Kudengedza
(runangakatsva kubva kuKudengaira)
Kudengedza, kudengeza kana kudengezera (Balance on head) zvinoreva munhu akatakura mutwaro pamusoro iye asina kubatirira pamutwaro wacho. Sokuti madzimai vanodengedza zvirongo zvemvura.
Mamwe Mazwi
[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]- dengai (ideophone of Balancing; 2. of Showing pride or disdain - especially by gait). Ndakaona munhu akati dengai pachiruvi chemba: I saw a man standing balanced on the top of the roof.
- Kudengaidza (Set up something delicately balanced. 2. Make proud. Cause to show disdain).
- Kudengaira (Walk, balancing carefully. 2. Show pride or disdain. Unodengaira sorufu: you are as proud as (or, as uncertain as) death.
- denge (ideophone of Balancing). Tarisa kuno, ndinoti denge zvangu, kana kumbobatira kwete: look how I am balancing without holding on to anything.
Mitauro yeBantu
[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]- VaMambwe vanoti kutengezela (to carry anything on the head without supporting with hands) kureva kudengezera.
- Baila vanoti kutengenezha (to bear or carry on head without holding, as women do water) kureva kudengeza.