Verb Intransitive.

MEANING 1:

To be hot, warm.

EXAMPLE OF USE

1.  Kaba see! MEANING To be very hot or warm.

2 Umubili wakaba see! MEANING His body is very hot. (One with fever).

3 Amenshi yakaba icifulefule. MEANING The water is tepid, lukewarm.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Umushi utaleele na tondolo kwati tamwaba baantu. MEANING The village is quite as though no human being resides there.

MEANING 2:

To be fat, excellent, tasty, of food.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Ii inama naikaba. MEANING This meat is fat (Excellent).

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

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MEANING 3

To be overworked.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Walikaba weo bapisha libili-libili. MEANING You are really overworked, the way they make you run here and there.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

Applicative: -Kabila

Intensive – kabisha

Causative – kafya

Passive – kafiwa

Completion – kabilila

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS.

1 Bamuuma apa kabile afwa. MEANING They hit him on the soft spot and he died.

2 Kaba ibele. MEANING To have a warm breast. (Said of a woman who has many children but is unable to win their affection

3Kwaba shani uko ufumine? MEANING How are things where you come from?

4Kwakaba! Or (Kwakaba nase!). MEANING Things are hot over there; they are having a real row !

PROVERBS

Icikabile ecitalele, icitalele ecikabile.

  LITERAL TRANSLATION.What was hot became cold, what was cold became hot.

MEANING: Nothing is permanent in this world, be prepared for change and reversal of fortune.

  BEMBA MEANING: Nga wamona icintu cabipisha, shipikisha ninshi impela ili mupeepi calapwa nangu ukupita. Ubwafya nangu inkondo ngayayanshya ninshi yalapita, teeka umutima na ukushipa, iciboote ciisa panuma yankondo.

Amacushi na insasa fyonse filapita fyaya na inshiku shashaala shileya! Bati na ukuti inshiku ishi, teeshaleelo.