Lit Circle #2: Lexicographer

A bu: Well then/more or less/okay, fine
Ayi: The independence
Bakala: A hot pepper, a bumpy potato, and the male sexual organ.
Bakala mpandi: A good strong man
Baka veh: We don’t pay that.
Bambula
Bandika: Depending upon pronunciation means: To kill someone, to pinch back a plant, or to deflower a virgin.
Bandu: The littlest one on the bottom/the reason for everything(Ruth May's nickname)
Bangala: Depending on pronunciation means: Something precious and dear or the Poisonwood tree.
Batiza: Depending on pronunciation means: Baptism or else, to terrify.
Baza: Twins
Beene-beene: Anatole’s name for Leah, meaning: as true as truth can be.
Benduka: Crooked Walker/The giraffe with a Z-shaped crook in its neck. Also refers to, a fast-flying bird, the swallow with curved wings who darts crookedly quick through trees near the river.
Bikinda: Spirits of the dead.
Bilala: The wailing for the dead.
E-e: A term of agreement
Fyata: No money
Gree-grees: Evil eye fetishes that people wear around their necks to ward off evil curses and the like
Hantu: A place or time
Kakakaka: An infectious disease in which you defecate to death.
Kibaazu: To have a curse put on you
Kintu: All things besides man: animals, stones, and bottles etcetera.
Kukwela: Wife?
Kuntu: A quality of being: beautiful, hideous, lame, etcetera.
Lea: Nothing much
Leba: Fig Tree
Mangwansi: A type of bean.
Mbote: Hello/Goodbye
Muntu: Man/people (living or dead, born or not)
Muteete: A type of grass used as a form of dental hygiene
Mv’ula: A pale white termite that comes out after a rain
Mvundla: Rabbit
Ngangas: Evil eye fetishes
Nkisis: Evil eye fetishes that people wear around their necks to ward off evil curses and the like.
Nommo: The force that makes things live as what they are: man, animal, tree, etcetera. Also, word.
Nsongonya: Hoards of soldier ants that eat people and animals alive.
Ntu: (root) for all that is being here.
Pangne: A cloth wrap that the Congoles women wear.
Sala Mbote:
Umvundla: Jungle rabbit
Wenda Mbote:

1.“Mbote a-akento akwa Kilango. Benzika kooko.” this means:“Hey there, ladies of Kilanga. Why don’t you cut me some slack for a change.” (More or less)
2.Bi la ye bandu: this means: Why, why, why (more or less)
3.Ssap ot tuoba: this means:
4.Kituba, Lingala, Bembe, Kunyi, Vili, Ndingi, and the bleeding talking drums: Types of language or communication.
5.Il trompe son monde. this means: A bluff or front (in french)
6.Piggly Wiggly. This means: A market is or a supermarket usualy found in the Eastern half of the United States in Midwest, Southeast and East Coast regions.
7.Cumber, this means: to hamper or burden.
8.Presentiment: a knowledge of an usually negative event before it's occurence
9.Consecrate, this means: To bless or make holy.
10.Gunwale, this means:the top edge of a ship’s sides that forms a ledge.