Bunda
Verb transitve and intransive.

MEANING 1

To be overcast, on the point of raining

MEANING 2

To bury a person.

Example of use

Nabamubunda, MEANING: They have buried him/her.

MEANING 3  

To pierce, drive into.

Example of use

Amubundamo ifumo, MEANING: He drove a spear into him/her.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

–Lasa.

MEANING 4  

To take big mouthfuls of meat.

Example of use

Abunda fyonse mu kanwa, MEANING: He put everything in hismouth.

OTHER RELATEDWORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE. –Bundwa 

Ubukula bwabundwa, MEANING: The garden is flooded.

 Ifisako fyabundwa ku mfula, MEANING: The branches are soaked by the rain.

APPLICATIVE:–Bundila.       

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

twabundwa ku beeni, MEANING: we are overwhelmed by visitors

Umushi wabundwa, MEANING: the village is polluted (as by contaminated water from the mines) 

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