Verb Intransitive.

MEANING

To be angry, fierce, wild, severe.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Kapanda alikalipa MEANING: Kapamba is very fierce.

MEANING 2

To be painful, to hurt, smart.

EXAMPLE OF USE

 Umutwe ulekalipa.MEANING: My head is aching.

MEANING 3

To be distressed, afflicted, grieved.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Wishi ati amone ifi, umutima walakalipa. MEANING: In seeing this, his father was grieved.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/ USES

Passive: -Kalipwa                                      

 Intensive - kalipisha

Applicative: Kalipila                                 

 Reflexive – Ikalifye

Reciprocative – Kalipilana                             

 Reduplicative – kalipa - kalipa

 

PROVERBS

Icikalipa, cumfwa umwine.

  LITERAL TRANSLATION: That which hurts, he who has a pain has a firsthand knowledge of it.

MEANING: Nobody can feel or think for somebody else. When you suffer tell somebody else about it so that he/she can help you.

  BEMBA MEANING: Umuntu nga alesosa ati ine ubucushi bwandi ni bwakuti na bwakuti, ninshi nifyo fine, mwe bambi nangu mulemona nga ubufi. Calola na mukuti nga waumfwa ubucushi ufwile wasosa bwino pa kuti bambi bamone amaka yakukwafwako.