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mpese
MPE-se
cockroach / roach (insect)
French: cafard
Mpese ezali kotambola na kati ya kuku.
A cockroach is walking inside the kitchen.
Un cafard marche dans la cuisine.
Mpese — the common cockroach, ubiquitous in Kinshasa kitchens and markets. Robust survivors; mpese is often used figuratively for someone impossibly hard to get rid of.
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