lift - phakamisa

Word information
Part of speech verb
Infinitive ukuphakamisa
Inchoative no
Transitivity transitive
Note This is often used to refer to lifting objects. For instance, in the South African national anthem, "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika", "maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo" means "let its [Africa's] horn be lifted up"
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Datasets
  • IsiXhosa at the UCT FHS (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

    Authored by ⁨Amandla Ngwendu et al. Linguistically annotated for IsiXhosa.click by Anesipho Tshisani, Esethu Mahlumba, Cael Marquard, and Ben Gubb⁩. Associated with ⁨University of Cape Town⁩.

    This is a word list extracted from the IsiXhosa curriculum taught at the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences.