Tsumo starting with MV

Shona Proverbs

• Mvana inoshushira / ngeine mwana. (M)A woman who has borne a child outside marriage may be hard to approach, but she is still able to have another child.
• Mviro-mviro yemhanza / inotanga shoshaBaldness shows itself first at the temples (the book's rendering prints "boldness", apparently a slip). The earliest trace of a thing appears at its edges.
• Mvura haina nhangi-tangi / tiza chikore chayo.Rain will not race you, so there is no point competing with it; get out of the way as soon as you see its cloud.
• Mvura inoshinyira / ngeiri pazambuko.The water to fear most is the water at the crossing place. The danger that matters is the one standing right where you must pass.
• Mvura yembambara / tiza ichabva kureRun from the storm carried on the south-west wind while it is still a long way off. Take yourself out of danger's path early, before it is upon you.
• Mvura yokuchererwa / haipedzi nyotaWater drawn for you by someone else never really satisfies your thirst. Handouts rarely give a person as much as he needs; to be satisfied he has to go and get things for himself.
• Mvura yomubvumbi igonza kuba.