Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • chibia;
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: pot
  • ink"omba;
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: large pot used for cooking meat / pot for cooking vegtables
  • impempa;
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: newly made pot, not yet burnt
  • bulongo"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: clay
  • kubumba"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: to work in clay, to form, to mould (as bricks and pots)
  • kubumbabumba"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: to roll into a ball/ turn a thing over in mind
  • kubumbuka"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: to be finished off smoothly (of pots)
  • kubumbula"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: to finish off pots by scraping with a shell,thus making them smooth
  • chik&ashi"
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: a piece of a broken pot, calabash, used to drink out of
  • chinga;
    Language code: M63 Language: ila
    Translation: a fragment of a broken pot