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bobangi
bo-BA-ngi
shyness
French: la timidité
Mwana azali na bobangi.
The child is shy.
L'enfant est timide.
Shyness — the held-back voice of the newcomer. Bobangi is shyness or timidity, the same root as kobanga, to fear. A child who hides behind a parent's wrapper is na bobangi — and the family draws them out gently.
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