Kamusi ya Kiswahili
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/'tombo/
English: A nipple; a teat.
Ng'ombe ana maziwa mengi kwenye tombo.
The cow has a lot of milk in its teats.
/'tombo/
English: A type of small, brown bird of the quail family.
Tombo ni ndege anayepatikana mashambani.
The quail is a bird commonly found in fields.
/tom'bola/
English: A lottery; a raffle.
Alishinda zawadi kwenye tombola.
He won a prize in the raffle.
/tom'boo/
English: See tombo².
Angalia neno tombo² kwa maana.
See the word tombo² for the meaning.
/tom'boro/
English: See tombo².
Neno hili lina maana sawa na tombo².
This word has the same meaning as tombo².
/tom'boʋu/
English: Bad breath; halitosis.
Anasumbuliwa na tatizo la tombovu.
He suffers from bad breath.
/tom'boʋu/
English: Insulting or idle talk; indecent words.
Usitumie maneno ya tombovu mbele ya watoto.
Don't use indecent words in front of children.
/to'mea/
English: To plaster a wall with mortar or daub it with mud or cow dung.
Waliomea ukuta kwa udongo.
They plastered the wall with mud.
/tome'sha/
English: To command an animal (dog, cat) to catch another creature.
Alitomesha mbwa kumkimbiza paka.
He commanded the dog to chase the cat.
/tomo'a/
English: To break through or penetrate a place; to deflower a woman.
Mshale ulitomoa ukuta.
The arrow pierced through the wall.
/'tomo/
English: A hole; an aperture.
Kuna tomo kubwa ardhini karibu na nyumba.
There's a big hole in the ground near the house.
/'tomo/
English: See kurugo (a large basket).
Angalia neno kurugo kwa maana.
See the word kurugo for the meaning.
/tomo'grafu/
English: A tomography machine (for X-rays).
Wamepata tomografu mpya hospitalini.
The hospital has acquired a new tomography machine.
/tomo'gramu/
English: An X-ray image taken by a tomograph.
Daktari aliangalia tomogramu ya ubongo wake.
The doctor examined his brain X-ray image.
/to'moko/
English: A soursop fruit (graviola).
Tomoko lina ladha tamu na siki kidogo.
The soursop fruit has a sweet and slightly sour taste.
/to'mondo/
English: A type of fruit similar to a tonga fruit.
Walivuna matomondo kutoka kwenye miti.
They harvested tomondo fruits from the trees.
/to'mondo/
English: A hippopotamus.
Tomondo alionekana karibu na mto.
A hippopotamus was seen near the river.
/tomo'tomo/
English: A type of bird with black feathers and white stripes, a long neck, and a long beak.
Tomotomo walionekana wakiruka juu ya mto.
The tomotomo birds were seen flying over the river.
/to'myara/
English: A word for a person with an unattractive physique.
Watu walimcheka tomyara huyo kwa utani.
People joked about that person's awkward physique.
/to'na/
English: To drip; to leak slowly.
Maji yanatona kutoka kwenye paa.
Water is dripping slowly from the roof.
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