Mukosi
Mukosi kana hotsi (string with two strands made by rolling back and forth between palm and thigh) zvinoreva kukwizira shinda kana makonje pachidya uchimonanidza kuti zvive tambo imwe inonzi mukosi.
Mazwi eBantu
[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]- Mang'anja vanoti kukosa (to rub on one's knee the strands in making string; to twist threads).
- Nyungwe inoti kukosa (v. braid) kureva kuruka. Ila inoti kuposana (to be entangled) kureva kukosana.
- Lugwere vanoti lukosi (string, strand, lightweight cord, thread, twine) kureva mukosi.
- Luwanga inoti omukhosi (line, probably more specifically one of several parallel lines, a ray of light) kureva mukosi.
- Nyanja vanoti kupota (to spin, to twist) kureva kukosa.
- Nyanja vanoti kupotaka (to twist; to bend; to make crooked) kureva kukosa.
- VaMambwe vanoti okoseka (to be properly twisted, plaited - of rope) vachireva yakakoseka.
- VaTaabwa vanoti kupota kana kuposa (to twist; braiding thread) kureva kuposa.
- VaTaabwa vanoti kuposolola kana kupotolola (to untwist a rope) kureva kuposorora.