Ekikabwa

Ekikabwa mutauro unowanikwa kuTanzania.

Mazwi Anotodza Shona

• VaKabwa vanoti erangi (n. colour) kureva rudzi rweruvara.
• VaKabwa vanoti -takunya (chew) kureva kutafuna kana kutsenga.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tangatira (take the lead, go first; be in front) kureva kutangira.
• VaKabwa vanoti -taanu (n. five) kureva shanu.
• VaKabwa vanoti taata (n. father) kureva baba.
• VaKabwa vanoti taata omuke (n. father's younger brother; uncle) kureva babamunini.
• VaKabwa vanoti taata omukuru (n. father's older brother; uncle) kureva babamukuru.
• VaKabwa vanoti taata (n. father) kureva baba.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tema (hit; bit) - sokuti kutema nedombo.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tema eng'oma (play the drum) kureva kuridza ngoma.
• VaKabwa vanoti -terema (be calm ; be patient) - zvichida vanoreva kuterama.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tongera (advise someone; make a will) kureva kupanga mazano.
• VaKabwa vanoti tubwi (sound made by something falling in water) kureva chubwi.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tuka (insult, abuse, curse) kureva kutuka.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tuma (send or instruct someone to go do a certain task) kureva kutuma.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tunga (string together beads) kureva kudungira.
• VaKabwa vanoti -tunga (rule over a certain area) kureva kutungamira kana kutonga.
• VaKabwa vanoti oruganda (clan) kureva dzinza.
• VaKabwa vanoti orugoga (green-coloured scum on water) kureva zerere.
• VaKabwa vanoti orugoye (string, rope) kureva tambo.
• VaKabwa vanoti orujoya (n. fur).
• VaKabwa vanoti orukundi (umbilical cord).
• VaKabwa vanoti orute (drool; saliva; spittle) kureva rute.
• VaKabwa vanoti orwambo (bait) kureva hwambo.
• VaKabwa vanoti maahi kana maayi (n mother) kureva amai.
• VaKabwa vanoti -maahirira (look at) kureva kumaira.
• VaKabwa vanoti -mera (germinate, sprout, grow) kureva kumera.
• VaKabwa vanoti -menya (dwell; live) kureva kugara.
• VaKabwa vanoti mirongo ena (fourty) kureva makumi mana.
• VaKabwa vanoti mirongo esatu (fifty) kureva makumi mashanu.
• VaKabwa vanoti mpaka (until) kureva mupaka.
• VaKabwa vanoti munjara (famine) kureva nguva yenzara.
• VaKabwa vanoti murwire (heaven) kureva kudenga raMwari.
• VaKabwa vanoti kabhira (tribe) kureva rudzi rwevanhu. VaSwahili vanoti Kabila.
• VaKabwa vanoti kandura (strip off e.g. bark or husks) kureva kusvuura rwodzi.
• VaKabwa vanoti -kuruga (stir together) kureva kukurunga.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekigambo (n. language) kureva mutauro.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekirengero (measuring device) kureva chipimiso.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekirungo (n. spice, condiment) kureva chirungo.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekisaya (jaw) kureva shaya.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekitara (storehouse) kureva dara.

• VaKabwa vanoti ekyaro (land, country, nation; world; region; village; large area) kureva nyika.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekyasi (milking container - made from wood) kureva chasi.
• VaKabwa vanoti ekyoto (campfire) kureva choto.
• VaKabwa vanoti emande (groundnut, peanut) kureva nzungu.

Mamwe Mazwi

• VaKabwa vanoti jaaji (grandfather) kureva sekuru. Jaji izita remhuri.
• VaKabwa vanoti -kora (v. do) kureva kuita.
• VaKabwa vanoti -kora emirimu (v. work) kureva kushanda kana kuita basa.
• VaKabwa vanoti kira (each; every) kureva chimwe nechimwekana zvose.
• VaKabwa vanoti kira ekintu (everything).
• VaKabwa vanoti nyaruteeri (n. January) kureva mwedzi wendira.
• VaKabwa vanoti orutiti (backbone; spinal cord) kureva muzongoza.
• VaKabwa vanoti orusonga (point, tip, end).
• VaKabwa vanoti ekitare (virgin) kureva mhandara.

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1. https://www.webonary.org/kabwa/