- Shona word pumaura in the Shona Dictionary
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- verb
- synonyms: fefedza
- dialects/origins: Zezuru
- English translation
- provoke
- To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
Imperative example | Shona | English | | pumaura | provoke (singular) |
| pumaurai | provoke (plural) |
Simple future tense example | Shona | English | | Ndicha pumaura | I will provoke |
| ucha pumaura | you will provoke (singular) |
| mucha pumaura | you will provoke (plural) |
| acha pumaura | he/she will provoke |
| ticha pumaura | we will provoke |
| vacha pumaura | they will provoke |
| chicha pumaura | it will provoke |
last updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 10:50:37 AM Central European Summer Time
- verb
- dialects/origins: Zezuru
- English translation
- dust
- Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
Imperative example | Shona | English | | pumaura | dust (singular) |
| pumaurai | dust (plural) |
Simple future tense example | Shona | English | | Ndicha pumaura | I will dust |
| ucha pumaura | you will dust (singular) |
| mucha pumaura | you will dust (plural) |
| acha pumaura | he/she will dust |
| ticha pumaura | we will dust |
| vacha pumaura | they will dust |
| chicha pumaura | it will dust |
last updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 10:50:37 AM Central European Summer Time