Tsumo starting with ND

Shona Proverbs

• Ndechemba / vakadzi kuva nedinha panhovaWomen balance heavy loads on their heads so effortlessly that men imagine they are built for it with a hollow in the skull. In truth it comes from household training begun in early childhood.
• Ndezvameso / muromo zvinyarareSome things are for the eyes alone; the mouth should keep silent about them.
• Ndezvomwana mudiki / kubata nhengu anonzi rasa iziziA child is easily fooled: he catches a drongo and is persuaded to throw it away as though it were an owl. The young are quickly talked out of what they have, or into what harms them.
• Ndezvowabaya / kuti chiropa hachisevesi sadzaDismissing liver as no good with sadza is a remark reserved for whoever did the killing.
• Ndiro yechirema hairoveA disabled person is a person like any other, so his own dish is known to the whole household and is never overlooked when food is served, even though he may eat apart.
• Ndisvike-ndisvike / inoradza vazhinji panziraRushing leads to mistakes that have to be put right, so the hurry costs more time than it saves. Before a journey it is better to pack carefully than to leave something behind and have to go back for it.
• Ndiwe wapaona kuti ageza ngaatimbirwe.
• Ndiyo hayo / nyama yousina imbwaFor a person who keeps no dogs, that much meat is quite enough.
• Ndoita zvingani / kuti mhanza, kuti mavende?How much am I expected to endure — baldness and gap-teeth at once? A person feels singularly cursed when several troubles land on him at the same moment.
• Ndomene / haichemedziWhat a person brings on himself gives him no cause to weep. There is nobody to cry to over the results of your own doing.
• Ndongwe inyama hazvienzani nenhikiti
• Ndozvarinoda gurokuro / kuripa nederereSadza served with derere is precisely what the throat is asking for.
• Ndozvenyu VaMuroora kutiza nyoka pana vanhu / mava moga moita jenyuraJust like you, daughter-in-law, to flee a snake while others are watching and then be perfectly at ease with it once you are by yourself. People keep up appearances in company and behave quite differently the moment they are out of sight.
• Ndumudzani hadzidyi mundiro imwe cheteSiblings next to one another in birth order are not fed from a single dish.