Noun: waragi
| Singular | waragi |
| Plural | waragis |
Sample Sentences
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The two men walk down the hill from Makerere University but get no further than Wandegeya, a cacophonous slum of scrap-iron artisans, blaring radios and ragged-trousered clients frequenting matoke and waragi bars. [2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, section 449:]
Nouns inflected like waragi
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Luganda waragi, itself from English war + gin. See: English Nouns '
war'.