Nambya English

I did not give you the money

live

(Shona) mvere

babies

wives

grooms

have breakfast

(Shona) nyana

have cold

(Shona) inda

set on fire

(Shona) -ona

girls

thick

catch

(Shona) ani

You’re Welcome

ask

grass

gather

(Shona) mudzimai

brain

(Shona) nyanza

second

leech

give birth

(Shona) murume

noun nose

how

hail

sneeze

(Shona) -rara

verb sit

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

noun bark (of tree)

duck

cheek

(Shona) huruva

lake

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

worms

monkey

combs

rope

noun seed

verb, intransitive fans

virgins

winter

widows

story

leopards

well

vagina

question what?

turtles

noun ear

forest

baboon

noun hair (on head of humans)

elephant

songs

insect

powerful

sad

old

cry

(Shona) amwe

when

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

dream

(Shona) tatu

forearm

(Shona) -chembera, -tsaru

death

(Shona) aisi

Dialect: English loanword

verb bite

sick

twins

horns

arms

(Shona) zuva

bones

(Shona) gungwa

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

forty

mothers-in-law

shells

chiefs

full moon

with

verb today

now

many

because

lie (tell untruth)

(Shona) vhudzi

noun hot (of weather)

be blind

noun red (colour)

paternal uncle

sell

(Shona) -furidza

send

(Shona) -fema

fleas

bow

noun air

noun neck (not nape)

elder brother

noun sand (opposite to following)

younger sister

bleed

(Shona) iwe

twelve

here

in morning

sweet

elbows

(Shona) rhodhi

sticks

how much