nongo (inongo)
Noun

Plural - Malongo 

MEANING

A pot, a clay cooking pot

Example of use

MEANING: many big pots.


FIGURATIVESPECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

Nil

PROVERBS

Ukwaye nongo, ne miko

Literal translation

where the pot goes, there goes the paddle

Meaning

where the husband goes the wife too goes

Bemba meaning: 

Pantu batiila umwaume emutwe wa ng`anda, kanshi abantu ngabaupana uufwile ukusala uko bali nokwikala mwaume. Umwanakashi atemwa umukashi wena afwile ukukonka ukwasala umwaume; elutambi lwa cifyalilwa.


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