ondoka
verb
to leave; to depart.
Describes someone or something leaving; ondoa means to take something away.
Origins
Its earlier history is still under review.
Sources4
Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database: Swahili (Max Planck Digital Library, 2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 33078.
Distinguishes intransitive ondoka from transitive ondoa.
A. C. Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), PDF page 321.
Documents leaving or departing.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884), PDF page 394.
Documents leaving or departing.
University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center, University of Kansas Kiswahili Glossary (University of Kansas), ondoka glossary rows.
Documents leaving or departing.
Examples
Tunaondoka saa ngapi?
What time are we leaving?
Basi limeshaondoka.
The bus has already left.
Tuondoke sasa.
Let's leave now.
Ondoka mapema ili usichelewe.
Leave early so you're not late.
Aliondoka bila kusema kwaheri.
They left without saying goodbye.
Usiondoke bila mimi.
Don't leave without me.
Ndege inaondoka kesho asubuhi.
The plane leaves tomorrow morning.
Nitaondoka baada ya chakula.
I'll leave after the meal.
Wageni wameondoka hotelini.
The guests have left the hotel.
