Verb transitve and intransive.

MEANING 2

To be overcast, on the point ofraining. Cfr. mibundo.

MEANING 3 

To bury a person.

Example of use

Nabamubunda, MEANING: They have buried him/her.

MEANING 4 

To pierce, drive into.

Example of use

Amubundamo ifumo, MEANING: He drove a spear intohim/her.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

–Lasa.

MEANING 5 

To take big mouthfuls of meat.

Example of use

Abunda fyonse mu kanwa, MEANING: He put everything in hismouth.

OTHER RELATEDWORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE. –Bundwa : Ubwato bwabundwa,MEANING: The canoe has sunk.

– Ubukulabwabundwa, MEANING: The garden is flooded.

 – Fisakofyabundwa ku mfula, MEANING: The branches are soaked by the rain.

APPLITIVE:–Bundila.                 COMPARE: Mibundo.

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

FIGURATIVE :twabundwa ku beni, MEANING: we are overwhelmed by visitors

– Mushi wabundwa, MEANING: the village ispolluted (as by the birth of twins) Also: to be polluted, i.e., useless,inefficient; said of the bag containing the ‘medicines’. It becomes so whenavocations  made dies during the process.