sema
Verb Transitive and Intransitive
MEANING 1
To give out oracles, as one possessed by a spirit. BY EXTENSION, to rave, talk nonsense.
Example of use
Uyu mukashana alileka ukusema, MEANING: This girl has stopped giving out oracles.
SYNONYM/SIMILARWORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST
sesema, more used
MEANING 2
Sema umweshi, MEANING: To greet the new moon by shouting and gamboling about.
MEANING 3
Semamo mukunda mu musumba, MEANING: To yawn noisily in the wrong place, as chief’s court, in church, etc.
OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES
APPLICATIVE: semena.
FIGURATIVE:
semo mweshi MEANING to have menstruations just before the new moon.