Browse Kalanga words: T

• t'
  we (prefix to verb)
• t'ina
  irritate; hurt someone
• taba
  protect by medicine
• tadziveisiH
  boxer
• tadziveisi H
  boxer
• tafula
  make an even grass thatch; smoothen grass thatch; make an even grass thatch
• tafuli
  table
• tafuna
  chew; masticate; chew
• taka
  color using coloring pencils
• takana
  splash about of soft porridge on fire
• takhwa
  before; be chased away; be expelled
• takula
  drive cattle
• talangana
  to spread out
• talanganya
  cause to spread out
• tamati
  tomato
• tamba
  skip about, as young animals; skip about
• tambika
  hang over something
• tambunudza
  stretch out, as a blanket; stretch out
• tambunuka
  be straight, as a path or a line; be upright and straight as a pole; be straight
• tanda
  sew with big stitches, or stitches that are far apart; sew with big stitches
• tandabadza
  cause to spread out as of the roots of a tree; cause one to sit with legs stretched out; cause to spread out as of the roots of a tree
• tandabala
  to spread out as of tree roots, or as of ones legs stretched out.; to spread out as of tree roots
• tandabalila
  sit with legs stretched out towards another
• tanga
  be first
• tangila
  to arrive first or finish first
• tangisa
  begin; cause to be first; begin
• tang’
  pincer; tweezers
• tanka
  tank
• tantabe
  species of lizard or an agama
• tapHula
  harvest fruit or greens from the plant
• tapinda
  Hello we are passing
• tapudza
  lessen; subtract; lessen
• tapudzo
  decrease; reduction; a subtraction
• tarata
  fence; wire
• tasilibomo
  harness
• taswa
  mount, as a horse; mount
• tata
  chase away
• tatamidza
  cause to chase or run after
• tatamila
  to chase or run after; to drive away; to chase or run after
• tate
  father
• tatHa
  climb; ride; climb
• tatHana
  climb or mount each other
• tatHanya
  put one on top of the other
• tathikana
  be pilled one on top of the other; be in layers; lie on top of the other; be pilled one on top of the other
• tatHikanya
  pile on top of the other
• tatHilila
  climb for; ascend to the required height; climb for
• tatHisa
  cause to climb or mount; give a ride in a vehicle; cause to climb or mount
• tatila
  chase to or for
• taula
  relate or tell a folktale
• tebetebe
  whirling toy made from a stalk of grass and a seed
• tebula
  spill; throw out, as of water; spill
• tebulila
  spill onto
• techanana
  thin
• tee
  tea
• teedzesa
  help listen to some problem; cause to listen; help listen to some problem
• tekedza
  tickle; poke on the ribs, as a result making one laugh; tickle
• tekelela
  to cry without cause
• tema
  black; chop
• tematema
  pitch black
• tembezela
  pray
• tempa
  affix a stamp; stamp; affix a stamp
• tenda
  thank; show gratitude; thank
• tendebuka
  turn around
• tendebula
  turn something around
• tendeka
  point out; point at, as with a finger; point out
• tendeleka
  move around
• tenga
  buy
• tengelana
  buy for each other
• tengesa
  sell
• tengesela
  sell for/to
• terabuli
  travelling rug
• tesela
  shave off all the hair
• teswa
  have a sharp end, as a needle; have a sharp end
• tetedza
  advertise, as being for sale; advertise
• tetema
  tremble with fear; shiver from cold; tremble with fear
• tetHela
  put domestic animals into an enclosure or a kraal
• Tetjanana
  narrow
• teuka
  turn over immediately, as of a pot on fire; turn over immediately
• teya
  set a trap
• tezwale
  father-in-law
• Thaabadza
  cause to be zealous, eager; cause to be zealous
• Thaabala
  be anxious; be in haste to accomplish something; be anxious
• thabi
  new hut with the grass thatch only but the wall not yet built
• Thaedza-mesho
  to look down upon
• Thaedzamesho
  to look down upon
• Thaela
  come short; come short of; come short
• thai
  tie
• tHako
  dress
• thako-ye-thunji L
  skirt
• thakoyethunjiL
  skirt
• thali
  thread; fibre
• tHalu
  calf of the leg
• Thama
  do; make; do
• thame
  secretary bird
• Thamisa
  cause to do something
• ThaN'wa
  be made to do something
• thanda-chukela
  light brown sugar ant
• thandachukela
  light brown sugar ant
• tHanga
  platform; playground
• thango
  piece of anaimal flesh product
• ThanThanula
  unstitch what was sewn; undo a plait; unstitch what was sewn
• thanya
  wake up from sleep
• ThaN’wa
  be made to do something
• thapula
  snap, as of something stretched out; snap
• thathubo
  examination
• tHeko
  hiccup
• tHele
  strip of cloth worn by a boy to cover nakedness; euphemism for male genitals
• thema
  black
• tHema
  rhinoceros
• tHenda
  type of wild sweet root
• tHengo
  purchase; purchase price
• tHengu
  raven; black crow
• theuka
  turn off the road
• Theula
  to drive one or two animals out of a herd
• tHewa
  wild berries of Grewia flava
• thigama
  kneel
• thikili
  string of thatching grass; a chain of little bundles of thatch
• tHilili
  wildcat
• thiwa
  trivet or three-legged stand for a pot
• thiyani
  porridge cooked with fresh milk
• tho
  sore; wound; ulcers
• tHobedzano
  children born one after the other
• thobolo
  gun
• tHogwana
  baby’s sleeping mat
• Thokomela
  care for; take care; burden either physically or emotionally; care for
• tHokotHoko
  dung not of cows but other animals
• tHongomana
  fontanelle of a baby’s head
• Thonya
  curdled; to curdled
• tHosula
  syphilitic rashes; syphilis
• Thowa
  hate; dislike; hate
• thowa
  whey
• tHozo
  hoof
• thubukana
  break a bond; cease being friends; separate by mutual agreement; break a bond
• thubukano
  separation; divorce
• thubukanya
  separate or divide amongst others
• thubula
  remove upper garments; undress; cut, as a rope or string
• thubulidza
  take a short cut
• thubulila
  treat in a mean manner; snap at someone; treat in a mean manner
• thudza
  revived; to come round, after a faint; revived
• thudzi
  shoulder
• thueko
  turn (directions)
• thuka
  forcibly break out of a kraal, enclosure or a stockade, as of livestock; forcibly break out of a kraal
• thukila
  break into a kraal, or enclosre, as of livestock; break into a kraal
• thukwa
  dark brown, as an ox
• thukwana
  brown
• thula
  kick
• thulana
  collide
• thulanya
  cause to collide
• thulila
  thatch
• thulilika
  be well thatched
• thulunula
  pull down, as of the roof of a house; pull down
• thuma
  sew
• thumbi
  puff adder
• thumo
  bullet
• thumugwa
  be provoked or vexed
• thumula
  provoke
• Thunama
  sit as one in a state of despair; look sullen or morose; sit as one in a state of despair
• thunde
  sorghum
• tHundu
  possessions; goods; merchandise
• tHungo
  rafters
• thunji
  loins; waist
• thusa
  help; assist; help
• thuse
  help
• thuta
  smoke a pipe or cigarette
• tHutHugwa
  fruit of a belladonna plant
• thutidza
  blow air to induce a flame in a fire
• thuwa
  rear, as of livestock; rear
• tHuzi
  fly
• thwa
  spit out; vomit; spit out
• thó
  wound
• ti
  say
• tibelelo
  whole night gathering for prayers prior to a funeral
• tichara
  teacher
• tikiti
  ticket
• tilika
  hang or place above
• tiliyana
  be on top of another
• tiliyanya
  put on top of another
• tirekitara L
  tractor
• tirekitaraL
  tractor
• tirina
  train
• titha
  torchwood
• tizha
  to run away from something
• tizhilila
  go after, with intention of catching up with someone; go after
• tizhisa
  cause to run or flee; have diarrhoea; cause to run or flee
• tizhisiwa
  diarrhoea
• tja
  fear; have fear
• Tjabewomba
  April
• tjaisa
  knock off from work; knock something
• tjaka
  cut
• tjakanula
  chop, slice
• tjakanyula
  chop or make something into small bits and pieces
• tjamba
  concubine
• tjampupudze
  dust storm
• tjan'gu
  mine
• tjan'gwatin'gwati
  hide and seek
• tjanana
  kid
• tjapa
  careless person
• tjatjama
  hiss or sizzle of something cooking; a painful ache as from a burn
• Tjazha
  hand
• tjebuka
  look back
• tjechebuka
  look sideways; look behind
• tjedza
  light
• tjeka
  cut
• tjekelala
  cut up
• tjekeledza
  go by a short route; take a short cut
• tjekelela
  cut into small pieces
• tjekesa
  cause to cut up
• tjela
  granary; draw liquid
• tjeludo
  dear woman
• tjema
  scream
• tjemela
  rebuke; caution
• tjena
  white
• tji / chi / n
  prefix singular
• tjibaka
  time
• tjibi
  sin
• tjikadzi
  girl
• tjilema
  disabled person
• tjiman'ga
  maize
• tjimanga
  maize
• tjimwe
  something
• tjinkwa
  bread
• tjinyala
  finger
• tjiso
  face
• tjitju yetjo
  that thing
• tji tombo
  rock
• to
  he; does
• toba
  massage
• toboka
  loose hope on something
• tobokana
  lose trust; loose trust on each other
• tobosa
  explain on absence of something; deny; explain on absence of something
• todza
  take after or resemble another
• toga
  we alone
• togwa
  be taken; be married; be taken
• tokonyola
  shred, as grains of maize from a cob; shred
• tola
  take
• tolela
  take for; take by force; seize; take for
• toloka
  interpret
• tolokegwa
  be interpreted for
• tolokela
  interpret for
• toloko
  abell
• tombola
  extract thorn from flesh using a safety pin
• tomu
  reins
• tongo
  denotes an act that would take place or had already taken place
• topola
  to pick very little using two fingers
• toroko
  railway truck
• toronko
  prison
• toropo
  town or city; city
• tose
  together; all of us
• tota
  mend or seal a hole using some beeswax
• totHodza
  make cold
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• tsatula
  crush something soft or alive as an insect between two objects
• tsetse
  flea; tsetse fly
• tsha
  dig
• tshamba
  tramp, or tread; step on something; tramp
• tshambilidza
  oppress; emphasize; press down, as a pen when writing; pin down to the ground; oppress
• tshambisa
  cause to step on something
• tshambo
  paw
• tshambuka
  take one’s foot off something; stop trampling on something; take one's foot off something
• tshatsharika
  walk unsteadily on weak legs, as when drunk; walk unsteadily on weak legs
• tshe
  shift a little
• tsheduka
  shift to one side
• tshedula
  shift a little, as of something heavy; shift a little
• tshepe
  springboks
• tshetha
  yellow
• tshetshe
  bull frog
• tshibama
  to give birth, as of a person; to give birth
• tshibika
  turn a pot or any container upside down
• tshila
  dig for; bury; dig for
• tshima
  well
• tshimuta
  sneeze
• tshinda
  gasp or struggle; as a dying thing
• tshindika
  to push one forcefully
• tshindinuka
  come off, as the floor of a hut; come off
• tshindinula
  exhume; reveal what was concealed, especially in the ground; exhume
• tsHinga
  veins or arteries
• tshipi
  week; metal; Sunday; church
• tshonyonga
  to irritate
• tshoo
  introduces a request
• tshotshoma
  be active; hyperactive; be active
• tshu
  black ox or bull
• tshugwa
  be wiped
• tshula
  wipe
• tshulisa
  cause to wipe
• tshulo
  fat round gut; omentum
• tshung'ayidza
  cause to be sleepy or drowsy
• tshung'ayila
  feel sleepy; feel drowsy
• tshungwaila
  tired; sleepy
• tshung’ayidza
  cause to be sleepy or drowsy
• tshung’ayila
  feel sleepy; feel drowsy
• tshunyana
  black cow
• tshwa
  new; burn
• tshwaisa
  cause to brand; brand for and give; cause to brand
• tshwaya
  mark, as when branding livestock; mark
• tshwayila
  sweep
• tsika
  squint, as of an eye; squint
• tsita
  fasten a napkin or diaper on a baby
• tswapula
  spoil, as of taste; spoil
• tswiyi
  sunbird
• tubatuba
  move up and down; come several time to a place within a short space of time; move up and down
• tubula
  manage
• tuka
  insult; look at one’s private parts; scold; insult
• tukana
  quarrel, scold or threaten each other; quarrel
• tukisa
  cause one to be scolded or insulted
• tukununu
  small; tiny
• tukutidza
  cause to perspire or sweat
• tukutila
  perspire or sweat
• tukwana
  handkerchief
• tukwi
  head scarf; a head dress; a head band
• tula
  take a load off your head
• tulugwa
  be taken down
• tulula
  take down
• tuma
  send
• tumba
  crouch; squat, sit on the haunches; crouch
• tumila
  send; mail; send
• tumilila
  send to or for
• tuna
  take an oath; abstain, as of a taboo; take an oath
• tunda
  urinate; pass water; urinate
• tundila
  urinate onto something
• tundubadza
  cause to calm down; cause a pain to subside for a while; cause to calm down
• tundubala
  quieten down or subside for a while, as of pain; quieten down or subside for a while
• tungamidza
  make a leader
• tungamila
  lead; go before one; precede a person; lead
• tura
  be expensive
• tuta
  remove or carry away in loads
• tutHumadza
  elevate; heap up; elevate
• tutHumala
  be elevated
• tutsHa
  make to urinate, as with a baby; make to urinate
• tutuma
  boil up or over, as of milk; boil up or over
• tutumisa
  cause to boil, as of milk; cause to boil
• tyajana
  small shawl
• tyali
  shawl; rug blanket
• tâla
  blue/green
• tûba
  brown
• t’ala
  blue; green; raw; unripe
• t’imela
  stray domestic animal
• t’ina
  irritate; hurt someone; anger someone
• t’ut’o
  education