Dokoro

Shoko rokuti dokoro (appreciation of taste) rinotaura kuyemurwa kunoita munhu kanzwire kaanoita manakire echikafu. Vamwe vatauri vanoti mango.

Tsika

• Pwere hadzina madokoro echikafu sevakuru.

Kujekesa Dokoro

• Kuzipa (sweet).
• Kuzipisa (to make sweet; sweeten).
• Zipo kana nzipo (sweetness, as of honey or sugar).
• Kutapira
• Hambe (Sour taste e.g. of sour damba) iri shoko rinotaurwa pakuraidza muchero usina kuibva.
• Kuvava
• Indye kana ndye (1. Bitterness that is unpalatable). Ndanwa mvura ine indye, ndokubva yandirutsisa: I drank bitter water and it caused me to vomit.
• Madurungundu (Sour-tasting substance e.g. lemon juice)
• Kushata zvinoreva kuti chidyo hachinake pakudya.

Mamwe Mazwi

• Dungunu (ideophone of being pleasing to the taste).
• Dungunudza (make tasty). Dungunudza mahewu neshuga. Make the mahewu tasty by adding sugar.
• -dungunura (please the palate). Hwahwa hausati hwandidungunura. I have not yet formed a taste for beer.

Mazwi eBantu

• VaKongo vanoti sata (to be acid, tart, tartness. acidity, an acid) kureva kushata.
• VaGungu vanoti kukamba (have a slight taste of bitterness) - zvichida vachireva kuva nehambe?