to hit, strike, beat

• bɛ ŋme n niriba ... kurili luhi they have hit my people and thumped them and made them fall.
• O ŋme malifa/agba ‘He shoots a gun, cannon.’

to ring (a bell, iron)

• ŋme mia ‘to ring sb. up, 'call' [Am.]’
• O ŋme nyɔɣu2. 1) ‘He pounds his chest.’

play (drum, fiddle)

• N ni ŋme mɔɣilo din mali mihi pia paɣ'a I will play a fiddle with ten strings to praise you.
• ŋme fanfantua ‘to beat the war alarm’
• ŋme sambanluŋa ‘to perfom the chant of the oral history’
• ŋme yaawum ‘to play the mourning music of grandchildren’

to apply decoration, depict

• bɛ daa ŋmɛnŋme abie tihi pa di dukpina maa zuɣu 'The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.'
• ŋme anfoni ‘to take a photograph’