Verb transitive

MEANING

To seize, take hold of, arrest.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

Ikata

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/ SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE: nyatulwa 

APPLICATIVE: nyatwila.

Example of use

Bamunyatwilile pa mushi pa kampanda.  They arrested him at so and so’s village.

FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS/SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USES

Nil

PROVERBS

Nil