Zande Language - Word List

Word List

Some vocabulary :

• aboro – people
• ami – they (applying to animals)
• ani, a – we
• areme – today
• ari – high
• ba – father
• bagunda – heart
• bambu – house
• bangiri pia – east
• bangirise – eye
• báwe – ten
• be – arm, hand
• bi – see
• biama – four
• biata – three
• -bira – to be black
• bire, bere – forest
• bisua bati biata, muambi – eight
• bisua bati ue, saba – seven
• bisua bati biama, ribua – nine
• bisue bati sa, sita – six
• boro – person, man
• de – woman
• di – valley
• dia, da – wife
• dioyo – west
• diwi – moon, month
• ga Mbori bambu – church
• gangara – hill
• garã – year, dry season
• gbanga – horn
• gbuku – forest
• gbundu – forest
• gunde – fear
• i, yo – they (persons)
• ida – believe
• ime – water
• kama – a hundred
• keda – send
• kerekuru – star
• kibire – forest
• kisanga – island
• ko – he
• kparabe – hand
• kpendue – foot
• kperekese – everyone
• kpetebe – hand
• kure – blood
• mbia – mountain, rocky hill
• Mbori – God
• mi – I, me
• mo – you, singular
• na, a, ki – and
• ndue – foot
• ngba – mouth
• ngbarago – joy
• ngbongbo – valley
• ngera – see
• ngua – tree
• -ni – he, she (indefinite)
• ome – air
• oni – you, plural
• paga – bridge
• pai – word
• rago, ra'o, rame – day
• ri – head; she
• rimo – name
• sa – one
• sende – earth
• si – they, neuter
• si, ti – it (subject)
• tue – ear
• -u – he, she (in reported speech)
• u – it (animal subject)
• ue – two
• uroyo – east
• uru – sun, day
• -vura – to be white
• we – fire
• wiri – son
• zamba – red
• zande – person, man