Noun.

MEANING.

Grain bin, store house for corn, madewith wattle and daub, usually cylindrical.

Example of use.

1.     -Tutila amale mubutala, MEANING:  To store millet inthe grain bin.

2.      –Bansa amale mu butala, MEANING: To takeout the necessary quantity of grain from the bin.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS.

Augmentative: citala; Diminutive:katala

FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIALUSE/EXPRESSIONS.

FIGURATIVE: Ubutalamumino wa lusato, LITERALTRANSLATION: a grain bin is like the gullet of the python. MEANING Thegrain bin is larger than it looks

PROVERBS.

Citala munshonda:umwine butala ashala amapampa.

 

Literal translation