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Kiswahili Vocabulary

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chimbera porcupinefish
chimbi cook
-chimbia
-chimbika
be eroded
  1. be dug
chimbo
hole
  1. trench
  2. mine
  3. pit
  4. ditch
  5. excavation
  6. home
  7. shaft
  8. dugout
  9. aperture
  10. orifice
  11. perforation
  12. opening
  13. entrenchment
-chimbua
dig out
  1. inv. of chimba
  2. dig something up
-chimbuka
stream
  1. appear
  2. spout
  3. pour
  4. come up
  5. be uprooted
chimbuko
mine
  1. pit
  2. ditch
  3. beginning
  4. excavation
  5. hole
  6. source
  7. start
  8. trench
  9. shaft
chimbule bird
-chimbuza
cause trouble
  1. cause misfortune
  2. make its appearance
-chimbwa be hoed
chimni ya kutolea moshi
chimvi
jinx
  1. medicine man
  2. troublemaker
  3. unlucky person
  4. ill-omened animal
-china
be delayed
  1. be late
  2. be too mature
  3. find no takers
  4. be too ripe
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china
raids
  1. china
china ya under
chindi squirrel
Chinese
chingamu
-chingirisha pour off
chingirisho
Chingis Khan
chini
down
  1. below
  2. underneath
  3. under
  4. on the ground
  5. low
  6. bottom
  7. downstairs
  8. undesirable
  9. nearby
  10. ground
  11. floor
  12. close to
  13. genitals
  14. lower part
  15. on foot
  16. underside
  17. at the bottom
  18. at the feet
  19. deep
  20. orangeade
  21. genital
  22. belowstairs
  23. inferior
  24. down cellar
  25. humble
  26. undergird
chini chini
low
  1. secretly
chini kabisa
chini (kwa) chini on the sly
chini kwa chini
underground
  1. very far below
  2. secretly
chini mbeleni
chini ya
under
  1. below
  2. beneath
  3. underneath
chini ya miaka kumi na nani hawaruhusiwi no one under eighteen
chini ya miguu ya mtu
chini ya mkanda below the belt
chini ya tumbo
low blow
  1. blow below the belt
  2. below the belt
  3. punch below the belt
-chinja
slaughter
  1. slay
  2. cut the throat
  3. sacrifice
  4. kill
chinja slaughter
chinjaji butcher
chinja maji brittle star
chinjio abattoir
chinjo
slaughter
  1. bloodshed
  2. carnage
  3. massacre
  4. blood-letting
chinjoni
cutting edge
  1. slaughtering place
-chinjwa be slaughtered
Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe
chinusi
cramp
  1. water-sprite
  2. sea-monster
  3. water spirit
-chinyanga
chinyango piece of meat
chipu chip
-chipua
grow
  1. bud
  2. sprout
chipua sprout
-chipua chipukizi
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