PATAMATDLA.


 isi PATAMANDLA, n. x. A person in autho-
 rity. It applies to any office which
 is less than that of the supreme
 power, or chief magistrate, or ruler,
 or king of a people. A judge, a
 magistrate, a governor of a colony,
 in civil administration, or any
 officer inferior to the General com-
 manding in military affairs, would
 be denominated an isi Pata-
 mandla.
uku PATANA, v.t.x.z. To touch each other.
uku PATAPATA, v.t.x.z. To feel by touching
 with the hands.
uku PATAZA, v. t.z. To pat softly with the
 hand in a playful way; press
 softly.
uku PATELA, .i. x. Z. To carry for another.
uku PATELELA, v.t.x.z. 1. To join com-
 pany with another in a journey.
 2. To hold on on a journey amid
 difficulties of the way, as on a
 slippery path. Ite indlela imtyi
 bilize wapatelela noko : The path
 was slippery, but he held on his
 way nevertheless.
uku PATSA, v.i.x. To amble.
 u PAU, n.x.z. A distinguishing mark;
 a sign; applied to any mark placed
 on cattle, to distinguish them from
 others.
tku PAULA, v. t.x. To mark or brand
 cattle.
uku PAULELA, v.t.x.z. To brand or mark
 cattle for another.
uku PAULELISA, v. t. x.Z. TO cause cattle to
 be branded or marked for another.
 PAYA, adv. x.z. Yonder, at a distance.
 Applied to any object or locality
 in the distance, but within the
 range of vision. See Ngaprya.
uku PAZAMA, v.i.x.z. To be confused; to
 be unsteady, thoughtless; incon-
 siderate.
uku PAZAMIsA, v. i.x. z. 1. To hinder the
 sight of a person; to cause to see
 indistinctly.
 2. To confuse a person.
 3. To prevent the progress of an
 undertaking; to hinder the ac-
 complishment of a purpose.
 4. To perplex; to puzzle; to dis-
 tract.
 PAZI, v.x. Used with Ukuti, which
 see at No. 8 of its meanings. Ukuti
 pazi: To get a glance of; to have
 or obtain a momentary view of a
 thing. z. To make a feint as if to
 strike a person


uku PAZIMA, v.i. z. 1. To wink rapidly
 with the eye.
 2. To glimmer or quiver with
 rapid coruscations, as the sky
 sometimes does with sheet light-
 ning in a storm, or with an
 aurora borealis.
 uku PAZUKA, v. i. z. To blurt out a matter
 without due consideration.
 uku PEcA, v.t.z. To fold up as paper; to
 turn down, as a leaf of a book; to
 fold back, as wristbands, or the
 collar of a coat; to dress the hair
 in rolls.
 i PECEPECANA, n.z. A plausible, lying
 person. Lit. Folding one thing
 back upon another.
 uku PECEPECEZA, v.i.z. To speak plausibly.
 PEFU, ~. Used with Ukuti, which see
 at No. 8 of its meanings. Ukuti
 pefu: To take breath; to rest
 awhile. Bati pefu kona: They
 rested awhile there to breathe a
 little.
uku PEFUMLA, v.i.x.z. To breathe; to in-
 spire breath.
 um PEFUMLO, n.x.z. 1. Breath.
 2. The soul of man.
uku PEHLA, v. i. x. 1. To churn.
 2. To rub two pieces of wood to-
 gether so as to produce fire, which
 the natives of Africa often do.
 3. To,bore a hole in wood as the
 Sworm Impehla does, from, which
 S circumstance it has its pamie.;
 im PEHLA n.x1. An insect which bores in
 trees, or in wood. From uiku Pehla:
 |;; Tb bore a hole in wood.
 um P.HLI, t.x.z. One who agitates or
 S churns the mil for butter.
 .um PEHLO, ).X.z. The pithy kind of wood
 produced in boring ai hble in wood.
 um PEHLU, n.xA. The milk procured from
 the cow from a second milking,
 after'the calf ha. been permitted to
 S suck a second time. Ukwenz' um-
 pehlu: To milk a cow the second
 time.
 i PEJANE, z. A rhinoceros.
uku PEKA, v.i.x.z. To boil food; to cook
 by boiling.
uku PEKELA, v. i. x. z. To cook food by boil-
 ing for another person, or for a par-
 ticular purpose. Ndiyapekela u-
 hambo Iwetu : I am preparing food
 for our journey.
 um PEKI, n. x.z. A cook.
 im PEKO, n.x.'z. 1. A pipe bowl, so called
 because the tobacco is placed there a


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