Nyaudzosingwi starting with MB
Figurative Expressions
- mbaDescribes grasping something with the palm of the hand, or taking up a quantity of things with the hands, as when one grabbed mba a handful of groundnuts and left. Also of squeezing forcefully: he seized my hands mba and I could not wriggle free.
- mbandiDescribes gripping something firmly, usually with the fingers. Mother took hold mbandi of the handle of the pot.
- mbe-eUsed of the sky when it is growing light and white. Of a person, a heart that is mbe-e is a good, gentle heart.
- mbembe-eUsed of a garment that is spotlessly clean and white, as the apostolics' robes were mbembe-e.
- mbetuUsed of a hare: when it goes mbetu you have caught sight of it for only a brief moment.
- mbeya mbeyaDescribes the staggering of a person who is drunk.
- mbikitiUsed of a person standing about doing nothing at all; compare tumbi. Also of falling down to the ground.
- mbu-uUsed of a garment that, once washed, goes mbu-u, meaning it has come out really clean and white.
- mbu-uUsed of a miller's head when it is covered in flour and white all over.
- mbureteteUsed of something such as a plate that is so clean that not a speck of dirt remains on it and it shines.
- mburumbuDescribes speaking as though one's mouth is full or one has something in it being chewed.
- mbwa mbwa mbwaDescribes the going out of a fire that had been blazing with flames leaping upward. Compare mbo mbo mbo.
- mbwambwambwaDescribes the rotting of mushrooms or of shamba.
- mbwandiUsed of a woman who goes mbwandi with her dress when sitting down, meaning she covers herself up well so that what is underneath is not seen.
- mbwerekesheVariant spelling of "bwerekeshe".