• Shona word mhanya in the Shona Dictionary
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mhanya
/m̤aɲa/

• verb
• synonyms: enda, sevenza, yerera
• dialects/origins: Zezuru

English translation

run

1. To move swiftly by using the legs; go on the legs more rapidly than in walking; hence, of animals without legs, to move swiftly by an energetic use of the machinery of locomotion.

2. To make haste; hasten; hurry, often with suddenness or violence; rush.

3. To flee; retreat hun-iedly or secretly; steal away; abscond; desert: often followed by kubva.

4. To move, especially over a definite course: said of inanimate things, and with the most varied applications; be propelled or borne along; travel; pursue a course; specifically, of a ship, to sail before the wind.

5. To perform a regular passage from place to place.

6. To flow.

7. To give passage to or discharge a fluid or a flowing substance, as tears, pus, the sand of an hour-glass, etc.

8. To become fluid; fuse; melt.

9. To extend from point to point; spread by growth, or expansion, or development of any kind: as, moto waka mhanya mu uswa.

10. To creep or trail; spread by runners; overrun; twine or climb in any manner.

11. To go through normal or allotted movements; be in action, motion, or operation; operate; work.

12. To strive for any end; especially, to enter a contest for office or honours; specifically, to stand as a candidate for election.

13. To go on; goby; pass or glide by; elapse.

14. To pass; proceed; advance; take a certain course or direction.

mhanya
/m̤aɲa/

• noun , class(9)
• dialects/origins: Zezuru

mhanya
/m̤aɲa/

• noun , class(9)
• synonyms: banya
• dialects/origins: Zezuru