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Kubwika

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Kubwika

Portuguese spellingKubuíka

verbnounintransitiveReviewed

Definitions

  1. 1
    To flatten; to bend to the ground: jimboua joso j'abuika ni luanha.
  2. 2
    To soften; to smooth; to ease: kiteta ki abuika
  3. 3
    • To end; to perish; to become extinct: muji uoso u abuika.
    • To cease to exist.
  4. 4
    noun
    Destruction; devastation.

Related words

KubetamaKuzulukaKukendelekaKubuikisaKúnyungaKumuemuetaKubetukaKubengala'a

In the same topic

Qualities & colours
  • Kubetumuka— To collapse at the base, to topple: lumbu lu abetumuka.
  • Kukotama— To be bent, hunched. | To become curved. | fig. To be mallea
  • Kufandujuka— To be disordered, crumpled, in disarray: ima ioso i afunduju
  • Kutakalala— To be stiff and upright: u atakalala xala u ala ku jipandu |
  • Kubluluka— To change colour; to faint; to turn pale.
  • Kubóla— To crease: -mukolo mu xingu.
  • Kuvunzuka— To be turbid, to be clouded: mêuha m'avunzuka
  • Kuxabalala— To be or to be flat: rizunu ria mu xabalala. To become depre
  • Kútanda— To distance; to send far away: a mu tande rikanga.
  • Kukoloka— To squat; to become lower; to shrink.
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