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Kúria

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Kúria

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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    To eat.
  2. 2
    To be colourful, vivid, tinted: jimbumbaj'ári.
  3. 3
    To swindle; to deceive; to delude.
    Examples
    • 💬kúriamatukuta
  4. 4
    verbtransitive
    To kill.
    Examples
    • 💬kúriamuenhu ua mutu
  5. 5
    noun
    Food.
    Examples
    • 💬kúriaku alandula o ngombo
  6. 6
    Christmas Eve supper; supper.
    Examples
    • 💬kúriakua usuku
  7. 7
    Ceremony consisting of the offering, late at night, of food to the souls of the dead.
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