"aluka" meaning in Xhosa

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        "3": "*-gàdʊka",
        "t": "to turn, go back, come back"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-gàdʊka (“to turn, go back, come back”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zu",
        "2": "eluka",
        "3": "-eluka"
      },
      "expansion": "Zulu -eluka",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *-gàdʊka (“to turn, go back, come back”), intransitive separative form of Proto-Bantu *-gàda (“to turn, come back, go back, alter”). Compare with Zulu -eluka. The sense of being circumcised likely comes from the fact that initiates are taken out to the bush and then are returned after the ritual.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-aluka",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "xh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to be circumcised"
      ],
      "id": "en-aluka-xh-verb-YEhCBiu0",
      "links": [
        [
          "circumcise",
          "circumcise"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive) to be circumcised"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aluka"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "*-dʊ̀ka",
        "t": "to plait"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-dʊ̀ka (“to plait”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ̀ka (“to plait”).",
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    {
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  "lang_code": "xh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "_dis": "27 73",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to weave"
      ],
      "id": "en-aluka-xh-verb-JaKgizuj",
      "links": [
        [
          "weave",
          "weave"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aluka"
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zu",
        "2": "eluka",
        "3": "-eluka"
      },
      "expansion": "Zulu -eluka",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *-gàdʊka (“to turn, go back, come back”), intransitive separative form of Proto-Bantu *-gàda (“to turn, come back, go back, alter”). Compare with Zulu -eluka. The sense of being circumcised likely comes from the fact that initiates are taken out to the bush and then are returned after the ritual.",
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    {
      "form": "-aluka",
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        "canonical"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "to be circumcised"
      ],
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        [
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          "circumcise"
        ]
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        "(intransitive) to be circumcised"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aluka"
}

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        "t": "to plait"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ̀ka (“to plait”).",
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    {
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      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "to weave"
      ],
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        [
          "weave",
          "weave"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aluka"
}