Verb Transitive

MEANING 1

Tobe muddy (of water).

Example of use

1.     Ameenshi nafundauka, MEANING:The water is muddy.

2.     Ubwalwa nabufundaukila, MEANING:  The beer is thick;

MEANING 2

Tobe mixed, muddled up (of persons affairs).

Example of use

Umulandu naufundaukila, MEANING: The case is muddledup.

SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

–Fulungana.

MEANING 3

 To wade, splash in mud, water.

Example of use

1.     Afundauka mu meenshi akasuba konse,MEANING: He splashed in water all day long.

2.     –Ameenshi nayafundaukila, MEANING: Thewater is muddy;

MEANING 4

Totrample on the same spot.

Example of use

–Fundauka pamopene, MEANING: To trampleon the same spot. (Said of one who, having lost his way^, does notknow where to go).

RELATEDWORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS

APPLICATIVE:–Fundaukila.

FIGURATIVESPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS

FIGURATIVE–Fundaukapamopene mu kusoma,

MEANING:To read the same passage in a book over and over.

1.    Fundaukamukwimba pali ulu ulwimbo,MEANING: To repeat the same songover and over again.

2.    Fundaukilamumulandu umowine,MEANING: To be always harping on thesame string, (repeating the same story) .

3.    Basangenkalamo kumumana eko ilefunduakila,  MEANING: They found the lion by the river,that’s the place it is frequenting these days.

PROVERBS

Nil.