noun

MEANING

A great quantity or number, abundance.

Example of use

1. Abantu ubwingi, MEANING:  A great number of people.

2. Nama ubwingi, MEANING: Many animals.

3. Filyo ubwingi uno mwaka, MEANING: There is a great abundance of food this year.

4. Tufume kubwingi, MEANING: let us get out of the crowd.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

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FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

Ubwingi busuma bwabipilafye ukushinka umunani MEANING: a crowd of people is good (to help one out), but it is bad when it comes to eating of relish.

Ubwingi busuma, nasanga mukashi na kafumo LITERAL TRANSLATION It is good to have many neighbours; I have found my wife with a full stomach MEANING. they looked after her in my absence).

 

PROVERBS

PROVERB 1

Ubwingi bwampashi lintu shili pamo.

Literal translation

The ants (mpashi) are plentiful when they are together.

Meaning

Unity is strength; a single ant is helpless, but together they are fierce.

Bemba meaning

Ubukankala bwamuntu panonse kwampana na banankwe mu milimo isuma. Nga mwayampana pamo mu milimo na mu mafya, abalwani kuti bal mutina uku musansa.

 

PROVERB 2

Ubwingi bwanshimu bwashimishe umulilo.

Literal translation

The abundance of bees put the fire out.

Meaning

Sometimes it is not good to be numerous.

Bemba meaning

Nga mwafulisha kuti ne caciba no kuwama caonaika.

Similar proverbs

Bamukolwe nga bafula tabuca bwangu.

 

 

PROVERB 3

Uwapata ubwingi aliipata.

Literal translation

He or she who hates the crowd hates oneself.

Meaning

One cannot live by oneself.

Bemba meaning

Umuntu teeti ekale eka kuti afilwa. Fwe bantu, bantu banensu ebatutungilila.

 

 

PROVERB 4

Mu bwingi e muli mfwa yobe.

Literal translation

From the crowd will come your death.

Meaning

Do not think that you will be saved by being lost in the crowd.

Bemba meaning

Nga nacikubinga nangu upeke mwibumba shani kuti cakusanga; ibumba teeti likupokololeko nakalya.

Similar proverb

Umwaka ushili obe taucilwa ibaka

 

 

PROVERB 5

Ukufuma pa bwingi, kukaka pa menso.

Literal translation

To get out of a crowd you must overlook manners.

Meaning

Be brave and do not always follow the crowd.

Bemba meaning

Ngolefwaya ukuya ukufuma pa bwingi tekwesha ukulolesha abantu: kwimafye walaya. Napakucita icintu kuti washipafye pakucibomba.