Runyankore to English Dictionary – T

Runyankore to English Dictionary – T

t n. the twentieth letter of the English alphabet.
taapu n. tap: a device for controlling the flow of water from a pipe. Pl: taapu.
taata n. father: a male parent of a child.
taata n. dad: a child’s word for a father.
takisi n. taxi: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
tanka n. tank: a container used for storing large amounts of water..
taratara n. drum: a percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands typically cylindirical, barrel-shaped with a tout membrane over one or both sides and is small in size used for decoration.
taru-taru adj. a jumpy person who cannot sit in one place and keeps moving here and there.
tata n. See: TAATA. Pl: batata.
tataitwe n. 1) God: God our father. 2) Our father.
tatazaara n. father-in-law: the father of your spouse. Pl: batatazaara.
tatenkazi n. paternal aunt: the sister of your father or mother. Pl: batatenkazi.
tatenkuru n. grandfather: the father of your father or mother. Pl: batatenkuru.
tatento n. paternal uncle: the brother of your father. Pl: tatento.
tayaari adj. to be ready. Etym: [].
ti adv. a word used to join the negative to the verb.
tiitiiti adj. something that is very white.
tiivi n. television: an electronic device that receives signals and displays them on a screen.
tikwo conj. not so?
tindemwa n. a banana specie with short fingers.
tinfeerwa-kangye n. egocentric: a self-centred person with little regard for others.
tinshengyera n. drosophila: small brown flies that multiply very fast and hover around sweet foods or beer.
tipuhu adj. a voice made by someone spitting.
tiri-tiri adj. a sound that is heard when something is running.
tkaabusimba n. a type of house or building.
toduura n. a disease that attacks coffee and banana plantations.
togo-togo n. a sound made by food when boiling.
tonto n. local beer: beer made out of ripe bananas and left to ferment.
tori adj. a sound when something is thown in water.
tsyoi adj. to run all of a sudden.
tsyoi-tsyoi adj. birds sound/singing.
tubura n. a certain plant specie.
tuku-tuku adj. a situation of being so pure in colour.
tungutungu adj. to spend a sleepless night due to problems, fear or security situations.
turiya adj. those ones.
turusaka n. a wild animal which eats hens by traping them in its anus which has cereal liketwara-tugyende zo substance; when a hen come to pick it, it closes the anus and rus away with it. See: EKITEGARUHENDE, ORUHURA.
twara-tugyende phr. a phrase used to mean all the rest.
twa-twa-twa adj. a sound made by bullets.
twena adj. all of us.
twenka adj. only us.
twente n. a bean specie red in colour with dots.