musiru
The Luganda word for stupid is musiru.
The term is used as an adjective to describe someone who is lacking in intelligence.
Meaning: lacking in intelligence (adj)
How does it change in a sentence?
When referring to a single stupid person, you can use the noun form omusiru. To refer to stupid people in the plural, use abasiru.
Did you know?
- Calling a child musiru is often avoided by parents in Ganda culture because words are believed to have power over a child's future character.
- While it means 'stupid', the word is often used colloquially to describe a situation or a thing that is simply 'not working' or is 'nonsensical', rather than a person's IQ.
- Because Luganda is an agglutinative language, musiru can be combined with other prefixes and suffixes to create complex descriptions of stupidity within a single long word.
Examples in context
- Nze si musiru nnyo.I am not very stupid.
Example conversation
Mukasa and Nantongo are arguing about a mistake.
- MukasaLaba ekintu ky'okozese, oli musiru!Look at what you've done, you are stupid!
- NantongoTogamba nti ndi musiru, Mukasa.Do not say that I am stupid, Mukasa.
- MukasaNaye kiki ky'okozese?But what have you done?
- NantongoNvaako, buli omu okuba musiru.Leave me alone, everyone is stupid.
