Every totem and its praise poem, the proverbs, the dictionary, the riddles, the tales and the customs.
Tsvaga mutupo, izwi kana tsumoEvery Shona totem and the clans that keep it, each with its praise poem, the names its men and women are greeted by, and where it is commonly found.
Nhimbe idoro rinonwiwa navanhu vemumusha, pavanenge vachibatsirana kuita basa pamba kana mumunda wemunhu anenge abika doro iri.
Chaingova chipata-pata nhaka yemakonzo kugadzirira nhimbe yokusakura chibage yaive yadaidzirwa pamusha pedu.
Verenga izwi roseRudo mwoyo unofarira mumwe, paine kuwirirana nokunzwanana kwakakomba.
Mumba mune vanhu vasingavimbani hamuna rudo.
Verenga izwi roseMhuri ndeinosanganisa vanhu vemba imwe vanoti amai, baba nevana vavo.
Vaishingirira kuti variritire mhuri yavo nguva zhinji.
Verenga izwi roseSadza kudya kunobikwa nemvura neupfu, nokudyiwa pamwe chete neusavi.
Sadza rezviyo rinonaka nenyama yehuku.
Verenga izwi roseMbeu imhodzi dzakamirira kudyarwa kana kuti dziri mumunda dzakatodyarwa.
Takanonoka kurima mvura ichiriko, mbeu dzikazopera kutsva nezuva.
Verenga izwi roseRopa ndezvakaita mvura tsvuku, zvinowanikwa mumuviri womunhu kana mhuka, zvinotakura chikafu nomweya kuendesa kunhengo dzomuviri dzakasiyana.
Hero ropa rababa rinoerera nomuhuro maTambaoga, mwanakomana wamambo Mupakaviri, richidzika nedumbu rake.
Verenga izwi roseMwedzi idenderedzi kana chimedu chedenderedzi chinowanzoonekwa usiku mudenga.
Nhasi kune mwedzi, saka kuchaita jenaguru manheru.
Verenga izwi roseAmai ngwee kuchena mwana ngwee kuchena.
A guyo is the large lower grindstone and a huyo the smaller stone worked in the hand. Grinding grain dusts both of them white, the big stone and the small one alike.
Batai sekuru vobve kudoro.
A butterfly does not fly in a straight line. Its swooping and tumbling looks like the walk of someone coming home from beer.
Chikomana chariga ishe padare.
Sleep takes hold of anyone, even a chief hearing a case at the dare. Riga is to topple over, which is what a nodding head does.
Dande mutande rakapedza nyika.
The sky covers the whole earth, and looks the same from anywhere you stand on it.
Kachembere kekwedu kanozvuva sanzu nekumashure.
A needle goes through the cloth first and drags its thread along behind it.
Kuenda humbangu kudzoka humbangu.
Humbangu is the ideophone for banging. A door makes the same noise going out as coming back.
Mombe yababa vangu inokamiwa yakabatwa muswe.
The Tale of Baboon and Cow
Kare-kare, Gudo naMombe vaiva shamwari dzepedyo. Vaitamba pamwe, vachibatsirana pakutsvaka chikafu uye vachigara zvakanaka. Mwaka wemvura pawakasvika, vakasarudza kuti vavake dzimba dzavo kuitira kuti vagare zvakanaka mvura isati yanaya zvikuru.
Mombe, uyo aiva nehushingi uye aishanda nesimba, akatanga kuvaka imba yake nechando. Akatsvaka matanda, matombo, uye huswa, akavaka imba yakasimba yakataridzika zvakanaka.
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