Verb Intransitive and Transitive.

MEANING

To reach, touch.

Example of use

1.     umupaka wa calo washinta kwi? MEANING: where does the boundary reach?

2.     cashinta ku cibiye, MEANING: it reaches the other side.

      apashinta umweo, MEANING: where the very life reaches, i.e. in a deadly spot.

      (Figurative) bakuuma apashinta umweo, wafwa, MEANING they hit you on the weak spot, you die of it.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

ukufika.

MEANING 2

Worried.

Example of use

shinta mu nshiku, MEANING: to sit with head resting in hands, as one dejected or worried.

MEANING 3

To wrestle.

Example of use

baleshinta, MEANING: they are wrestling.

MEANING 4

(Verb Transitive) To cause to reach.

Example of use

ushinte icimuti ku cibumba, MEANING: make the wood reach the wall.

SYNONYM

fisha.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE: shintwa. 

APPLICATIVE: shintila.