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agu ageitepiri (n) guard, sentry, security personnel (also ageitepi)
Agu Aipiri (n) Prayer Officer
agu angu onepi (n) tourist
agu ase lipiri (n) grasscutter; grasscutters eg WENGA ni amuti agu ase lipi Wesiti Nailu-a ri yi ni. = WENGA is the association for grasscutters in West Nile.
agu azoru (n) patient; patients
agu bulogu sipiri (n) blogger (also buloga)
agu 'ba ni oni tu (n) famous person, celebrity; famous people
agu e'bi okupi (n) fisherman eg Yaremi ni agu e'bi okupi. = Jaremy is a fisherman.
agu e'yo dapiri (n) moderator, presenter (also agu odapiri)
agu motoka onzupi (n) driver (also dere'ba, dereva)
agu mupira tupi (n) footballer eg Lugemuwa ni agu mupira tupi Buloku Owunazi ni. = Lugemwa is a footballer for Block Owners.
agu mupira vupi (n) football referee
agule (n) transmasculine
agupi (n) male, man, husband, husbank; males, husbands, men eg Kintu ni Nambi ma agupi. = Kintu is Nambi's husband.
agupia (adv) (of women) married to a man, lad
agupiamva (n) boy, lad, male child, young man eg Ondia, Draru ma adri, ni agupiamva. = Ondia, Draru's brother, is a boy.
agupianzi (n) boys, male children eg Agupianzi mu Wobulenzi-a. = The boys went to Wobulenzi.
agurikeca (n) agriculture (also azi amvu ni, amvu 'yaza)
Agusito (n) male-given name, August (8th month of the year) (also Eli ma mba arori)
Aguta (n) male-given name
aguwara (n) agwara, dance by the Lugbara and Kebu
Aguwara Pari (n) Agwara Field, venue for agwara performances (Used to be where High Court, Orasea and Shell Petrol in Sambia are located)
Aguwoko (n) Agwok, trading centre after Nebbi on the Pakwach Highway
ai (n) salt (archaic a'i); (v) trap with rope or string, get caught, accept, respond, admit, affirm, pray; ask, beg, receive, welcome eg Rubeni ni mu MUNGU ai Dominioni Tiheta-a. = Reuben is going to pray to GOD at the Dominion Theatre.
Aiivu (n) subcounty near Maracha - south of Yivu and Omugo, north of Katrini
Aiko (n) penname of a committed Black Ugandan Artist who dropped out the letter Y from his baptism surname (Ayikobua) at 6 years of age (Can also mean "No Artificial Intelligence", "no salt" or "trapping salt"), shortened from Ayiko (rarely Aiiko), Japanese singer, Lady Aiko (Artist), American musician also known as Jhene Efuru Chilombo, Ugandan lawyer, Scandinavian male-given name also used in Northern Germany as a variation of Eike or Ekke [Blade], Chinese boy-name, Japanese female-given name meaning "Love child", "Little Love" or "Child who will be loved", mountain in Finland eg Aiko Japani-a ngo "Kisshug". = Aiko in Japan sang "Kisshug".
aise (n) grass
aise geri (n) anus (also ezele, ojuu)
aisu (n) sauce
aita (n) admittance, faith, affirmation (also aiza) eg Aita ma mba oni le, ma mba kongolo. Ka mba oni le, ATA ni ovu ayikosi! = Faith should harden like a stone. If it's hard like a stone, then FATHER will be happy!
aitipa (n) sun-wivered salty leaves burnt to create salt after mixing the ash with water and sieving through a container
aiza (n) prayers, fellowship, affirmation, acceptance, reply, admittance; begging, receiving
aizu (v) beseech
Ajai (n) game reserve east of Arua City on Rhino Camp Road, used to be famous for the endangered white rhino, Most Powerful Chief in Madi Okollo history who had 100 wives
Ajara (n) suburb or parish in Ayivu north of Manibe on Koboko Highway after Enyau River, near Omi
aje (adv) yesterday; (n) buying, cost, value (also ajeni), price; traditional marriage where a groom pays one cow for the bride plus extra cows depending on number of children to be born, transfer of wealth between two families so that a male from one plus a female from the other can produce children, give away, kwanjula (also ajeta) eg Ndri ma aje andra Yuganda ma Silingi 50,000 eli 2017 si. = The price of a goat was 50,000 Ugandan Shillings in 2017.
aje koko (adj) free, priceless, cheap eg buku aje koko = free book
aje manyaka (n) small price (also o'boloko aje)
Ajekuru (n) female-given name meaning "They have not paid anything for me"
Ajenitina (n) Argentina eg Tomi Hikisi mu Ajenitina-a. = Tommy Hicks went to Argentina.
ajeru (n) expensive, dear, costly (also ajesi) eg E nga azi pere afa ajeru ni ecazu ajekoko. = Work until expensive things become cheap.
aji (n) taste, flavour, blessing (drileba), luck; eagle
aji di (v) defame, cause to lose interest, dilute taste, spoil name or reputation, pour mud on, scorn
Ajia (n) subcounty south of Oluko, north of Arivu eg Alani ma avu la Ajia-a. = Allan's corpse rested in Ajia.
ajiko (n) pot for preparing millet flour; tastelessness (also ajiyo)
Ajikoro (n) place in Maracha
ajira (n) beans with skin removed and mixed with groundnut paste plus mundrokole greens (also loperete), almost like firinda from western Uganda
Ajira (n) marketplace in Maracha East Constituency, subcounty that was formed from Tara, gombolola where the Ojapi Air Raid happened
ajiru (adj) tasty, flavoured; blessed (also drilebaru), lucky eg Harieti ni ajiru. = Harriet is blessed.
aju (n) spear, javelin; (v) insult using obscene words eg Saka ma aju aliaru. = Shaka's spear is short.