noun

MEANING.

Misery, distress, poverty,

EXAMPLE OF USE.

Lisha umuntu akalanda,MEANING To hurt someone until he cries.

 

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

Nafwila akalanda (or nafwila mbolela kalanda),MEANING I’m dying of distress and no one to help me.