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ohelu (n) crested crane (also ohalu) |
ohorokoto (n) empty shell |
oi (n) kind of fleshy fish, (v) dry; hang, tether, tie eg a goat eg Oi alu ambamba! = Oi fish is very tasty! |
oiza (n) dry |
oja (v) change, exchange, translate, hatch, Igbo traditional flute used at funerals and other functions eg MUNGU le 'ba onzi ma oja asi. = GOD wants bad people to change the heart (repent). |
ojapi (n) converter (also agu ojapiri), translator, changer, hatcher, inverter, turner, transcriber eg Yerome ni ojapi. = Jerome is a translator. |
Ojapi (n) sub-clan and locality in Maracha, now Ulupi Parish, (previously within Tara then) Ajira Subcounty (Maracha East Constituency) where the 1991 Ojapi Air Raid happened around midday: Two Antonov planes from Sudan Air Force dropped about five bombs (according to Michael Afimani) on Friday 20th September 1991 killing Mary - Jackson Ozile's pregnant wife - as well as Charles Driwale in P3 and injuring several people (eg Isaac Azabo whose right leg was amputated and got a prosthesis, Philliam Debo who became the Chairperson of Victims, Fred Adriko, OPS Headteacher Jimmy Aluma's child, etc) plus destroying property (farms and houses belonging to Jackson Sadraka, Joel Otoma plus others), location of Ojapi Primary School (plus St. John Church of Uganda Uliapi and so on, villages in Ojapi Parish include Aliamu, Baria [where I originate from], Erivu, Nacara, Oliapi, Onayi and Palida), futuristic technology that converts Lugbara to English eg Ma enga Ojapi-a. = I'm from Ojapi. |
ojata (n) exchange, change (also ojaza), translation, shift eg Mi iji ojata! = Bring change! |
ojazaru (adj) (ex)changed |
oje (v) bought more than one thing (also ale) |
Ojepi (n) village in Aliba Ward of Aroi Subcounty in Ayivu County of Arua District |
ojeta (n) buying (also ajeta, aleza) |
ojeza (adj, n) buying |
oji (n) cave, (v) take, deliver; wash, bathe eg Hopu ni i-ma dribi oji salufa si. = Hope is washing her hair with sulphur. |
ojiata (n) baboon (also ojimata) |
ojio (n) go between, one sent on errands, apostles eg YESU pe ojio mudri drini iri (12) ma ti. = JESUS sent 12 apostles. |
Ojiodri (n) original name of Arua Hill before colonialists built a weather observation station house on top of it and a prison near where Arua Hill Primary is |
ojita (n) bath, taking, steering, deliverance |
ojizaru (adv) taken, delivered, washed, bathed |
ojo (n) issue, topic (also e'yo); heavy sauce made from beans and groundnut or simsim paste; mashed mutere mixed with cowpeas (also o'yo, ojogo); medical practitioner (also dakitari), local medicineman or woman, witchdoctor (also ojoo), grasshopper with purple shades; (v) talk (also jo in Aringa and Terego dialects) |
oju (n) twins (also eju) |
ojuruko (n) termite |
Ojurukombeni (n) place in Yumbe, means "The termite ate (literally licked) it" |
oka (adj) sour, (n) sourness; blacksmith, (v) become brownish with dirt eg Drabo ni oka. = Drabo is a blacksmith. |
okalamgba (adj) brown (also okazaru, okalamba) eg Andrapuru Guresi su viato okalamgba. = Aunt Grace wore brown shoes. |
okalamvu (n) factory |
okangali (adj) very bitter, sour |
okaritua (n) very sour colourless alcohol brewed from cassava, drunk while sitted in the sun |
okata (n) becoming brownish |
okaza (n) brown, brownish (also okazaru) eg Oketa ni okaza! = Oketa is brown! |
Okebu (n) ethnic group that specialised in iron smelting |
okelea (n) calabash |
oki (v) swallow |
oko (adv) first, ahead, leading; (v) fetch eg water; finish eg Fama redio oko Yuganda-a ri andra Kapito FM. = The first FM radio in Uganda was sometime back Capital FM. |
Okokoro (n) trading centre in Maracha on Koboko Highway after River Imve |
Okolo (n) Madi-Okollo, county south of Arua District, place that used to welcome travellers to Arua |
okondo (n) ostrich |
Okoro (n) county near the DR Congo Border, south of Vurra |
okpo (n) strength (pronounced opo) eg Samusoni ma okpo aga 'ba dria. = Samson's strength is more than everybody. |
Okpo (n) neighbourhood in the city of Geoje in South Gyeongsang Province (South Korea) |
okpo bolo vuri (n) oomph, sex drive, libido, erectile function, manly power (also okpo bolo driari), manyi ga kisajja in Luganda |
okpoa (n) gizzard |
okpojo (n) uterus |
okpolo (adj) old fashioned |
okporovu (n) pregnancy, pregnant person |
okporovuru (adj) pregnant |
okporu (adj) strong |
Okpova (n) open green space with natural stones acting as seats under the tamarind trees next to Arua Central Police Station. It's where Ayivu elders sat and resolved issues affecting them, carried out cleansing rituals and curses too |
oku (adj) old (also amba), ancient; (n) female, wife, woman; hat, crown, (v) gather, collect eg Sara ni oku. = Sarah is a woman. |
oku biza (n) wedding |
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