Verb Transitive and Intransitive

MEANING

To make rough mounds in garden.

Example of use

Abalumendo balesapike mputa mwibala, MEANING: The boys are making rough mounds in the garden.

DERIVATIVE: cisapi.

FIGURATIVE: sketch

Example of use:

sapika fye MEANING to start out a work, to shape out a work roughly.

umulandu talapwa ukulubulula, asapika fye MEANING he has not yet finished explaining his case, he has only given a rough sketch of it.

MEANING2

To search for, as lost person.

Example of use

Bakapokola balemusapika mu mpanga, mu fimpuusa, mu mushi MEANING: The Police are searching for him or her in the forest, in the undergrowth, in the village.

sapike cintu ulufishe MEANING: to search or rummage for an item you have lost.

sapike nshila MEANING: To look carefully for an overgrown path.

inshila ino yakusapika fye MEANING: This path is not well marked. One has to look for it very carefully.

imiti yakusapika fye MEANING: (LITERALLY) trees (for the fitemene) which have to be looked for over a wide area due to scarcity.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES

PASSIVE: sapikwa.

Example of use: 

imputa nashisapikwa MEANING the mounds have been roughly made(or have been started).

umuntu ulubile nasapikwa MEANING the person who was lost was searched for.

APPLICATIVE: sapikila (PASSIVE -sapikilwa).

Example of use: 

nasapikilwe mputa MEANING they have started making my mounds. 

INTENSIVE : sapikisha.