Verb transitive

MEANING

To prevent, hinder(in speech)

EXAMPLE OF USE

Nshile kala pantu mulesosa (or nshilemukala pa kweba) nomba lekeni nsosepo na ine cinonoMEANING I do not wish to prevent your speech, but let me put in a word myself.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRASTS: Cilima

EXAMPLE OF USE:

Nshilecilima pakulanda,

 MEANING I’m not cutting you short.

 

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE

1 Kukala lunshi pa mafi, MEANING to drive away the flies from the excreta

Said of a person who finding two individuals fighting over a thing, he discarded, takes back his property, and the people say; He drove away the flies from the muck.

2   inkalamo yakala lunshi pa mafi, MEANING the lion drove away the flies from the filth (when the lion seazes cattle over which people were fighting)

MEANING 2

Kala icilingo,

MEANING to take a short cut

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

cilinganya,Putwila