kulaza

How to say it

Meaning

To make someone lie down or sleep, such as a child put to bed; used of a hospital it means to admit patients, and of a hotel, to put guests up for the night.

Good to know

The causative of kulala, to sleep or lie down; it takes an object: kulaza mtoto, to put a child to bed. The passive kulazwa means to be admitted: amelazwa hospitalini.

Examples

• Mama alimlaza mtoto baada ya kumlisha.Mother put the baby to bed after feeding him.
• Hospitali hii inaweza kulaza wagonjwa mia mbili.This hospital can admit two hundred patients.
• Babu amelazwa hospitalini tangu jana.Grandfather has been in hospital since yesterday.