umukeno

How to say it

Meaning

extreme poverty, more severe than ordinary want.

Good to know

emphasizes a harsher degree of destitution than the more common ubukene 'poverty'.

Examples

• Umuryango we wari mu mukeno mubi.His family was in dire poverty.
• Umukeno wabateye kwimuka baaje mu mujyi.Severe poverty drove them to move to the city.
• Ese koko bari mu mukeno nk'uko babivuga?Were they really in such deep poverty, as people say?

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