Noun

MEANING

 A kind of millet, small, round reddish seed, the staple food of the aba-Bemba

Example of use

1.     Beele mukutanda amale

MEANING: 

They have gone to sow millet

2.     Amale ya misonso

MEANING: 

Millet not yet threshed

3.     Amale ya museke

MEANING: 

Threshed millet

The different kinds of millet:

Mwangwe (white, gives an early crop), amaleyakulu, ciwa fubu, kanconco, mutubila, katiyo, mabutila, nang'ombe, mbushi,macencete, cikalata, ciwamba, kalopa, kakombolwa

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

cifwifwi,cimbuka wa male, musangala, filimi