Verb Intransitive.

MEANING.

To be thick, tocongeal, clot, become hard (of anything liquid).

Example of use.

Ilini lyatikama, MEANING the egg is boiled hard.

OTHER RELATEDWORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS.

Applicative: -tikamina:

Ico ninkukana eco wantikamina! MEANING because I refused your demand, you look sourlyat me!

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS.

Verbintransitive (figurative): to look crossly, sourly at, to be angry with, as onewho is denied something.

Example of use.

Wantikama. Waba nga weo nakaaana, MEANING you look sourly at me, as if I had refusedwhat you desire.

Also to envy: wantikama pa fyuma fyandi, MEANING youenvy me because I have riches.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

fimbila.