Hwiza

Hwiza kana gwata (Grasshopper).

Mhashu

Dambaza, chikwatakwata (Hopper of migratory locust).

Ndongwe (Locust). Izwi iri rinotaurwa kuChiNdau. Pane zita remhuri rokuti Mandongwe.

Kurerutsa Mutauro

Icho chakasiiwa ngemakonye, ndongwe dzakadya. Chakasiiwa ngendongwe, gwata rakadya; neicho chakasiiwa ngegwata, mbunga dzakadya. What the cutter-worms left, the locusts ate; what the locusts left, the grasshoppers ate; what the grasshoppers left, the shearer-worms ate. Joel 1:4,  (kubva muBhaibheri reChiNdau.
Ndinozohwirinzira kwomuri makore edzakadya ndongwe, gwata, makonye nembunga: I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms. Joel 2:25,  (kubva muBhaibheri reChiNdau.

Zvirevo

Ndongwe inyama hazvienzani nenhikiti. Locust meat is better than pumpkin relish. 
Pashoma-pashoma/ kudya kwendongwe. Little-by-little is the way locusts eat (everything).

Mitauro yeBantu

Vatauri veLuganda vanoti nsenene (grasshopper) kureva hwiza.
VaTonga vanoti chikwikwi (swarm of locust) vachireva mukuze wehwiza.
VaWabo vanoti pombo (n. grasshopper) vachireva bombo?

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