Zulu-English DictionaryNatal, Vause, Slatter & Company, 1905 - 728 pages |
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abantu amabele amasi animal assegai beads beast beat bird body break calabash calf cattle Cetshwayo chief child dance dress eaten express eyes fire girl give goat grass ground hair hand head Help horns hyæna imfe impi induna inkomo innyanga isibongo isijingi Jojo Kafir killed kind kraal lapa legs lo'muntu loku look maize mealies meat medicine menstruation milk mouth Mpande Name namhlanje Natal native nouns one's one's-self person piece plant plur pron QATA rain river rubbed scrape Senzangakona sickness side skin snake snuff sound speak stick stone strike strong talk thing throw tree tribe uJojo ukuba Ukuti umkonto umtakati umuntu umutsha utshwala violently walking wind woman Woman's word young Zulu Zululand
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Page 282 - ... with another, about sixteen hours daily,— and this very circumstance has produced a sort of attachment to the place, making one loth to part from it. We leave at daybreak to-morrow. NOTE. — The itondosha suggests in some points a comparison with the Zulu umkovu, or " familiar " of wizards, who " are said to dig up a corpse and give it certain medicines which restore it to life, when they run a hot needle up the forehead towards the back part of the head, then slit the tongue, and it becomes...
Page 468 - army, host, commando, force, battle, affair ; part to begin the attack, front of the battle, post of honour; any large body or company of people ; adversary, foe, enemy, person or people in state of hostility.
Page 333 - 'a climbing plant with red roots, bits of which are much worn about the neck." A note adds: "The root is chewed by Zulus when going to battle, the induna giving the word 'Lurnani (bite) umabope!
Page 273 - NB The word kolwa only expresses belief in the sense of assent, not of trust or affiance, for which temba must be employed. Hence it is a very improper word to be used, generally, for the faith of a Christian.
Page 80 - ... New Year's eve, believing that the small-pox god will pass them by, and not recognize them. At the beginning of the New Year in Natal, a ceremony is performed by the chief by spurting from his mouth a mixture of the New Year's fruits in different directions as if upon his enemies. After this ceremony it is lawful for the people to eat the New Year's fruits. They are only eaten by stealth before. The teacher in China who must send poems on New Year's day to the parents of his pupils, sits on New...
Page 461 - Indigo plant, so called because children dye armlets of grass with indigo, then dry them in the sun (peka), and so imitate izinibedu with them.
Page 193 - Musical instrument of the abeSuto, made of a rod with a stretched string fastened to both ends, and a piece of quill inserted at one end, around which the performer draws his breath and produces a sound something like that of a Jew's harp.
Page 674 - ... that all the blood in the body goes to it, as a sort of house ; hence the word is used also to express bodily life, which exists MS long as the wnxirclo is in action, that is, so long as the man breathes.
Page 224 - HLOBONGA, v. Court or woo (in a good sense) ; court or entice a person to do any thing ; have sexual intercourse in a lewd way externally.
Page 374 - Crested, flame-coloured, poisonous, snake (? cobra), reckoned to be the king of snakes ; applied as a word of honour, to a chief, and also, by way of reproach, to a woman of violent temper.