noun

Plural - amalambo

 MEANING 1.

A shelf on which meat is smoked and dried.

MEANING 2.

A revelry.

Example of use

-bosha (or sunga) ilambo means to digest or take a rest after a revelry.

 MEANING 3.

Sacrifice.

Example of use

Ilambo lya mfumu means the sacrifice of a fowl etc, offered to the spirit of the deceased chief.

MEANING 4.

Umushili we lambo means clay soil.

MEANING 5.

Ilambo lyakushinina fwaka means potash mixed with tobacco to give pungency.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

nungo

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTION.

Plural – amalambo

Diminutive – akalilambo

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

Ukupeelwa icintu ni pelambo 

LITERAL TRANSLATION  

to be given something is when the meat is on the shelf.

MEANING.

 The only way to get something is to be present in time of abundance.

PROVERBS.

Nil