ambuka

== Swahili == === Pronunciation === === Verb === -ambuka (infinitive kuambuka) Stative form of -ambua ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Verbal derivations: Causative: -ambukiza == Tumbuka == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jàmbʊka. === Verb === -ambuka (infinitive kwambuka) to cross a ford or a river, to ford (by extension) to infect (idea of disease crossing one person to another) ==== Derived terms ==== -ambulizga (“to infect, to cause someone else to yawn by yawning”) jambuko (“crossing at a ford”) Tumbuka === References === William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎[1], Central Africana Limited, page 1