Verb Transitive. Reversive of -soma and someka.

MEANING 1

to pull out, draw out.

Examples of use

1.     asomona ulusengo mu cisumpa, MEANING: he pulled out the horn he had stuck in his tuft of hair.

2.     somona isembe, MEANING: to pull out an axe embedded in wood.

3.     somona ifumo mwifumo lya nama, MEANING: to draw out a spear from the abdomen of an animal.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

sokomona.

MEANING 2

to find fault.

Examples of use

somona umuntu, MEANING: to find fault with a person continuously, to treat him as a scapegoat.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

sontola.

MEANING 3

to be possessed by an evil spirit.

alisomonwa ulya, taisosela, aba ne ciwa, MEANING: that man is possessed, he does not speak by himself, he has an evil spirit.

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIALUSE/EXPRESSIONS

pali icamusomonamo umutima,MEANING: some devil(ciwa) has turned his heart thus!

PASSIVE: somonwa.