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alanda (n) bread made from small white ants (also amboroko)
alapapa (n) butterfly
alata (n) health, cleanliness, smartness, neatness
alatararu (adj) healthy, smart, neat, clean, good, holy eg Opi ADROU okpo dria beri, alatararu, alatararu, alatararu, ERI ndra indi ERI curu'do ci, vini ngapi emupiri-i! = Holy, holy, holy, LORD GOD Almighty WHO was and is and is to come!
ale (n) love, liking (also leta); stomach, belly, inside (also aleni); (v) exchange eg A'duni nga ama awa ale MUNGU ni be ni? = What will separate us from the love of GOD?
ale azoza (n) stomach ache, stomach pain
ale bile (n) stomach ulcer eg Ropopo Vino engazu payipayi aro aapi yi alea o'du towi ni ale bile ati. = Ropopo Wine from raw pawpaws that have stayed in water for five days can heal stomach ulcers.
ale ngurufu (n) potbell
alea (adj) pregnant, (prep) inside, in the stomach
Alemani (n) Germany (also Girimani)
ali (adj) short (also alia, aliaru), (n) adultery (also ali 'baza), brideprice, crime, plant with thorns, far away (also re), deep; (v) pass by, cut
aliasi (adv) in short
Aliba (n) ward or parish of Aroi Subcounty in Ayivu County of Arua District
ali'bo (n) partridge
Alifa azini Omega (n) Alpha & Omega
alifu (n) thousand
Alikua (n) place in Maracha where Belgians built a small pyramid in the 1920s, two Belgian officers Captain Von Kirkhoven (probably Willem Frans Van Kerckhoven?) and M. de Laages are buried under the fort somewhere next to the road between Nyadri and Katrini
alimva (v) bastard, illegitimate child
alio (n) poverty; poor person eg Alio le ma nde. = Poverty wants to defeat me.
Alioma (n) name given when family is in poverty or groom's family is poor (also Alioru, Alio)
alioru (adj) poor
alipi (n) friend (also agoyi) eg Sisilia ni ma alipi! = Cecilia is my friend!
aliria (n) virgin eg YESU ma andri ni andra aliria. = JESUS's mother was (sometime back) a virgin.
alitara (n) altar
aliza (n) cut (sth)
alo (n) peg for tethering animals
aloalo (adj) loose, not tightly fixed
alofe (n) bridge (also olufe)
alota (n) loosening
aloza (adj) loosened
alu (n) one, singular; mole, grasscutter; taste, sweetness (also aluta); (v) peep
alu alu (adj) tasty; one by one
alu toko (adj) one only
alugbe (n) unhatched egg
aluma (n) curse
Alungaru (n) old woman in Lugbara mythology who helped Oli trace Kibira's spear
Aluru (n) Luo tribe south of Lugbara; Lugbara dialect in DR Congo
aluruga (n) south direction, because of proximity to Alur People (also baria)
Aluruti (n) Alur language
alutukubi (n) creeping greens
aluza(ru) (adj) tasty eg Olanya kini: Rolekisi capati ni aluza! = Olanya said: Rollex chapati is tasty!
ama (pron) we, us; (v) assess, judge, feel
Amadingo (n) welfare system where rich Lugbara take care of poor relatives
amamu (n) pigeon
amata (n) judgement (also amaza)
amba (adj) old, grown (n) leader (also ambo, dricere) eg Oripa dra eli 2008 si de eri amba. = Oripa died in 2008 when she was old.
ambasada (n) ambassador
Ambeko (n) place between Mvara, Barifa, Oluko and Muni
ambi (n) cold, (v) make cold
ambiambi (adj) cold eg Angu ambiambi Kigezi-a! = The place is cold in Kigezi!