Nyaudzosingwi starting with NH

Figurative Expressions

• nhaDescribes taking a small lump of sadza and placing it on top of one's heap of sadza; a mother who wanted her son to take a wife would, when she cooked for him, set a small lump of sadza on top of his portion in this way. Also describes snatching something up quickly and forcefully, as in: he grabbed the axe and went off into the bush.
• nhamhuDescribes the leaping of a leopard as it pounces on an animal it intends to eat or attack.
• nhanhiDescribes leaping from one rock to another.
• nhanhu
• nhengaDescribes walking unsteadily, not in a straight line, going off to one side and coming back. If you are not brave you cannot walk in a high place, because you will go nhenga nhenga.
• nhenha nhenhaSee mhemha mhemha.
• nhiDescribes seizing a person or an animal by the throat.
• nho-oDescribes the going out of a fire.
• nhonho-oDescribes food being cold, or the weather being cool.
• nhonhonhoDescribes food being cold, or the weather outside being cool.
• nhonhowa nhonhowaDescribes walking while treading gingerly, like a person with sores on the soles of the feet.