Bula
Verb intranstive
MEANING
To fail
Amaka yasuka yabula, MEANING: He has no strength left.
MEANING 2
To be in need of
Example of use
Wabula amaano, MEANING: You are in need of brains.
MEANING 3
To be absent, missing, found missing( when checking up)
Example of use
1.Tauletele fyonse, fyabulapo fibili, MEANING: You did not bring everything, there are two missing.
3. Kubula kwa kuya, nga nayakale, MEANING: Had I had a place to go, I would have gone long ago.
4. Mbula ine, MEANING: Without me.
5. Ubula iwe, MEANING: Without you.
6. Ubula iwe, we mulume wandi, nga natufwa ku nsala, MEANING, Without you , my husband, we would have died of hunger.
7. Aubula bapo, nga banjipaya, MEANING: If you had not been there, they would have killed me.
8. Ishiwi ilyabule teeko, MEANING: Word spoken very quickly and that one cannot catch.
9. Mulandu uwabula ibiko, MEANING: A difficult affair, had to settle.
OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/ SOURCES/ FUNCTIONS
Passive- bulwa
APPLICATIVE - bulila.
PROVERBS
Umwaice uko atoola fulwe tabulwako
MEANING:
A child will not readily leave or will always come back to a place where he found a tortoise
Bemba meaning
Umundemwa.Umuntu uko amona bwino na kakasa kasengukilako.