Nambya English

I don’t see you

question who?

enemy

farmers

grooms

bats

bald

hunters

kick

(Shona) nyama

thick

raw

noun night

crow

noun liver

how

hut

basket

hearth, cooking pit/fire

rich

hyena

blind

they

tortoise

combs

noun dog

adjective cold (of weather)

ostrich

leopard

vagina

giraffe

why

noun bull

bulls

buffalo

mosquito

mosquitoes

python

pythons

lions

bridge

noun rain

hundred

noun leaf (botanics)

noun eye

elephants

frog

drunk, be

(Shona) china

watch

(Shona) -sona

have fever

(Shona) gonye

old

smooth

when

language

branch

hands

(Shona) -ipa

hives

fists

(Shona) -itsva

female

dreams

mothers

mothers-in-law

verb tomorrow

hyenas

cockroaches

watefalls

paternal uncles

fishnets

nets

five hundred

breasts

(Shona) ibwe

days

bows

bellies

(Shona) dziva

(fire)wood

another

Goodbye

with

I will give you the money

blue

silent

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

pronoun all (of a number)

flat

heat

(Shona) rutanda

adjective new

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

escape

(Shona) -reba

cook

(Shona) kwete

sister-in-law

groom

nurse

(Shona) ziso

priest

urine

fish(es)

obey

(Shona) mhuno

yesterday

in morning

ant hills

chests

(Shona) fuva

Dialect: Manyika loanwoard

sticks