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botolo
bo-TO-lo
undress
French: déshabiller / enlever (un vêtement)
Botolo elamba na yo.
Take off your clothes.
Enlève tes vêtements.
Undress — taking the cloth off, gently or in a hurry. Botolo (with elamba, cloth) is to undress, from kobotola, to take away. A mother botolo a child before the bath; the same root, alone, can mean to seize — context tells which.
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