Hwiza

Hwiza kana gwata (Grasshopper).

• Mhashu

• Dambaza, chikwatakwata (Hopper of migratory locust).

• Ndongwe (Locust). Izwi iri rinotaurwa kuChiNdau. Pane zita remhuri rokuti Mandongwe.

Kurerutsa Mutauro

• Icho chakasiiwa ngemakonye, ndongwe dzakadya. Chakasiiwa ngendongwe, gwata rakadya; neicho chakasiiwa ngegwata, mbunga dzakadya. What the cutter-worms left, the locusts ate; what the locusts left, the grasshoppers ate; what the grasshoppers left, the shearer-worms ate. Joel 1:4, (kubva muBhaibheri reChiNdau.
• Ndinozohwirinzira kwomuri makore edzakadya ndongwe, gwata, makonye nembunga: I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms. Joel 2:25, (kubva muBhaibheri reChiNdau.

Zvirevo

• Ndongwe inyama hazvienzani nenhikiti. Locust meat is better than pumpkin relish.
• Pashoma-pashoma/ kudya kwendongwe. Little-by-little is the way locusts eat (everything).

Mitauro yeBantu

• Vatauri veLuganda vanoti nsenene (grasshopper) kureva hwiza.
• VaTonga vanoti chikwikwi (swarm of locust) vachireva mukuze wehwiza.
• VaWabo vanoti pombo (n. grasshopper) vachireva bombo?