Verb transitive

MEANING 1

To work.

Example of use

Mwabombeni! MEANING: Greeting to one who is working.

MEANING2

To be damp, wet, soacked.

Example of use

Insalu yandi naibomba, MEANING: My cloth is wet.

OTHER RELATEDUSES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS WORDS/

APPLICATIVE: –Bombela.                   PASSIVE: - Bombwa.

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS /PHRASES /COLLOQUIALUSE/ EXPRESSIONS

Bomba nkaya milimo, MEANING: To scamp work. 

Bomba mwisha kasuba, MEANING: To work like a ‘time server’, slowly

PROVERBS

Akabomba akabiye ka munda.

Literal translation

The worker depends on the other worker in the tummy.

Meaning

A person can not work on empty stomach.

Bemba meaning.

Umuntu nga ali ne nsala teekuti akwate maka ya milimo.

Similar proverb 

Umuuba ukulila ni pa mifito.