Nambya English

mother

I don’t see you

count

(Shona) zhinji

grooms

children

have children

(Shona) imbwa

priests

kick

(Shona) nyama

hold

(Shona) gwati

beautiful

both

raw

east

boat

spider

chest

(Shona) gore

cage

left

verb swim

sit down

(Shona) -nhuwidza

eagle

cockroach

they

noun egg

noun skin (person’s)

ten

sharpening tool

eyelashes

(Shona) -chena

rope

noun ash(es)

adjective cold (of weather)

winter

louse, head

orphan

warthog

noun flesh (meat)

buffalo

mosquitoes

ghost

lions

pronoun 2.sg You

elephants

some

fry

(Shona) mwana

drunk, be

(Shona) china

dry

male

sad

rotten

verb walk

speak

(Shona) -uraya

cry

(Shona) amwe

prepare

(Shona) ruoko

hands

(Shona) -ipa

monkeys

geese

valleys

graves

twenty

owls

paternal grandmothers

no

narrow

caves

cheeks

(Shona) ivhu, pasi

maternal grandfathers

paternal grandfathers

name (family)

fingers

(Shona) -tonhora

salt

daughter

hearts

(Shona) -asviba

bat

better

because

wet

which

heat

(Shona) rutanda

where

verb fly

eight

father

paternal aunt

young

white ant (termite)

sister-in-law

son-in-law

arrow

noun earth (soil)

urine

younger sister

fall

(Shona) -fara

obey

(Shona) mhuno

moons

fourteen

shamans

Yesterday I saw you

yesterday you saw me

open

(Shona) muromo, mukanwa

little