Nyaudzosingwi starting with H

Figurative Expressions

• hachuDescribes the snatching of something out of a person's hands, leaving them grasping at air; also the catching of something thrown through the air, such as a ball.
• hadaDescribes showing very great joy.
• hahararaDescribes being unsteady or lacking firmness. A person who is haharara makes others wary of going about with them, since one would be taken for a loose, unrestrained person; a door that is haharara is standing wide open.
• hakanuDescribes the coming undone of something that was fastened by hooking — as when a belt gives way and the trousers drop in front of a crowd.
• hakuDescribes hooking together a chain, a yoke, trek-chains or other things that need to be joined.
• hapuDescribes lifting something heavy very quickly. The pot of beer was lifted hapu, and then up on top, tsve-e. Cf. dzadzu.
• hata hataDescribes breathing heavily, with the breath blocked up, because of anger.
• hatuDescribes grabbing with the hand something that is escaping or falling, or is about to. Also used of catching something that has been thrown into the air. Compare katu.
• hauThe sound of a dog howling. Cf. hu-u.
• havaDescribes the spreading of the flames of a fire as it burns over a large area.
• havaDescribes a fire catching and then flaring up into very large flames. Compare tupwi-i.
• hesvuDescribes excusing someone from paying a levy they were due to pay. Also, lifting the plough so that it makes a shallower furrow.
• hetsuDescribes the blowing out of mucus from the nose.
• hiDescribes loading heavy things onto a person's head.
• hi hi hiThe noise and panting-like sound made by a person when a spirit is about to possess them or come out of them.
• hi-i hiDescribes the crying of someone who utters no words, as small children usually do.
• hichaDescribes snatching something away forcefully.
• hodhiUsed of asking permission to enter a house. A visitor says hodhi on arriving at the door. Cf. godi.
• homuThe sound of baboons crying out.
• hu huThe sound of a dog barking.
• humbanguDescribes banging a door shut.
• humbuThe noise made in the throat when drinking a thick drink.
• hunyataDescribes the outside growing dark after the sun has set. Hyenas begin to move about as soon as it gets dark.
• hurududuDescribes grieving and being distressed, as a person who has suffered a bereavement.
• hurwadaDescribes kneeling down to hand something, such as food, to a person who is respected; also the sinking to the knees of an animal or person whose legs have lost their strength.
• hutuDescribes leaving a place or vanishing so quickly as never to be seen again, as of a creature shooting off towards the clouds. Compare tande.
• hwa-aDescribes food or other things running out completely, with nothing at all left. The mealie-meal is finished hwa-a; I don't know what we will eat today.
• hwa muDescribes grazing a great deal of grass at one time, as a hungry beast does.
• hwachuDescribes taking something quickly, or snatching it away.
• hwapuVariant spelling of "hweshu".
• hwaradadaUsed of a house standing bare, the goods that were in it no longer there because they have been stolen or removed.
• hwararaDescribes stooping low while kneeling before a person or people whom one respects.
• hwashuDescribes leaving a place in a hurry. Also the sound made by a person walking through grass.
• hwatataDescribes an animal lying low in ambush for another, or people lying in wait for one another — as a lion lies hidden in the grass so that a buffalo will come near it.
• hwauThe sound of a dog yelping. Also used of a thing that has become dry or hardened.
• hweUsed of the sky when the sun is about to rise. Also of having thoughts that are quite clear about what one is doing.
• hwehwerereUsed of the outdoors growing light, when day has broken.
• hwembuUsed of a person drinking thick milk. Also describes pulling something that stretches, like rubber.
• hweshuUsed of a person who has left the place where they were in a hurry.
• hweshuDescribes taking something, or taking it from a person, by force.
• hweshuDescribes seizing a person quickly with the hands.
• hwetuDescribes cutting grass with a sickle.
• hwi hwi
• hwi hwi hwiUsed of a wound that is throbbing painfully.
• hwi-iyo
• hwi mb uDescribes taking one big gulp of a drink at a time.
• hwibuDescribes the cutting or severing of something in a single stroke. Also used of quickly snatching up a utensil one is working with.
• hwipuDescribes drawing soup off a spoon with the mouth. Also, pulling up grass from the ground at its base.
• hwishuDescribes the cutting of something into small pieces with a knife.