gukiranura

How to say it

Meaning

To step in between people who are fighting and separate them, or to help people in a dispute settle it and make peace.

Good to know

The people separated are the object: gukiranura abarwana, to separate those fighting. The reflexive kwikiranura is to settle one's own dispute with someone.

Examples

• Abaturanyi bahise baza gukiranura abasore babiri barwanaga.The neighbors came at once to separate the two young men who were fighting.
• Abunzi babakiranuye mu mahoro.The mediators settled their dispute peacefully.
• Ushaka kwikiranura n'umuturanyi agomba kwemera amakosa ye.Whoever wants to make peace with a neighbor must admit his own faults.

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