Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • imbulunga/izimbulunga"
    Language: zulu Translation: globe, sphere, anything spherical (as ball, bead, cannon-ball -- not a disk) / stump of hand, stump end of arm (from which had has been amputated) / person with maimed hand or stump of arm
  • -bulunga"
    Language: zulu Translation: roll into a ball, make spherical, globular (as knob of kerrie, pull, or dumpling
  • umBulunga/imiBulunga"
    Language: zulu Translation: long, sausage-shaped roll (as of putty, clay for pot-making, a snake)
  • -Bulunga"
    Language: zulu Translation: roll into sausage shape (as head-ring, clay for pot-making, ...) / polish, smooth the surface
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