Verb Transitive and Intransitive.

MEANING1

to remove.

Example of use

1.     sokola isembe mumupini, MEANING: to take an axe out of its handle.

2.     abulo mupini, asokolamo nesembe, MEANING: he took the handle and removed the axe from it.

1.     asokola umwele mucitubo, MEANING: he removed the blade of the knife from the handle.

2.     asokola umupeni mucipata, MEANING: he unsheathed the knife.

MEANING 2

to extract, pull out tooth.

Example of use

asokola meno ya Nsofu, MEANING: he pulled out the elephant's tusks.

MEANING 3

to decorticate, husk, strip off.

Example of use

1.     asokola umukwa, MEANING: he stripped off a slab of bark from the tree.

2.     sokola umupunga, MEANING: to decorticate rice.

MEANING 4

to drive out (away).

Example of use

1.      sokola umuntu, MEANING: to drive a man away from his village.

2.     sokola inama, MEANING: to drive game out of their lair.

3.     sokola isabi, MEANING: to drive fish into the nets.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

sakile sabi, tamfya.

MEANING 5

(REVERSIVE OF sokelesha) to bring people back out of hiding.

Example of use

1.      Kasokoleni abantu mumitanda mubalete kuno, MEANING: go and get those people who are hiding in the ‘mitanda’, and bring them here.

2.     Asokola umuntu uo basokeleshe, MEANING: he revealed the hiding place of a man they had hidden.

MEANING 6

to build a new village.

Example of use

waba nomulomo nga uusokolo mushi, MEANING: you have a glib tongue, like that of a man who starts a new village.

MEANING 7

to swarm.

Example of use

inshimu shasokola apakwikala, MEANING: the bees swarmed a new hive.

MEANING 8

to discover.

Example of use

Christopher Columbus asokwele America mu 1492, MEANING: Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

sanga. 

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE : sokolwa, sokwelwa. DERIVATIVE : musokoshi, misokolo.

APPLICATIVE:  sokwela.