dictionary / translation Lingala

móníngá, pl. baninga (class 1/2 : mo- (mu-) / ba- (persons))

friend, comrade

sepela na kozua ya moninga, motema mabe efutaka te
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sepela na kozua ya moninga
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see also : molingami

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Mbula enokelaka ndaku ya moninga omoni yango moke, kasi mokolo ekonokela yo ekomi matata. Proverb/expression (don't translate litteraly): When the rain fell on the house of your friend, you found it insignificant, but the day it fell on you it became a problem.
Pesa losako na baninga na yo.: Greet your friends.
Lelo ya yo, lobi ya moninga. Proverb/expression (don't translate litteraly): Today is for you, tomorrow for your neighbour.
Soki omonaka nzoto ya yo kilo, tala ya baninga se bongo Proverb/expression (don't translate litteraly): If you observe your body with respect, see your neighbour's one just so
soki moninga abali, sepela: When a friend gets married, rejoice
ezali te po tomelaka na nganda moko, nde tokomi baninga: It's not because we use to drink at the same café, that we became friends
bayebaka moninga malamu na tango ya pasi.: One knows a good friend in bad times.
moninga na nga aza na bokono: My friend is sick
naza na esengo makasi pamba te nakobima na baninga na ngai na pokwa ya lelo: I'm very glad because I will go out with my friends tonight.
koya na moninga na yo wana te. nalingaka ye te.: Don't come with that friend of yours. I don't like him.
mama ya moninga na ngai moko akufi: The mother of one of my friends died.
baninga na ngai nioso bazali na motuka. etikali kaka ngai: All my friends have a car. Only I remain.
yesu nde moninga malamu.: It's Jesus the good friend.
baninga na ye babwaki ye na libulu moko: His friends threw him in a pit.
Aza moninga na ngai ya bomuana.: He is my childhood friend.
nayebi te esika nini moninga na ngai akendaki kolokota ye wana.: I don't know where my friend went to pick that one up.
moninga na ye wana ya mundele apesaka ngai kanda.: Her white friend there makes me angry.
aza moninga na ngai te.: She's not my friend.
moninga ya mosala: work colleague
Liboso kolongola bipoti na lisu ya moninga longola nanu oyo eza na lisu na yo: Before removing the crusts from the eyes of a friend, remove already those that are in your eyes.

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