Verb- intransitive

MEANING

To suck the breast as young child oranimal.

OTHER RELATED WORDS /USES /SOURCES /FUNCTIONS.

Causative – onsha

Passive – onshiwa

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE /EXPRESSIONS

1.Ishi imbalala shalyonka nashituma bwino. MEANING: The groundnuts have sucked the sap from the soil, they are now hard

 

 

PROVERBS

PROVERB 1

Onka mwana wandi, ni uku lisakile.

Literal Translation

Suck my child,  this is the breast which is full.

Meaning:

Whenever I have enough, I give some of it away

 Bemba Meaning

Ine ndapeelai fintu kubanandi, lintu nkwete ifyakubapa. Nga taukwete teeti umupe iyo, kutiwaseme nga kapu abulamo ameenshi. Limbi abati: nsango kwete ngo yange nokupa, nangu filya batila: umukaka bakama kuyafyala.

 PROVERB 2

Ukukaana ilya musha kano uli na noko wakonkako.

LITERAL TRANSLATION. 

One can refuse a slave’s breast if one still has a mother to suck from

MEANING :

You can only be fussy if you’re sure of getting something better.

BEMBA MEANING: 

Ukukana ako washukila ninshi nukwata fimbi ificililepo.

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