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kabweari

Bingham

kabwéari

vi. to engage in giving a scorched smell to a riri.
n. a riri which has been scented by moderate scorching.

Sabatier

kabweari

n. a manner of fumigating people in sorcery ceremonies, a kind of perfumed fumigation of persons and things.
vt. kabweara: to perfume over the smoke of odoriferous plants, to fumigate persons or things (sorcery).