Browse Kalanga words: S

• sabasi
  red soil
• sada
  careless person
• safari
  safari suit
• sagwa
  oversleep
• saili
  canvas; sail
• saina
  to sign
• sainisa
  cause to sign
• saka
  sack
• sala
  remain behind
• salila
  be last to finish; remain for; be last to finish
• salisa
  cause to remain; say goodbye; cause to remain
• samente
  cement
• sapa
  insult; curse
• sasi
  sparks
• sazamila
  have a pillow under one’s head when you sleep; have a pillow under one's head when you sleep
• seba
  whisper; gossip; relish with; use a sauce
• seche
  small grain that is left in the corn flour when winnowed or sifted
• sedza
  shift; move out of the way; shift
• sedzasedza
  shift about while sitting; restlessness; shift about while sitting
• sedzela
  come or move closer
• sedzesa
  move something; move out of the way; move something
• sefa
  sift or strain
• sefo
  strainer
• seka
  laugh; bracelet
• sekaseka
  giggle
• sekelana
  laugh with each other
• sekeresi
  cigarette
• seli
  across; the other side of a river; abroad
• selo
  winnowing baskets
• seme
  basket
• sena
  go under or beneath as under a low tree; creep through a wire; go under or beneath as under a low tree
• sendama
  to lean against
• sendedza
  stir up the fire
• sendedzela
  stir up for; provoke into action; stir up for
• sendeka
  put leaning
• senete
  senate
• senga
  carry
• sengela
  carry for
• sengesa
  cause or help to carry
• senke
  corrugated iron sheet
• sente
  cent
• senyana
  small basket
• shaba
  red; cut up a melon for cooking or drying up
• shababa
  slightly bitter; sour; slightly bitter
• shabapala
  become red; blush; become red
• shache
  gap between the two front teeth
• shadza
  porridge
• shaima
  type of wild plant
• shaka
  bird’s nest; look for; search;
• shakadza
  make old or wear until old
• shakadzila
  used idiomatically to mean giving used clothes to someone
• shakala
  become old or worn out
• shakaladzwa
  type of wild fruit
• shakana
  forest
• shakHwana
  small axe
• shakisisa
  to search a lot; to scrutinize; to search a lot
• shakiwa
  be looked for; be asked for your hand in marriage; be proposed for marriage; be looked for
• shakula
  weed; use a hoe to remove weeds; weed
• shakulisa
  help weed; cause to weed; help weed
• shala
  choose; select; choose
• shambga
  dirt
• shambo
  wilddog
• shamu
  cane; lash
• shan'ganiwa
  mixture
• shanduka
  turn back or round; change; turn back or round
• shandukila
  wear a garment inside out; turn against; turn for
• shandukunula
  turn inside out, as of a garment; turn inside out
• shandula
  answer or reply ; turn over, as food when cooking; answer or reply
• shandulo
  answer; reply
• shanga
  steamed mixture of corn and beans; eyeballs; alphabetical letters
• shangamidzo
  act of meeting someone
• shangana
  meet each other
• shangana-nsholo
  br confused; be insane
• shangana-nsholo L
  br confused; be insane
• shanganansholoL
  br confused; be insane
• shangano
  meeting
• shanganya
  cause to meet; mix; cause to meet
• shanganyila
  be in joint ownership
• shangashangana
  be jumbled; be entangled; be mixed up; be jumbled
• shango
  country; land; earth; the world
• shangu
  shoes; boots; sandals
• shanu
  five
• shanyashanya
  drizzle
• shanyuka
  start getting done, as when pounding corn; of a fruit starting to get ripe; start getting done
• shanyula
  get half done as when threshing corn or stamping corn in a mortar
• shapaila
  boil for a long time
• shashamuka
  fall off, as of tree leaves during the winter; fall off
• shashamula
  brush off or dust off
• shashika
  place by the side of the fire
• shashula
  dish some food or eat from a pot while cooking
• shatHa
  be happy; be glad; rejoice; be happy
• shatHiso
  cause for happiness
• shatHo
  happiness
• shatHu
  axe
• shato
  python
• shawara
  shower
• shaya
  cheekbones; petty talk; become poor; give birth to a stillborn; not find anything
• shazha
  simmer or boil, as of a pot of soft porridge; simmer or boil
• she
  chief
• sheta
  miscarriage
• shima
  hate; abhor; dislike; hate
• shinga
  work
• shingidzana
  cooperate; work together; cooperate
• shingo
  work
• shiya
  show off; think highly of oneself; show off
• shoba
  be stale, as of bread or food; be stale
• shobola
  pound grain in mortar to remove roughage
• shogwana
  grain from sifted ground corn or sorghum
• shoko
  monkey
• shola
  check on someone or something
• shoma
  much
• shomanana
  few
• shomoka-moyo
  feel pity; sympathize; feel pity
• shomokamoyo
  feel pity; sympathize
• shomola
  pull out; unsheath; draw out; extract; pull out
• shomola-moyo
  incite pity; pathetic; incite pity
• shomolamoyo
  incite pity; pathetic
• shomu
  nuts from dry plums from a sclerocarya caffra tree
• shondo
  penis
• shongoti
  first internode or topmost internode of a sweet reed or corn stalk
• shongozhela
  rejoice with others; be in jolly mood in a group of others; rejoice with others
• shongwe
  rock; hill
• shoni
  hedgehog; shyness
• shonja
  edible grub that feeds on the leaves of a mopane tree
• shosha
  fence in with tree branches
• Shotje
  June
• showa
  marks made on the face of a baby with eye problem
• showela
  tuck in, as a shirt into one’s pants; tuck in
• shozhedza
  cause to peep; cause to look into; cause to peep
• shozhela
  look into; peep through, as through the window; look into
• shuba
  desire; wish for; desire
• shubo
  desire; longing
• shudza
  walk with a limp; hobble about; walk with a limp
• shugwana
  small hare
• shula
  portend
• shule
  behind; after; afterwards
• shuleshule
  long after
• shulo
  hare
• shumba
  lion
• shunya
  pinch
• shunyiwa
  be pinched
• shushubala
  become silent and reserved
• shwa
  remain for a day
• shwaiwa
  be poked at
• shwaya
  hook out; poke at; hook out
• shwelela
  do something for the whole day
• shweshwana
  creased; crumpled; creased
• shweshwanya
  cause to be creased or crumpled
• siang’wa
  orphan
• siila
  give water or something to drink; leave food for someone; give water or something to drink
• siisa
  cause to leave behind
• sika
  small round marks on the arms made by burning the skin; make fire by rubbing two sticks against the other to produce some sparks out of the friction
• sikati
  day
• sikidzi
  bed bug
• sikili
  sickle
• siku
  night
• silinga
  make noise; to irritate; make noise
• silivara
  silver
• sima
  difficult; hard
• sima-moyo
  bravity; hardhearted
• sima-nsholo
  be stubborn
• simamoyo
  bravity; hardhearted
• simansholo
  be stubborn
• simausu
  hawker’s small caravan or tin house where he/she sells the merchandise
• simba
  strength; power; genets; members of the genet family
• simbe
  lazy person; coal, hot or cold
• simula
  uproot
• simulula
  begin
• sina
  type of grass used for thatching; a mould or ball of mud used in plastering
• sindi
  squirrel
• sinyanga
  to mould mud used for plastering into large balls
• sirila
  to massage; rub hard; to massage
• sisila
  trot
• sitila
  obstruct one’s view; to shadow someone; obstruct one's view
• siya
  leave behind
• siye
  eyebrow
• siza-fulo
  foam at the mouth
• sizafulo
  foam at the mouth
• so
  kidney
• soba
  slide; move timidly while seated; move while asleep; slide
• sodzoloka
  slide; slip; break a promise; slide
• sodzolokesa
  be slippery; cause to slip; be slippery
• sokisi
  sock
• sokonyola
  sway one’s waist from side to side, as when walking; sway one's waist from side to side
• sokosa
  rub an eye with a finger or the back of the hand
• sola
  sole of a shoe
• sole
  type of worm; soldier
• sonyoka
  sprain
• sopHedzela
  being sucked dry; milk a cow or goat to the last drop
• sopo
  soup; gravy
• sosara
  cup saucer
• suba
  vagina
• subuka
  rub or wear off; peel; have abrasion; rub or wear off
• subula
  fray; make the skin peel off; rub off, as paint etc.; fray
• sudhu
  maize cob without the grain
• sudza
  do something iritating to someone intentionally
• sudzi
  flatus
• sudzika
  be fixed right by someone for something you did
• sukesuke
  flat poisonous centipede
• sula
  fart; release bad air per rectum; fart
• sulisa
  cause to fart or release bad air
• suma
  make a noise, a pot cooking, a river or a wind; make a noise
• sumbika
  hide; conceal; hide
• sumbula
  make oneself dirty by playing on the ground
• sun'gunula
  untie, unwrap
• sunda
  force; push away; push a thing on the ground; force
• sundu
  skin shed by a snake or reptile
• sunga
  bind or tie as of a rope
• sungana
  be intertwined; tie each other; be intertwined
• sungilila
  tie onto something
• sungisa
  cause to tie; make one get caught by the police; cause to tie
• sungunuka
  become untied; be free; become untied
• sungunuko
  liberty; freedom
• sungunula
  untie; remove a bandage; unwrap; untie
• sunula
  castrate
• susubula
  press clothes poorly such that the wrinkles remain
• sutu
  suit
• swaba
  wither; dry up a little; be disappointed; have one’s hopes dashed; wither
• swabiya
  albino
• swai
  saw
• swaki
  barrel
• swanja
  sour plum
• swaswabula
  beat; thrash, as of a child; beat
• swazwi
  cut bush, sometimes used for making a fence
• sweswa
  large jet black ant
• swewuka
  be stupid
• swiila
  have sex, of humans (derogatory); have sex
• swika
  arrive
• swikidza
  see to it that someone arrives
• swikidzana
  to arrive at the same time
• swikila
  to reach up to something; stay at; to reach up to something
• swikiri
  sugar
• swimbo
  knobkerrie; stick with a large knob or head at one end; a bat or club
• swina
  press out the contents of a tube; press out pus from a sore; squeeze water out of clothes; press out the contents of a tube
• swinga
  type of bird; bundle, as of firewood
• swinya
  male genital
• swipa
  suck something into the mouth
• swiswa
  pass
• swiswina
  suck, as a candy; suck