here; proximal demonstrative adverb.
Venda Dictionary — ZA
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329 words and 37 phrases — 366 entries in total.
Newest Venda words
- fhaṱa — to build
- gidima — to run
- muhuyu — fig tree
- Muthoza — Xhosa person
- Muvenḓa — Venda person
- muvhaḓi — carpenter
- muvhuḓa — hare, rabbit
- muvhulai — killer, murderer
- muvhundu — village, hill
- muvhusi — governor
- muvhuso — government
- nnḓa — outside
Words (329)
A (5)
there; distal demonstrative adverb.
to speak
apple
if
B (10)
father
cave
grasshopper
to bear
horse
to cook
book
spider
to rumble
to dig
D (16)
to come
to smoke
mud
joy
to be full
hundred
to pick up
millipede
town, village
to burn
day
hoe
to enter
name
flower
to bear
E (1)
he/she; him/her; third-person singular pronoun.
F (12)
to die
to hold
to give
lung
yonder, over there; remote demonstrative adverb.
down
to build
to graze
ten
to love
to learn
wild fig
G (9)
church
thousand
to run
to become lean
wagon, vehicle
armpit
slope
to learn
egg
H (6)
beer
to refuse
grass
home
shirt
to grow, to increase
I (4)
to sing
four
Eye
you; second-person singular pronoun.
K (12)
or
to scoop
to
ram
Sibling of the opposite gender
season
Friend
chief
father
chicken
piece of firewood
to pull
L (25)
to eat
to lie down
to throw away
Thursday
Wednesday
Friday
Tuesday
to spoil
twin
hair
to cry, to weep
to cultivate
Tooth
tooth
to herd
eye
to forget
love
Song
tongue
to bite
faith
milk
to fight, to struggle
sea
M (70)
Water
snow
embers
Traditional dance
eight
blood
maternal uncle
to suck
fat, oil, grease
saliva
winter
Relatives
Afternoon
axe
bushbuck
seed
zebra
two
Heart
marriage
penis
goat
dog
mother
ostrich
parent
thunder
village
grandchild
Guest / Visitor
Woman / Lady
Saturday
Elder / Senior
fig tree
river
servant
leg
fire
farmer
mouth
white person
door
man
writer
finger
Tree
woman
bride
Medicine
work
Monday
Xhosa person
person
tail (of an animal)
smoke
boy
termite
Venda person
carpenter
Body
ridge of the nose
hare, rabbit
killer, murderer
village, hill
governor
government
wind
rain
hippopotamus
moon
N (35)
and
Meat
buffalo
hunger
lion
beard
ear
road, path
elephant
by
Drum
danger
lesson
pig
blanket
lamb
crocodile
outside
house
house
war
sheep
leopard
to be fat
bee
snake
duiker
to smell, to stink
to drink
year
child
bone marrow
to excrete, to defecate
song
to enter
O (1)
office
P (8)
to stamp
to flash
baboon
impala
in front
to cleave
to be moist
to shatter
R (7)
three
six
to chop
to buy
to send
to sew
to hit, to beat
S (10)
to remain
country
to flee
to report
to show
seven
to drizzle
to arrive
to hide
Sunday
T (55)
to chew
nine
to weed, to hoe
to draw (a line)
to divorce
to meet
to vomit
to flick
to believe in
five
mountain
one
Head
greater kudu
stick
shame
Respect
King
giraffe
alongside
wether
to want
stone
graveyard
Hand
money
testicle
frog
face
Time
trap
school
toe
summer
wound
cat
to drive
south
enemy
fountain
chin
Xhosa language
Venda language
liver
worm
white rhinoceros
genet
iron
example
to steal
kidney
to be sad
to laugh loudly
to strangle
to strike with a whip
U (9)
to sleep
to love or like
to run
to learn
to eat
To be sick
to drink
to work
to walk
V (25)
to close, to shut
to scratch
wine
to carve wood
to read
to call
to boil
to tie, to bind
to see
flour
fur
to kill, to murder
to mould
mosquito
bow
winter
night
drizzle
Kindness / Humanity
cattle dung
pain, ache
to return
foreleg of animal
to open
to wake up
W (1)
to fall
X (1)
to dry up
Y (1)
to go
Z (6)
to itch, to burn
to trample
to sow
to tell lies
to swell
so
Phrases (37)
Hello (female)
My name is...
Where does it hurt?
Please sit down
Take care / Fare well.
Please take me to the hospital.
Go well / Goodbye
Please look after the children.
Sleep well so that you recover.
Good morning.
Peace be with you
Good work
Hello (male)
Hello
Thank you
Thank you
It is a great joy
I must tidy the room.
I must see a doctor.
I am hungry
I am feeling pain.
I am buying bread.
I am going to town.
I need medicine.
I am happy to see you.
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
We are celebrating
Wash your hands.
Which language do you speak?
Where do you come from?
Where do you live?
They are cooking food.
Who are you going with?
What is your name?
Live with kindness
How are you?