Datya

Datya (frog in English) imhuka iri pamupanda dzehugarohuviri. Datya rinogara mumvura uye rinogarazve padunhu. Kune dzimwe nzvimbo datya guru rinonzi dzetse rinodyiwa nyama.

• Muchimbo, buruvuru kana bururu (tadpole) apa kureva nyungurwa.
• Mamwe mazita anopiwa anoti, dafi; dawa; matawa; mutawa; jedye, zura kana kuti chura.
• Mwana wedatya anonzi buruvuru kana zunguzurwa.

Mhando dzeMatatya

• Rwangachere kana tumbare (little poisonous frog — which encloses itself in grass).

• Datya (land frog).

• Dzetse kana jichidza (bull frog).
• Chimviyo kana tokwe (type of Frog).
• Chitobvu (Very small frog).
• Zunguzurwa Mwana we datya ane musoro bhangu.

Tsumo

• Datya kugara mumvura sandi kunwa.
• Zviururwi zvinofara kana kondo afa ziso. Small frogs are happy when the hammer-head (bird) has lost one eye.

Mitauro yeBantu

• VaShambala vanoti jula (n. frog), kureva datya.
• VaLenje vanoti wombwe (frog), kureva datya. Zvichibva ndipo panobva zita reguta rinonzi Chililabombwe?
• VaKongo vanoti luwanga (frog) kureva datya. VaEmbu vanoti koora (a small frog) kureva kadatya.
• VaMaconde vanoti chitowe (frog), kana zvawanda voti vitowe.