Words and Phrases defining housing and habitations in Lucazi

Words or phrases defining housing, habitations, and living quarters

1. Limbo = village or a settlement comprising a group of houses.
2. Membo (plural) = villages.
3. Hembo = one's village or one’s place of residence.
4. Kuimbo = Home, or one's own place of origin.
5. Mbaka = town.
6. Mavumba = suburbs.
7. Ndzivo = house or a building that serves as a living quarter; or any building in which something is housed.
8. Zindzivo (plural) = houses or buildings.
9. Ndzivo ya masiko = Parliament.
10. Ndzivo ya vangendzi = guesthouse, inn
11. Ndzivo ya ku tulila vangendzi = lodge, guesthouse
12. Vutulilo = lodging place or guesthouse.
13. Ndzivo ya vipako = warehouse.
14. Ndzivo ya vitua = armoury.
15. Mbalaka = tent.
16. Njanena = window.
17. Vindulu = glass.
18. Ndopi = brick.
19. Zindopi = bricks.
20. Tunga = build or construct.
21. Tungulula = rebuild or reconstruct.
22. Civumbe = wall.
23. Vivumbe (plural) = walls.
24. Mbango = corner.
25. Zimbango (plural) = corners.
26. Liteya = tile or roofing tile.
27. Mateya (plural) = tiles.
28. Cimbimbi = porch or a sheltered area at the entrance to a building.
29. Zindondelo = stairs or a set of fixed steps leading from one floor of a building to another
30. Ndova = plaster.
31. Ku salimba = to plaster.
32. Muandzi = crack.
33. Miandzi (plural) = cracks.
34. Mbelo = gate or any opening in a fence with a movable barrier.
35. Zimbelo (plural) = gates.
36. Ngundu = Abandoned village or desolate place.
37. Zingundu (plural) = abandoned villages or desolate places.
38. Vukoselo = bedroom or a place where you sleep.
39. Honda = a room or chamber, especially a bedroom.
40. Zihonda (plural) = rooms or chambers.

Thatched shelters vocabulary

1. Tusongua = housetop.
2. Mavula = foundation.
3. Ku masima = base or bottom.
4. Livaya = plank.
5. Mavaya (plural) = planks or long flat pieces of timber or wood.
6. Mikambo = beams.
7. Masoko = rafters; these are the sloping pieces of poles or wood that support a roof.
8. Zimbandze = purlins.
9. Ziondzi = fibre gins or threads.
10. Mukatango = a bundle or a set of purlins tied or wrapped up together.
11. Muila ua katengo = elephant grass.
12. Muila ua kangungu = thatching grass.
13. Lisinde = hussock or clump of grass.
14. Ku kangala = to tie together purlins into a strong bundle.

1. Zika = close up or to close an opening.
2. Zikuka = come out of the place into which it was put.
3. Zikika = put into an opening so as to close it.
4. Tsakununa = dislodge or pluck out.
5. Henga = be crooked or bend.
6. Hengalala = be slightly crooked or bend.
7. Olola = stretch out.

Types of thatched shelters

1. Ndzango = a thatched structure built in the centre of the village and serves as the meeting place of all men.
2. Ntsenge = kitchen.
3. Cisete = barn.
4. Cilombo = camp.
5. Ntsingi = camp hut.
6. Mbalanda = pavilion/shelter.
7. Vipundo = temporary storage structures.
8. Cikoloyi = permanent storage structure.
9. Cimpaka = fortress.
10. Citungu =

The parts of a hinged door

1. Lipito = door; any swinging or sliding barrier at the entrance to a building or room.
2. Mapito (plural)
3. Miteka = hinges.
4. Cikolo = doorway or an entrance with a door; the opening that a door closes especially an entrance into a building or room.
5. Kacikolo or kakolo (diminutive) = a small doorway.
6. Ngendzo = bell.
7. Mpindziko = lock or mortice lock.
8. Sapi = Key.
9. Muvelenge = padlock/latch/bar.
10. Cipamba = lintel.
11. Civuliko = doorpost.

1. Tota or kutota = knock or to knock.
2. Ngongota or kungongota = knock/to knock.
3. Ingila = go in.
4. Kovela = enter in.
5. Tuhuka = go out.
6. Fuma = go out of or come out.
7. Sokoka = come out of that which is closed.
8. Soka = Shut.
9. Sokelela = shut permanently.
10. Sokeka = place or shut in.
11. Sokolola = Open.
12. Pata = Bar in.
13. Pateka = Put into that which will hold it.
14. Patuka = come out of that in which it is barred.