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bopemi
bo-PE-mi
repose
French: le repos
Eyenga ezali mokolo ya bopemi.
Sunday is a day of rest.
Le dimanche est un jour de repos.
Rest — the day the work is laid down. Bopemi is rest, from kopema, to breathe. The mokolo ya bopemi — the day of rest — is honoured; even the hardest worker is owed the breath of it.
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