Bobangi

Bobangi mutauro weBantu unowanikwa kuDemocratic Republic of Congo.

## Mazwi Anotodza Shona

*Bobangi vanoti **loboko** (n. arm) vachireva ruwoko.
*Bobangi vanoti **moto** (a person) vachireva munhu.
*Bobangi vanoti **bato** (persons) vachireva vanhu. Ko bato rematongerwo encima?
*Bobangi vanoti **liso** kana **miso** pakuwanda (n. eye) vachireva ziso.
*Bobangi vanoti **lino** kana **mino** pakuwanda (tooth) vachireva zino.
*Bobangi vanoti **bungana** (to be amassed, to be stored) vachireva kuungana.
*Bobangi vanoti **bwato** (canoe, ship, steamship, boat) vachireva bwato.
*Bobangi vanoti **elema** (fool, idiot, stupid person) vachireva rema remunhu.
*Bobangi vanoti **eleme** (crippled limb) vachireva kuremara.
*Bobangi vanoti **ekwale** (n. partridge) vachireva chikwari.
*Bobangi vanoti **bala** (to count; enumerate) vachireva kuverenga.
*Bobangi vanoti **banda** (to ache - of teeth) vachireva kubanda.
*Bobangi vanoti **mokonzi** (chief) vachireva ishe.
*Bobangi vanoti **kombela** (to edge a path, make a fence, enclose by a fence) vachireva kukomberedza.
*Bobangi vanoti **kumana** (to come in touch or collision, be met, touch together) vachireva kugumana.
*Bobangi vanoti **likebe** (a small pot; vessel) vachireva mugebe.
*Bobangi vanoti **likoko** (n. hide; skin of an animal) vachireva dehwe.
*Bobangi vanoti **likulu** (confederacy; conjointedness; sameness; unitedness). Kuti rinotodzana nezwi rokuti **guru**.
*Bobangi vanoti **lingai** (frenzy, insanity, lunacy). Ko zita rinonzi Muringai?
*Bobangi vanoti **lina** (n. name) vachireva zita.
*Bobangi vanoti **linga** (to desire, like, love wish) - zvichida vachireva kudinga.
*Bobangi vanoti **lipapu** (n. wing) vachireva bapiro.
*Bobangi vanoti **mbala** (artificial article, counterfeit, fiction, fraud, imitation, sham).
*Bobangi vanoti **mbale** kana **mibale** (two). Ko chipari?
*Bobangi vanoti **mbata** (sheep) vachireva hwayi.
*Bobangi vanoti **mesa** (table). Ko zita rokuti Meza?
*Bobangi vanoti **mitano** (five) vachireva shanu.
*Bobangi vanoti **mobe** (evil person) vachireva munhu muvi.
*Bobangi vanoti **moleli** (bewailer; mourner) vachireva muchemi.Ko chikoro chinonzi Moleli?
*Bobangi vanoti **momene** (owner; possessor; proprietor) vachireva mwene.
*Bobangi vanoti **momene mwana** (owner of child) vachireva mwene wemwana.
*Bobangi vanoti **molimo** (mind, soul, spirit). Ko chinonzi mudzimu?
*Bobangi vanoti **sika** (to erect, plant, set, set up) vachireva kudzika.
*Bobangi vanoti **sunga** (quieten, subdue).

## Mamwe Mazwi

*Bobangi vanoti **mwene** kana **bene** pakuwanda (woman) vachireva mukadzi.
*Bobangi vanoti **mwasi** kana basi pakuwanda (wife) vachireva mukadzi wemunhu.
*Bobangi vanoti **nzoto** (n. body) vachireva muviri.
*Bobangi vanoti **lonua** kana **nnua** (n. drink) vachireva chinwiwa.
*Bobangi vanoti **bobato** (humanity).
*Bobangi vanoti **samba** (parallel).
*Bobangi vanoti **yeye momene** (he himself) vachireva iye omene.
*Bobangi vanoti **moto momene** (the person himself) vachireva munhu omene.
*Bobangi vanoti **lelo** (today) vachireva nhasi.
*Bobangi vanoti **bwanya** (ability, aptitude, art, gumption, cleverness, faculty, genius, talent, ingenuity).
*Bobangi vanoti **ekonza** (fecundity; prolific in breeding - that is more than one at birth).
*Bobangi vanoti **kila** (to abandon, abominate, abstain from, discontinue, dislike, forsake, give over, give up).
*Bobangi vanoti **kila mabele** (to wean) vachireva kurumura. Apa **mabele** zvichireva mukaka kana mazamu.
*Bobangi vanoti **mobutu** (alien, foreigner, stranger) vachireva mutorwa.