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aise (n) grass

aise geri (n) anus (also ezele, ojuu)

aisu (n) sauce

aita (n) faith (sometimes aitaa though might mean "in faith") 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"

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.

Ajua (n) great grandfather of the seven true Tara parishes in Maracha named after his seven grandchildren through Opodria (whose mother was given to him in Onduparaka) then Naye. Ajua is also the forefather of Aliba Ojepi clan in Aroi (Ayivu). In Ovisoni during his quest to find the source of Enyau River, Ajua paid brideprice for another wife who gave birth to Otu, the father of Vura after whom a clan and county are named in western Arua District eg Ajua ni a'bi mba Tara ni woro. = Ajua is the real ancestor for the whole of Tara.

aka (adj) big, large, enormous, grand, huge; (adv) deliberately, purposely, intentionally, knowingly; soften (said of fruits)

akaaka (adj) soft

akanya (n) ass, horse

akanyamva (n) colt, young donkey

akasi (adv) purposefully

akata (n) melting

akaza(ru) (adj) soft, weak, molten

akiki (n) pimple eg Ninisima ma akiki yo. = Ninsiima has no pimple.

akiri (n) skill, trick, innovation, technique, maneouvre

ako (prep) without

akpa (v) combine, add to, mix

akpaakpa (adv) combined, (n) mixture, combination

akpaku (n) chin

aku (n) home; (v) cover, close usually from above

aku ambo (n) city (literally big home, also siti), headquarters, place with a cathedral plus enough water for everyone, area that has over 500,000 dwellers and bigger than a municipality that has a lower limit of 100,000 inhabitants eg Kurisitofu mu Aku ambo Kinisasa-a! = Kristof has gone to Kinshasa City.

akua (adv) at home eg Azi ma vutia, Boyika ni mvi akua. = After work, Boyka goes home.

akufi (n) yeast (also aku fi) eg Mukati 'ba ede akufi si. = Bread is made using yeast.

akuku (n) rainstorm

akuma (n) white ants you drum for before they come out from the ground

akumanikuye (n, informal) generosity, selfless charity, givers never lack because karma comes back around

akuruma (n) bread made from smashed white ants eg Disimasi ni akuruma nya. = Dismas is eating akuruma bread.

akuza (adj) covered

ala (adj) clean, neat, smart, good (also alaru), nice, fine (maganda in Filipino); (n) paste from groundnuts or simsim (also odi); (v) put across, season food eg Yosa ala i'bi odi si. = Jhosa seasoned the fish with groundnut paste.

ala pititi (adj) very good

alaka (n) kind of grass used to make fire to catch or collect white ants (also galaka)

alakalaka (n) type of mushroom (also ngu idrika)

aise (n) grass

aise geri (n) anus (also ezele, ojuu)

aisu (n) sauce

aita (n) faith (sometimes aitaa though might mean "in faith") 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"

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.

Ajua (n) great grandfather of the seven true Tara parishes in Maracha named after his seven grandchildren through Opodria (whose mother was given to him in Onduparaka) then Naye. Ajua is also the forefather of Aliba Ojepi clan in Aroi (Ayivu). In Ovisoni during his quest to find the source of Enyau River, Ajua paid brideprice for another wife who gave birth to Otu, the father of Vura after whom a clan and county are named in western Arua District eg Ajua ni a'bi mba Tara ni woro. = Ajua is the real ancestor for the whole of Tara.

aka (adj) big, large, enormous, grand, huge; (adv) deliberately, purposely, intentionally, knowingly; soften (said of fruits)

akaaka (adj) soft

akanya (n) ass, horse

akanyamva (n) colt, young donkey

akasi (adv) purposefully

akata (n) melting

akaza(ru) (adj) soft, weak, molten

akiki (n) pimple eg Ninisima ma akiki yo. = Ninsiima has no pimple.

akiri (n) skill, trick, innovation, technique, maneouvre

ako (prep) without

akpa (v) combine, add to, mix

akpaakpa (adv) combined, (n) mixture, combination

akpaku (n) chin

aku (n) home; (v) cover, close usually from above

aku ambo (n) city (literally big home, also siti), headquarters, place with a cathedral plus enough water for everyone, area that has over 500,000 dwellers and bigger than a municipality that has a lower limit of 100,000 inhabitants eg Kurisitofu mu Aku ambo Kinisasa-a! = Kristof has gone to Kinshasa City.

akua (adv) at home eg Azi ma vutia, Boyika ni mvi akua. = After work, Boyka goes home.

akufi (n) yeast (also aku fi) eg Mukati 'ba ede akufi si. = Bread is made using yeast.

akuku (n) rainstorm

akuma (n) white ants you drum for before they come out from the ground

akumanikuye (n, informal) generosity, selfless charity, givers never lack because karma comes back around

akuruma (n) bread made from smashed white ants eg Disimasi ni akuruma nya. = Dismas is eating akuruma bread.

akuza (adj) covered

ala (adj) clean, neat, smart, good (also alaru), nice, fine (maganda in Filipino); (n) paste from groundnuts or simsim (also odi); (v) put across, season food eg Yosa ala i'bi odi si. = Jhosa seasoned the fish with groundnut paste.

ala pititi (adj) very good

alaka (n) kind of grass used to make fire to catch or collect white ants (also galaka)

alakalaka (n) type of mushroom (also ngu idrika)