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Kinjúmbu

Noun class IIInounReviewedpage 139

Definitions

1
Mortification; punishment.
PT Mortificação; castigo.·FR Mortification; châtiment.

Noun class III

ki- / i-

Things, and all augmentatives.

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Emotion & feeling

Kuzangina — To torment.
Kunjúmba — To punish; to penalize; to make suffer.
Undanda — Temerity; audacity.
Dizába — Affront; disgrace.
Phaxi — Oppression; suffering; anguish. Deprivation, moral torture
Kukuatesa — To embarrass; to humiliate; to confuse.
Kínjima — Malevolent act. Sin. Inhumanity. Sinful act; cruelty.
Mále — Evil; ill; pazi.
Unzavá — Audacity; impudence; abuse.
Kutuába — To reproach; to censure. To criticize harshly.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 139 (left)

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