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Kk [silent immediately before Pp]
k (infix) avoids hiatus in case of reduplicated adjectives beginning and ending with the same vowel eg inikini = darkish
ka (adv) when, (conj) if, (suffix) essential to words like acika means fire smoke or ituka means sun shine; (v) shine, yield eg Kaka ni ka 'ba sikokori ni. = Maize yields for people without teeth/ Good things happen to people who least need them. [Lugbara Proverb]
kaati (n) door
kabadi (n) cupboard
Kabaka (n) king of the Baganda eg Pira mu Kabaka vu. = Pira went to the Kabaka.
kabalagala (n) pancake
kabeji (n) cabbage (also kebeji, opimaopima) eg Naiti a'di kabeji. = Night cooked cabbage.
kabilo (n) sheep
kabilo ago (n) ram
kabilo aroni (n) ewe
kabilomva (n) lamb, young sheep (pronounced kabilo nva) eg Aburahamu ni kabilomva oce. = Abraham is rearing a lamb.
kadi (n) card
kadogo (n) young gun
kafetiria (n) cafeteria, cafe, coffee shop, restaurant, canteen eg Kajumba so pa Yuliasi ma kafetiria vu. = Kajumba is standing near Julius's Cafeteria.
kafiri (n) pagan, infidel, unbeliever
kafu (n) small hoe (also kafua)
kafuto (n) foam, lather
kai (adj) in vain; (n) custom of giving a bull for clan to eat or male paying a goat to the father of the female he has had sex with - similar to Genesis 38:16-17 (also kayi)]
kaiko (n) beans (in Terego dialect/ also osu)
kaiko burusu (n) peas
Kairo (n) Cairo, capital city of Egypt
Kaisari (n) Caesar (also Siza) eg Emi fe afa Kaisari ni MUNGU dri! = Give to GOD what belongs to Caesar!
kajo (n) calf (also kajoa)
Kajo Keji (n) place in South Sudan north of Moyo Town
kaka (n) maize, relative, brother in Swahili language eg Ali Salehu Kiba ni ma kaka. = Ali Saleh Kiba is my brother.
Kakaparaka (n) fictional suburb in Arua meaning "Maize stem" eg Bodhi ni mu yi we Kakaparaka-a. = Bodhi is going to swim in Kakaparaka.
kakau (adj) many eg Mikaeli Joridani nyo rekodi kakau. = Michael Jordan broke many records.
Kakau (n) Legion Demons
Kakuwa (n) Luo tribe north of Lugbara eg Andreasi Nyabire ni andra Kakuwa. = Andreas Nyabire was a Kakwa.
Kakuwati (n) Kakwa language
kala (n) side (also woko)
kala andraleruri (n) north
kala etu ni efuria (n) east side
kala etu ni 'deria (n) west side eg Amupaire enga kala etu ni 'deria. = Ampaire is from the west side.
kalaa (adv) aside; (n) metallic basin
kalafe (n) amount, number (of), population, mathematics (subject) eg Bodimasi azini Trisikuwaci kalafe la. = Bodmas and Trisquaci are reading mathematics.
kalamanda (n) sandals, slippers
kalama airi (n) pencil
kalamu (n) pen eg BiKi ni kalamu. = BiC is a pen.
kalasi (postp) on the side
kalati (n) side (also woko)
kalatusi (n) eucalyptus tree (also kalitusi)
kali (n) kraal; (counting) stick, bundles or tens of twenty to ninety eg 39 (kali na drini oromi) = thirty nine, XXXIX
kalikali (adj) sweet; (n) nguli
kalikaliwa (n) type of wild animal
kalitusi (n) eucalyptus
kalo (n) millet bread
kaloli (n) marabou stork
kalulu (n) election
Kambala (n) Capital City of Uganda (also Kamupala), Kampala, marketplace in Logiri Gombolola (of West Nile) eg Drijaru mu Kambala-a lu mba na. = Drijaru went to Kampala for only three months.