Browse Kalanga words: G

• gaberi
  turtle
• gabha
  bucket; tin
• gabi
  lash; euphemism for a snake at night
• gabuka
  has had a large opening
• gabula
  make a large opening; rip open; make a large opening
• gagadzahamba
  crab
• gaisa
  grind, as of corn; grind
• gakhwa
  pool of water (not manmade)
• gala
  sit down; dwell; live; sit down
• gala-bge
  trust; believe in; trust
• gala-bheya
  sit indecently exposing some private part of the body
• gala-moyo
  be satisfied
• galabge
  trust; believe in
• galabheya
  sit indecently exposing some private part of the body
• galamoyo
  be satisfied
• gali-dema
  gathering by family and relatives after a bereavement when food is prepared the dead person’s belongings are distributed among the children
• galidema
  gathering by family and relatives after a bereavement when food is prepared the dead person’s belongings are distributed among the children
• galidza
  sit on someone’s place or seat; sit on someone's place or seat
• galila
  to wait for; stay or live for; to wait for
• gama
  catch in the hand, as of a ball; catch in the hand
• gamu
  relative
• ganda
  skin, as of a human being or an animal; peel, as of a fruit
• gandana
  strip of a tattered garment; a tattered garment
• gando
  an emanciated animal
• gangari
  sweet wild bulb
• gangwa
  peel of a watermelon
• ganyu
  membrane
• garaji
  garage
• gaswa
  half; remainder
• gat’e
  bitter wild melon
• gavu
  species of gourd eaten when tender
• geidi
  gate
• gele
  be seated
• gesi
  gas
• geyara
  gear
• Ghaabadzo
  shocking suprise
• ghole
  year; cloud
• ghulu
  big
• ghulughulu
  very big
• give
  pe
• go
  wasp
• gola
  vulture; a black vulture
• gole
  year; cloud
• golelino
  this year
• gololwani
  white-billed storks
• gomba
  hole; opening dug on the ground
• gombo
  new field which is being ploughed the first time; enlarged navel
• gondalume
  tall and stout male person
• gonde
  cactus
• gondolo
  big calf, fit to weaned; a grown up child
• gonya
  sleep with ones legs folded back
• gonyana
  worm; maggot
• gonye
  big worm
• gonye-danga
  worm of the type found in the kraal
• gonyedanga
  worm of the type found in the kraal
• gopo
  blind eye; someone who is blind (derogative)
• gorokoro
  windpipe
• gorokorwana
  creek
• gotsha
  shoot from the previous year’s corn stalk or root of a reed
• govu
  greedy person
• gubungano
  assembly or gathering
• gu endo
  journey; a pilgrimage
• guendo
  journey; a pilgrimage
• gukuno
  salt licks; places in the veld when game and livestock come to lick
• gukurume
  cock
• gukuta
  unbrayed and shrivelled skin
• gula
  part of the field that is left in fallow for a particular season
• gulu
  stomach; big
• gululu
  big lizard that lives on big boulders or large stones
• guma
  wall
• gumbatila
  hold hard onto something; struggle with each other; hold hard onto something
• gumbo
  leg; wheel; foot
• gumi
  ten
• gumula
  hit another with the head
• gunda
  owl
• gungubudza
  large scorpion which is very poisonous
• gungwana
  wheel
• guni
  log
• guse
  big lump of fur
• guta
  be full; be satisfied with food; be full
• gutukutu
  verandah
• guwo
  scream
• guwu
  cave
• gwa
  fight; quarrel; fight
• gwadza
  to hurt someone emotionally; to hurt physically.; to hurt someone emotionally
• gwadza-moyo
  grieve; be hurt; sorrow; grieve
• gwadzamoyo
  grieve; be hurt; sorrow
• gwakwa
  monkey orange fruit; dry veld
• gwala
  sick; ill; coward
• gwamu
  human milk
• gwani
  leaf of corn, off the stalk
• gwata
  hide oneself
• gwati
  outer bark of a tree
• gwendo
  journey
• gwenya
  scabies
• gwere-gwere
  type of wild bird
• gweregwere
  type of wild bird
• gwili
  potato
• gwilikiti
  chicken pox
• gwilikwiti
  measles
• gwililila
  repeat; go over again; revise; repeat
• gwisa
  powder; flour; struggle; try
• gwisanya
  cause to quarrel or fight; stir up strife; cause to quarrel or fight