Verb Transitive

MEANING 1

Tounstitch hem.

Example of use

–Fukulule nsalu, MEANING: To unstitch hemof cloth.

MEANING 2

 To cause a sore, to revive, to recall.

Example of use

Fukulule cilonda, MEANING: To cause a sore tobreak out anew.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

–Ibulula.

–fukululo mulandu,

MEANING:To revive a case.

fukululefyakale, MEANING: To recall old stories,old cases.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST. –tubulula.

MEANING 3

 To take an extravagant measure of something.

Example of use

Fukulula amale mu butala,MEANING: To take an extravagantmeasure of millet out of the grain bin.

MEANING 4

 To renew, etc., as in the followingEXPRESSIONS.

Example of use

1.     –Fukulula inembo,MEANING:  To renew a worn out tattoo.

2.     Fukulula inshila,MEANING:To renew an old path.

3.     Fukulule mputa,MEANING: To break up old mounds and make new ones.

4.     Fukulula amale mu bukula batandile uyumwaka, MEANING: To sow a second crop of millet in thesame field.

1.     Fukulula bucibusa,MEANING: To renew friendship.

2.     Fukulula umuntu,MEANING:  To reappoint a man to hisformer employment.

3.     Fukulula ubupalu,MEANING: To return to the hunting trade or to be lucky again in hunting.

4.     Fukulula icupo,MEANING:  To return to matrimonial life.

MEANING 5(Verb intransitive)

Tofall back into an old habit.

Example of use

1.     Apenelekauyumusango,kabiliafukululamo, MEANING: He nearly got rid of thathabit, but fell back into it again.

2.     Ati: kamfukulule,MEANING:He said: “Let me go back there again”

3.     Afukululakulupwa uko abalile ukuupila,MEANING: He remarriedin the same family.

RELATEDWORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

PASSIVE:– Fukululwa :Mputa shafukululwa,

MEANING:The mounds were made over again.

APPLICATIVE:–Fukululwila.

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

Nil.

PROVERBS

Nil.