Chivamba kana Chiwamba izita remhuri rinowanikwa muZimbabwe. Pano panyorwa mazwi ari pedyo nezita iri kune mimwe mitauro yeChiBantu, asi zvinoreva zita zvigona kusiyana zvachose nemazwi ari pasi aya. Chinangwa ndechekutsvaga zvinoreva mazita, zvikurusei kana mazita aya asisiri kutaurwa mumutauro wemazuva ano. Mang'anja vanoti chivamba kana chifamba ((a predatory or slave trade or piratical war: nkondo ya chivamba; man-stealing). Mang'anja vanoti chiwamba (a war of theft). Sokuti nkondo ya chiwamba, yazula chimanga - a war of theft, it has rooted up the maize. VaZigula vanoti kuwamba (stretching leather or skins)- kutatamura dehwe. Sokuti: Chiwamba ngoma mbiri. (We stretched two drumheads). VaBukusu vanoti síi.aambe (n. s.t. impounded, or taken and held without permission, loot, prize).