kuma

How to say it

Meaning

to become dry, losing moisture, especially by fire or sun.

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often used of crops such as maize or grain drying in the sun or over a fire; intransitive.

Examples

• Ibigori birakuma ku zuba.The maize is drying in the sun.
• Ese imyenda irakuma vuba iyi minsi?Do clothes dry quickly these days?
• Ntabwo ibiti bikuma mu gihe cy'imvura.Wood does not dry during the rainy season.
• Ibishyimbo bizakuma mu byumweru bibiri.The beans will dry in two weeks.

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