kubumba

How to say it

Meaning

to shape wet clay into bricks, pots, or other objects.

Good to know

also used figuratively for 'to be enough, sufficient for someone'; a distinct sense from the clay-working one.

Examples

• Nyokoruka arabumba ibinyoro vy'ibumba.Grandmother is shaping clay pots.
• Ntibumba amatafari make.They don't mold only a few bricks.
• Ese uzi kubumba ibumba?Do you know how to work clay?
• Ivyo kurya birambumba neza.That food is quite enough for me.