Kupoterera

Shoko rokuti kupoterera kana kupota rinoreva kuenda nenzira inotenderera. Mamwe mashoko anoreva zvimwe ndeanoti: kukomberera; kutenderera kana kumonereka, .

• Potererai nekuseri ndiko kune musuwo wekupinda nawo.
• Bhazi rinopoterera gomo kuti risvike pachikoro.
• Kupotereka kana kutendereka (circulate as in blood)
• Kumoneredza (1. Encircle. 2. Wind round) apa kureva kupoteredza.
• Kudzengerera kana kudzemberera (Circle purposefully).
• -dzengeredza (make to circle).
• Kudzerereka kana kuzerereka (Turn round and round quickly). Chipo aizerereka pamuzerere wakasungirwa pamupfuti.

Mamwe Mazwi

• Kudzunguruka (go round as the hand of a clock).
• Kungwiririka rotate very fast).
• Kungwiriridza (to make something rotate)
• Kutenderera (to turn round and round; revolve)
• Kutenderedza (to cause something or someone to rotate)
• Kusika (to spin on axis especially stick held between extended palms).
• Kunyera kana kunyerereka (to spin; turn as a top).
• Kunyeresa (cause to spin).
• Kuzungura (rotate winnowing-basket, etc).
• Kupotereka, kutendereka, kutenderera, kundeya kana kuzeya (whirl round).
• Kundeya (to turn around on or as if on an axis).
• Kubomba (Go around) zvichireva kupota.

Kurerutsa Mutauro

• Mugwagwa unomonereka kwazvo uchinzvenga makomo: the road takes many twists and turns to avoid the hills.
• Akamoneredza musha newaya: he ran a wire round his homestead.
• Gondo rinodzengerera pamusha kana raona huku: a hawk will circle about a village when it has seen a fowl.
• Waswerodzengeredza mombe pasina uswa, kusaka dzine nzara.

Mazwi eBantu

• KiKagulu inoti -bota (v. spin, twist). Umbundu vanoti pota (spin). Nyanja inoti ku-pota (to go round and round) kureva kupoterera.
• Nyanja vanoti kukweta (to turn). Nyanja inoti kukwetama (to go round; to turn) kureva kupoterera.
• Nyanja inoti kukwetera (to go round; wind) kureva kupoterera. VaNdau vanoti kupota (v. to go in; to enter).
• Nyanja inoti madzi akwetera pa pote (the water whirls at the pool) kureva mvura inomonerka padziva.
• Maconde inoti -pota kana -popota (v. twist, twine).