Nambya English

I don’t see you

friends

brides

sons

verb kind

beautiful

both

bad

verb kill

noun night

lie (in ambush)

(Shona) nhenga

brain

(Shona) nyanza

third

noun knee

hail

verb swim

fist

(Shona) -zara

short

rat

buck

goose

ocean, sea

sharpening tool

crab

crabs

guinea fowl

guinea fowls

armpit

(Shona) -gwamba, -tonhodza

monkey

rainbow

pronoun 1.sg I

louse, head

vagina

hat

tusk

buffaloes

snakes

verb, transitive farm

strong

pronoun inclusive we

noun hair (on head of humans)

word

noun leaf (botanics)

rotten

have fever

(Shona) gonye

push

(Shona) mutsipa

old

smooth

go to sleep

(Shona) mhuka

pass the night

(Shona) zino

verb say

long

fence

noun tongue (anatomical)

verb bite

have itch

(Shona) sango

song

freeze

(Shona) murume

hives

years

coughs

(Shona) sino

Dialect: English loanword

butterflies

narrow

maternal uncles

seven hundred

ladders

son

month

kiss

(Shona) bvupa

never

better

Excuse Me

many

chew

(Shona) chii

noun hot (of weather)

be blind

blow

(Shona) a

poor, be

(Shona) gumbo

begin

(Shona) ndi, ini

paternal uncle

three

buy

(Shona) apo

sell

(Shona) -furidza

young

enemies

bow

wind

noun woman

brother

son-in-law

singer

younger brother

bury

(Shona) pano

broken, be

ants

Hello

shaman

close

(Shona) rini

dead body

eyebrows

(Shona) -girini

Dialect: English loanword