Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • mbumbi"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: potter
  • kubumba"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: to fashion
  • mpuki/mapuki
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: pot or vessel (of metal, earthenware or any substance), usually a cooking-pot (but is used of a pot or receptacle of almost any descripition)
  • buchimba/machimba"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: large type of earthenware pot or pitcher
  • katenda/tutenda"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: smaller type of earthen pitcher
  • mwipika/mipika"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: porridge pot, vessel in which the nshima is cooked
  • mpemba"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: white clay used for whitening the walls of huts, etc., also as a white paint in colouring clay models; also used of lime
  • mutumwa/mitumwa"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: vessel suitable for carrying a supply of drinking water, a bottle, a water sack
  • muchiwa/michiwa"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: plate, dish, basin, cup; generic name applied to any shallow utensil
  • mbali"
    Language code: L41 Language: kaonde
    Translation: plate
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