noun

Plural – amabende

MEANING

A mortar

EXAMPLE OF USE

Ni mwibende batwila amale na kalundwe MEANING, it is in a mortar that they pound millet and cassava.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

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 OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTION.

Diminutive – akalibende

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

Alitumpwa mwibende

LITERAL TRANSLATION  

He has been dipped in a mortar

MEANING

 He/she is mad.

 ETYMOLOGY: the people of the past pound ‘medicine’ in a mortar, and plunge the head of a madman, hence this saying.

Bakutumpile mwibende MEANING you are mad.

 PROVERBS.

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