Tsumo starting with V
Shona Proverbs
- Vagara imba imwe / vava varumudzaniPeople sharing one household come to act toward one another like siblings born in close succession.
- Vakafa havana chavakaonaThose who are still alive reckon that the dead saw very little of what the world has to offer, since they departed before things had changed into what they are today.
- Vakafa / vakazororaThose who have died are at rest. The living regard the dead as free at last from the troubles of this world.
- Vakanaka havararami.
- Vakarima vanodyiwa navoBy custom the produce of the fields is not kept for the cultivator alone; whoever works the land will share what he has grown and eat together with others.
- Vakukutu havatsvagi n'anga / asi vanorwaraPeople in good health have no reason to go looking for a healer; it is the sick who go searching.
- Vamwe ndivamwe / munajenga kutaura.Close friends count as a single person, so watch your tongue when speaking about one of them — what you say about the one reaches the other.
- Vane mwoyochena havararami.
- Vanyambare havapfutidzirani motoPeople who already carry burn scars do not fan the fire up for one another.
- Vari kuno vanoviga nherera mhenyu / vachisiya muzvare afaPity usually goes to whoever has the smaller trouble instead of whoever has the greater one. A man from a big household can be felt sorry for and given help, while the one who is genuinely destitute, and who has the claim on that help, goes without. The second of the two proverbs puts it that an orphan counts for nothing with people, so they will never do for an orphan what they do for a chief's child.
- Vari pachavo chikurikuri / vanorezva mwana nomuswePeople who are close to you will quietly tug at you to warn you, the way one teases a hyena's cub by its tail. A person should keep friends, for they pull each other out of trouble and share in each other's joy.
- Varoorana / vava varumudzaniA married pair fall into the manner of siblings who follow each other in birth order.
- Varume havadyi nyimo dzepfuko yokugwangurwaRound-nuts that have been boiled to cure a new clay pot are not touched by men. Odd or unwelcome habits make others avoid a person's company, so anyone whose ways clash with accepted custom should keep to them alone.
- Varume ndivamwe / kutsva kwendebvu vanodzimuranaMen are of one kind and should stand by one another, putting out each other's burning beards; helping someone in trouble today is what earns you help tomorrow.
- Varume tumbwanana / kurova tunodzokaA man who fails to obtain something he badly wants will not accept refusal as final; he comes back and tries again.
- Varume twumbwanana, kurova twunodzokera.
- Vataitururira matohwe / nhasi ndivo votiseka maparapadzwaIt cuts deeply to be mocked by the very person you once pulled out of trouble, especially when the injuries you now carry were got in the act of helping him. Kindness earns no gratitude.
- Vatsva vetsambo (chena) / kudzisungira vanozviringaSomeone who at last gets hold of a thing he had long gone without can hardly take his eyes off it, going about as though he were walking on air. People naturally parade whatever is new to them.
- Vaviri-vaviri / wechitatu muzvinaguhwaTwo people make a pair; bring in a third and you have brought in a gossip.
- Vaviri, vaviri wetatu muzvinaguhwa