ŋma
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Verb
to break (of glass or crockery)
- di bi simdi ni yi zaŋ di nimdi yi sambanni bee n-ŋma di kɔbili it is not right that you should take its meat outside or break a bone of it. [EXO 12:46]
- o daa zaŋ bimparilana ... maa bahi zoli maa gbini ka di ŋma he threw the slabs down the mountain and they broke. [EXO 32:19]
- di ŋma o zuɣuŋmɔŋ it fractured his skull. [JDG 9:53]
- A yi ʒiri yuli ka di ti ŋma, a bi lan zɔri ko’ yɔra. If you are carrying a water pot and it breaks, you no longer fear water running down on you. [Prov. 322]
- Zom’ yi ti ŋma ŋmani ŋmani lana n-ŋma li. If a blind person breaks a calabash, it’s the owner who