfuuse gw’e Kanyanya : mugenzi tazze – You have become like the edible-rat of Kanyanya : once gone (escaped) it did not come back
\n127.\tOgandadde nga mubbi ow’omunnyu : bakuba omwana – ( Obutise amatama: ) You lie on your back (saying nothing) like one who has stolen salt (and does not confess) : although they beat the child for it
\n128.\tOgenda Mbaale mu Baganda banno – You are going to Mbaale to your Baganda-brethren
\n129.\tOgenze mugga : okuggwa kko? ( Twazze mugga: ) Do you go to the river : to get rid of the dirt? Said of somebody who wants to get rid of his debts –
\n130.\tOggye ku mutwe : otadde ku kibegabega – You have taken (the load) from the head and t it on the shoulder (i
\n131.\tOgira ekiniga : ng’omusezi alya menvu – ( Okinagguka ng’omusezi: ) You are spiteful : like a nightdancer eating menvu (eating-bananas)
\n132.\tOgitte : eva mu nnyiniyo – (The order) kill it (the cow or the goat) can only come rightly from the mouth of the owner
\n133.\tOgobedde munya mu ssubi – You have driven the lizard into the grass (the thatch of the house)
\n134.\tOgubula eyeeguya : tegukala – (omukwano) Friendshithat is lacking in mutual interests (consideration), does not last (is not solid)
\n135.\tOgudde ddalu : kuwona mabanja – (If) you become mad : (that means) you get rid of debts
\n136.\tOguddinnanwa : gwe guwunya ensiwo – (omwenge) Beer that is mixed again with ferment : makes the brew tasty
\n137.\tOgufa : tegumanya yasooka – (omukwano) Friendship that comes to an end, no longer knows the one who started it
\n138.\tOguggwa : tiguba muka – ( Okulya ennyingi: ) Beer that is finished : has no taste (was not strong enough)
\n139.\tOgugutana : ng’ow’ejjanga aloga muliro – You are disputing something (muttering to yourself) : like one with sick (bleary) eyes, kindling a fire
\n140.\tOguliko omuseesa : teguzikira – Fire that has a ker (stirrer), does not go out
\n141.\tOgummuka gwe gukuwa nsogola – The expectation of the mubisi being tasty (pleasant to drink), encourages you to brew
\n142.\tOgunaanyula : tegubuulirwa muwemba, ne bw’ossaako omungi – Unfermented banana-juice (mubisi) that is going to be good beer : is not influenced by muwemba (millet, added for fermentation) even if you add much of it
\n143.\tOgusula gwe gukuwa emza : nga mulungi – (omusango) A case which is stned (for another day) gives you a chance of defence : if it is in your favour
\n144.\tOgutaggwa : guboolanga abataka – (omusango) Incessant strife : brings mutual hatred among the land-owners
\n145.\tOgutaliiko mpeera : gugenda n’okwebaza – Work for which no payment is asked : goes with thank you
\n146.\tOgutali mutume : tegukalaza (= tigukaluba) – (omulimu) Work which is not a command : does not make one angry (or: is not irksome)
\n147.\tOgutannammuka : tigukukubisa mwana – (omubisi) Since the mubisi (banana juice) has not yet oozed out : this (fact) causes you to refrain from beating the child (if he takes and sucks a lyenvu)
\n148.\tOgutateganya : siguzza nvuma – (omulimu) ( Ayagala okunyiriza: ; Ky’oyagala kikuseeza: ) Effort which does not persevere : does not bring back the slave (who has escaped)
\n149.\tOgwa gonja (= olwa gonja) teguggwe? : nga y’alidde eky’engabo – Will the affair with the gonja not come to an end? : (says the one) who has already eaten the best part of it (ekiwango ky’engabo)
\n150.\tOgwa kasajja gundeebuukanya : nga ggwe wamwezaalira – ( Gunzise mu vvi: ; Kwata n’owaayo: ) The case of the little man (son) has caused me a lot of hard work : (you say so) if you have brought him forth
\n151.\tOgwayambadde : teguyita bwereere (= teguyitira awo) – A body that is clothed : does not walk naked
\n152.\tOgw’edda : tigukutwaza lubugo lumu – Old friendship : does not make you take one barkcloth (for the burial)
\n153.\tOgw’embuga : gutta atagenze – (omulimo) Work for the chief : kills the man who refused to go
\n154.\tOgw’embuga : ) gutta ogw’obuko (ng’abakazi alina babiri); ) tigulekeka – (omulimo) The work for the chief (communal work) : ) comes before the work for the father-in-law (if one has two wives); ) cannot be left alone
\n155.\tOgw’embuga : tigunywebwa atudde wamu – (omwenge) The chief’s beer is not drunk by him who remains at home
\n156.\tOgw’enzikiza : ayogedde ku bule – (omusango) One who accuses another of a crime committed in the dark (without witnesses) : talks about little clouds (i
\n157.\tOgw’okulya : gusuula emmese mu kita – Gluttony throws the rat into the beer-calabash
\n158.\tOgw’omulimba : tiguggwa mpoza – (omusango) The trial of a liar never comes to an end (in arguing)
\n159.\tOjaganya ng’eyakimeza okw’enjala : nti obutiko bugenda kukuloga enjala? You are rejoicing like one who has watched a mushroom grow in famine-time : are mushrooms going to aease your hunger? Mushrooms do not nourish – – Taking easure in worthless things
\n160.\tOjaganya ng’ow’amalibu alonze erinnyo – You are rejoicing, like a toothless fellow, who has found a tooth
\n161.\tOjjanga kwa nkuba : omusana guleeta enjala – Come during the rainy season! : the hot season brings famine
\n162.\tOjjanga n’olya : y’akuyita Lubuna miryango – Come and have food with me (he says) : and then he calls you a miserable hungry fellow, hanging round all doorsteps
\n163.\tOjjukidde okwebikka : ng’obudde bukedde – You think of covering yourself (to go to sleep) : when the dawn is breaking
\n164.\tOjjukire okwebikka : nga bukyali! ( Ojjukidde okwebikka: ) Think of your bedding (place for sleeping etc – ), when there is still day-light
\n165.\tOkaabidde mu lwabya : wakasanke mu lwa mngu – You wail at the mourning-rites : like the kasanke (small red finch) at the mourning for the eagle
\n166.\tOkaddiwanga mubiri : n’otokaddiwa mwoyo – You become old in your body : but you are still young in your mind
\n167.\tOkalaliddwa : atali muwadde okuyoya obusera – You are (unreasonably) angry : as it is unreasonable of one who is not sick to clamour for rridge (buugi)
\n168.\tOkambagga (or: Akambagga) : ng’embidde ematirewo – You are a sour fellow : like freshly eled mbidde (beer-bananas)
\n169.\tOkamaze : omufumba kafu lw’eggulo – You are the limit : you cook (for your husband) only a tiny bit in the evening! Laziness, stinginess!
\n170.\tOkangabadde : ng’ebyanika taba – (ebiriba) You are difficult (crooked, stubborn) : like cow-hides on which tobacco is dried (in the sun)
\n171.\tOkansombedde : kimbagaya yakasombera Balama – ( Tekibula musombi: ) You have brought evil over me : as the Kimbagaya has brought it over the Balama
\n172.\tOkantyabidde : akalimu obuwuka obw’okunnuma – (akaku) ( Omwana ali-ntyabira: ) You have collected firewood for me : in which there are stinging insects
\n173.\tOkekkera ng’afumba ekiro : nti ssebo tunaaliira mulyango – You are talking (nonsense) like a woman cooking late in the evening : (saying) ssebo we can eat in the doorway (in the moonlight)
\n174.\tOkekkera ng’afumba obutooke obuto : nti ewaffe tulya ga bisiisa – You are talking (nonsense) like one cooking unri bananas : (saying) at home we eat caterllars
\n175.\tOkekkera nga agula endiga (= ente), nti yaswala amagulu – You are talking like a man who buys a sheep (cow) and complains about its ugly legs
\n176.\tOkekkera ng’agula nnandere : nti taliimu maaso; k’oli nti ogula wa kukuuma waka? You talk nonsense like one who buys a nnandere (small fish in Lake Kyoga), saying: but it has no eyes! ; (reply) do you buy it for watching your house (in your absence)? If these fish are kept for long, nnyenje or rats might eat their eyes; a sign that they are not fresh – Munno
\n177.\tOkekkera nga muk’omugoma; nti ow’omwange leero agireese n’amayembe gaayo? Are you joking like a drummaker’s wife, who says: Oh today my husband has brought his fare with the horns on? When cattle were killed in the lubiri (king’s enclosure), the drummers were given the heads and the women greeted their husbands with this joke –
\n178.\tOkekkera nga nnakawere omuli w’omunnyo : nti nnawonyezza kigongo – You are talking like a mother whose newly born child has died, because the mother has taken salt during her pregnancy, saying: I have saved my kigongo (my life)
\n179.\tOkekkera nga nnakyeyombekedde asima kandi : nti kuliko nsajjalala; nti ekiku-suza wekka mu nju, ng’abasajja ball mu ttaka kiki? You are talking like a spinster digging up kandi (kind of yam) and saying: there are tasteless ones among them; (sarcasm) why do you live alone in your house, if there are men in your soil? Lusajjalala has two meanings: ) tasteless, inedible yam; ) manikin, miserable specimen of a man –
\n180.\tOkekkera ng’ava eri omulwadde, nti twasuze ku bugubi – You are exaggerating like one who comes from visiting a sick person, saying: we have stayed with him till the cry of the quails (early morning)
\n181.\tOkekkera ng’eyakafiirwa, nti leero nadda wa? : nti abaflirwa edda balaga wa? You are talking like one who has just lost (a near relation) through death, saying: where shall I go now? : (answer) where did those go, formerly, who lost their relations? p –
\n182.\tOkekkera ng’eyeekubye ekigere : nti simanyi kye kinanviiramu – You are talking nonsense like one who has hurt his toe and says: I do not know what will come out of it (i
\n183.\tOkekkera ng’omufumite : nti omusaayi gupnenze munda; bulijjo gubeera wa? You are talking like one who has been speared : (saying) my blood is flowing into my body; (answer) where is it otherwise? , –
\n184.\tOkekkera ng’omugemuzi agamba, nti enkukunyi zampaatidde ku kibuga – You stretch a point like one who has taken victuals to the bbooma and says: the fleas have attacked me in the chief’s place
\n185.\tOkekkera ng’omugenyi eyaliiridde amaluma : nti omutwe nnassa wa? nti zinga mu ddiba ly’embuzi – You are talking like a visitor who was given food without vegetables (addi-tional dishes), saying: where shall I put the head (meaning his own head, for the night’s rest)?; (answer of the host) wrap it up in the goat’s skin
\n186.\tOkekkera ng’omukazi agamba, nti emmanga eyo tekyayita kambe – You are talking like a woman, saying: down there (in the lusuku) a knife cuts no more (matooke) (i
\n187.\tOkekkera ng’omukazi omuzadde : omwana bw’akaaba, nti bwandu bwe bumu-kaabya – You are talking like a mother, whose son is crying (saying) : it is stomach-ache that makes him cry
\n188.\tOkekkera ng’omulimi w’empindi agamba, nti empindi zange zali ziri matuba, ennyonyi zizirya – You are exaggerating like a planter of beans, saying: my beans over there are as big as figs and the birds feed on them
\n189.\tOkekkera ng’omukunku eyeekoonye : nti ekigere nkimazeewo; nti kyakume-zeeko ggulo? You are talking like one without toes who has stumbled : (and says) I have ruined my toe!; (sarcastic answer) has it (the toe) just grown this evening? (formerly you had no toes) –
\n190.\tOkekkera ng’omulwadde agamba, nti kasookedde ndwala siryanga ka mu ntamu wabula obusera bwe nnawuseeko eggulo bwokka – You are exaggerating like a sick person (complaining) : since I have been sick, I have not eaten anything cooked in a cooking pot; I have sipped only a little porridge in the evening
\n191.\tOkekkera ng’omulwadde anywa taba : nti kasooka ndwala siriimu mukka – You talk (nonsense) like a sick man who is smoking : (saying) since I fell sick, I have no breath
\n192.\tOkekkera ng’omulwadde nti lulinzita nga lummazeemu amaanyi – You are talking like a sick person who says: the sickness will kill me as my strength is finished
\n193.\tOkekkera ng’omulwadde nti olumbe lwanzimba munda – You are talking (nonsense) like a sick person : (saying) the sickness caused a swelling inside my body
\n194.\tOkekkera ng’Omunaawa : nti Kabaka yandeka nga ndi gongo; nti kaakano oli muluusi? You are talking like a certain naawa (ganda of wokota) saying: When the king died, I was at gongo (place on the saka road); (the other under-stands: I was a mugongo (female animal bearing), and asks) and now you are a muluusi (animal not yet bearing)? , –
\n195.\tOkekkera ng’Omunnabuddu : nti Kabaka yantuma lwokyo; nti olwokya Kaba-ka baluggya Buddu? ( Oyogedde bitajja: ) You are talking like a man from Buddu : (saying) the king has sent me on an urgent errand; (reply) does the branding iron (that cauterizes the sores of the king) come from Buddu? In Lunnabuddu lwokyo means in a hurry; in Luganda branding iron – ,
\n196.\tOkekkera ng’Omunnabusiro asima balugu : nti laba Kabaka mwe yakkira! ; nti owuwo ali mu ttaka? You are talking like the man in Busiro, digging for yam and exclaiming: look here, the king (big tuber) is down here! ; (rey) is your king living in the soil? , –
\n197.\tOkekkera ng’Omunnabuyaga : nti leero Kajeerero ali Nkira, nti edda ggwe wamukiranga? You are talking (nonsense) like a man from Buyaga (county) saying: Today the Kajeerero (chief) lives at Nkira (place); (reply) have you formerly surpassed him? sunderstanding the expression: ali Nkira (he lives at Nkira), and inter-preting it as alinkira (he will surpass me) –
\n198.\tOkekkera ng’Omunyolo : nti okulya enkolo, ndya lumonde; nti enkolo, nga lumonde gw’olabye? You talk like a nyoro (yima) who says: I should prefer to eat potatoes, rather than banana-stumps; (reply) where you eat banana-stumps do you find any potatoes? Banana-stumps are only famine food; therefore where you see people eating them, you can be sure potatoes are no longer there – Castles in the air
\n199.\tOkekkera ng’omunywi w’emmindi : nti mundeke, sikyalimu mukka – ( Oke-kkera ng’omulwadde anywa taba: ) You are talking lies like a pipe smoker who says: Leave me alone, I have no breath left
\n200.\tOkekkera ng’omusasi : ) nti nnyabo nnyinyika! ; ) nti nnyabo tompeereza mutwe? You are talking nonsense like one who wants to work for food : ) (saying) madam, give me work! Okunnyika has two meanings: to put to work or to immerse – The madam seems to understand the latter and asks teasingly: Don’t you know that the man Mpisi whom they put into the lake Mutukula (in Ssingo – Hoima Road) never came back? You are talking nonsense like one who wants to work for food : ) (saying) madam, won’t you put more on top (of the food basket)? The woman takes mutwe in the literal meaning and asks: If your mother has not given you a head, when you were born, how can I give you one now? \/
\n201.\tOkekkera ng’omusumba w’enkoko : nti ez’ewange ziwalalira emiyagi; nti ggwe, nnannyinizo owalalira emivule? ( Amampaati aga nnyini: ) You are exaggerating like one with a hen-farm : (saying) those hens at my home leap over miyagi shrubs; (sarcastic reply) and you, their owner, probably leap over muvule trees? –
\n202.\tOkekkera ng’Omuyima (= Omulaalo) : nti nnalidde enjuba; nti eyiyo eri munda? You are talking like a yima (herdsman) saying: I have eaten the njuba; (reply) oh! your sun then is inside the body! In Luganda njuba means sun; in Luyima it means blood cooked from the lancing of a cow –
\n203.\tOkekkera ng’Omuzungu : ndiyo; nti wabuna nsi? You talk nonsense like a White man, constantly saying ndiyo; are you all over the place? Ndiyo means yes in Kiswahili, but I am there in Luganda –
\n204.\tOkekkera ng’omwavu gwe bakwatira ku kibuga : nti singa bantadde ndaba omugagga mu kyalo, mmugwako – You are talking like a poor man they have caught in the town (without musolo-ticket) : (saying) if they would let me free, I would go and see a rich man in the village and beseech him to help me
\n205.\tOkekkera ng’ow’ebbango, nti bwe nnatuuka, nnagwa bugazi – You are talking like a hunchback, saying: when I arrived, I fell on my back
\n206.\tOkekkera ng’ow’ebikaata ava embuga : nti tukutte mu gabuguma – You are talking like one with syphilitic hands, coming from the chief’s place and saying: we got hold of some hot things (hot meat)
\n207.\tOkekkera ng’ow’ejjanga abika, nti gundi yafa : nti naffe tulabye bw’okaaba – You are talking like one with inflamed eyes, bringing a death notice, So and so died : (reply) we also see how you are weeping
\n208.\tOkekkera ng’ow’ekirevu akuma omuliro : nti bampeeyo essubi nkume omuliro; nti eryo lyonna erikuli ku mumwa? You are talking like a bearded fellow lighti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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