Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • chiwana"
    Language: karanga Translation: beer pot for a party; hollow in base
  • nyengaro"
    Language: karanga Translation: pot for beer after working in lands; hollow in base
  • mufuniko"
    Language: ndau Translation: Deckel
  • maluwa"
    Language: ndau Translation: Verzierungen
  • madzuwi"
    Language: ndau Translation: WassergefäBe, die eine enge Öffnung besitzen
  • muringi"
    Language: ndau Translation: WassergefäBe, die eine enge Öffnung besitzen
  • mukambwe"
    Language: ndau Translation:
  • mbange"
    Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: hemp, dagga!
  • Sihiso/Òihiso"
    Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: large open bowl, used as a kind of mortar for mashing (the pestle being of wood used in a rotary manner while the women sit on the ground. The sihiso have a secondary use when they have a hole in them caused by the shimusana or little pestle. Three together inverted make a kind of stove, on which a pot may rest for cooking purposes, the fire being lighted in the space between. They then cease to be sihiso and are maseku.
  • maÒeku"
    Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: Three sihiso together inverted to make a kind of stove, on which a pot may rest for cooking purposes, the fire being lighted in the space between.
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