• English word lead in the Shona Dictionary
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  

tungamira
/tuŋamira/

• verb
• synonyms: embera, furira, puruvuritsa, runzira, shaura, sungata, tungamirira, vembera, yembera
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru

English translation

lead

To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.

tungamira
/tuŋamira/

• verb
• dialects/origins: Standard Shona

English translation

guide

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

mutobvo
/mutóɓ͡ʋ̤ó/

• noun , class(3)
• synonyms: chumbu
• variant: mutobvu
• dialects/origins: Standard Shona

English translation

lead

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.