Nyaudzosingwi starting with ND

Figurative Expressions

• nda nda ndaUsed of the presence of a great many things.
• ndadzuDescribes the slow rolling of the eyes, as of a person who has fainted or is about to die.
• ndana ndanaDescribes walking with the legs spread wide apart, set far from each other. Compare tanya tanya. Also describes walking like a small child, steadying oneself so as not to fall.
• ndandandaUsed of the presence of a great many people or things.
• ndanyaUsed (as ndanya ndanya) of walking with long strides in a manner that shows off self-importance.
• ndarazuDescribes the body of a person who had been fat becoming thin.
• ndeDescribes handing over to another person something you are holding in your hands. Example: he was then handed the money he had been complaining about.
• nde-eDescribes staring fixedly at one thing for a very long time.
• ndendendeDescribes tying something very tightly. Also describes a person who had been troubled or ill becoming settled in mind and body.
• ndenderere
• ndenge ndengeDescribes the shaking of the ground or the earth, caused by its instability.
• ndengendeDescribes shaking violently, as the soil or ground or earth does when it is unsteady. Example: The windows of the houses went ndengende when the earthquake began.
• ndengu ndenguDescribes the shivering of someone who has been caught by the cold or who has been startled.
• nderendereDescribes walking behind a person or other moving thing without actually following it. Compare nderere.
• nderuDescribes running in haste over sloping ground.
• ndiDescribes gripping or holding something very firmly.
• ndiDescribes stopping abruptly because something is blocking you so that you can no longer go forward; also reaching the end of whatever is happening.
• ndikinyaDescribes giving someone something while in your heart you do not want to give it to them.
• ndimuDescribes the sudden, rapid scattering apart of people, animals or many things. Example: the birds that were in the millet scattered at once when a noise rang out.
• ndindindiThe faint sound heard from far off of a drum, a gun, or falling rain.
• ndindindiDescribes the swelling of something that has been filled with other things, as a stomach filled with food. Also describes a house being packed with people who have gathered, at a place such as a church or at a home where there is a funeral.
• ndindo-oUsed of the outdoors when it is so dark that even things that are close by cannot be seen.
• ndiririDescribes the halting of something that moves or turns, its brakes screeching as it stops, as in "The lorry pulled up ndiriri at the station and the people got off."
• ndoDescribes being weighed down by something you are carrying. Example: I was pressed down ndo by the bundle of firewood I was carrying.
• ndo ndo ndoDescribes the sinking of something down into mud or water.
• ndo-oDescribes the skin or some other thing turning very dark, as of a girl who used skin-lightening preparations for years and these days has gone dark ndo-o; also the sinking or ruin of a thing, as in "So you are saying my shirt should just be lost ndo-o?"
• ndondo-ondoDescribes sinking into mud, or going down so as to disappear from sight.
• ndonyeDescribes stuffing food into the mouth without any care for how one is eating. Also describes a person winking the eye quickly.
• ndonyeUsed when you have fallen to the ground head first.
• ndoriDescribes the nodding of the head of a person who is drowsy.
• ndoweVariant spelling of "ndonye".
• ndu ndu nduDescribes sitting in silence, refusing to speak to someone because one is sulking.
• ndugu
• ndundumwaDescribes becoming angry on the spot because of having been wronged. Compare fundumwa.
• ndunduru ndunduruDescribes dragging a person along forcibly, against their will.
• ndureDescribes the sting of a bee or wasp. Also used of two or more people falling at the same moment.
• ndure ndureDescribes people coming out of a house in single file, one behind the other.
• nduteDescribes biting a person or an animal painfully. Example: she bit the cheek of the loose woman who was going about with her husband.
• ndwaDescribes sinking quickly, as a fishing float does when a fish has been hooked.
• ndweDescribes stabbing or piercing with a blunt arrow, or with one whose head is of wood.
• ndwiUsed of crops being planted crowded together when farming, so that they fail to grow properly.
• ndwiDescribes pinching that is done gently but still hurts.
• ndyandya ndyandyaDescribes the running of an animal with large hooves, making a heavy thudding tread.
• ndyararaDescribes the walking of people moving in single file.
• ndyu ndyu nrlviiDescribes the galloping of a horse as it pounds the ground with its hooves.