Ngoma

Ngoma chiridzwa chinogadzirwa nedanda rine mhango pakati rinokakwa dehwe kune rimwe divi kana kuti mativi ose. Ngoma inoridzwa nemaoko kana nezvimiti.

Mhando dzeNgoma

• Nguri (A kind of drum).
• Chiharamba kana dandanda (Short drum(made from hollowed-out section of tree-trunk).
• Dumba (Drum).
• Gandira (type of drum hung from the neck) mhando yengoma inoridzwa yakarembedzwa muhuro.

Tsumo netsika

• Kangoma kanorira kachiti kwangu kwangu - apa kureva kuti munhu kana achitaura anonatsa zviri kudivi rekwake.
• Kangoma kunyanya kurira kanotsemuka.
• Akaimba muimbi Oliver Mtukudzi - Pfavira ngoma zimhandara husiku hurefu.
• Ngoma muridzi wayo. The (sound of the) drum depends on the drummer.
• Ngoma muna wayo. The drum is (dependent on) its owner.
• Chingoma chiririsi ndicho chiparuki. The drum that sounds loudly is the one that bursts.
• Pfavira ngoma, husiku hurefu. (Be calm and take your time to do things).
• Kuridza ngoma nedemo: (to beat the drum with an axe) - zvinoreva kuita zvinhu nenzira inokuvadza. Nokumwe kutaura tingati munhu ari kuita izvi ave kufarisa.

Mitauro yeBantu

• Mang'anja vanoti kuomba ngoma (to beat the drum; play the drum) vachireva [[kuridza] ngoma.
• VaZigula vanoti kuwamba (stretching leather or skins) vachireva kutatamura dehwe. Sokuti: Chiwamba ngoma mbiri. (We stretched two drumheads).
• VaZigula vanoti kuwambika (be stretchable - of leather or skins) vachireva kutatamuka kwedehwe.
• VaVenda vanoti -omba (beat a drum) kureva kuridza ngoma. VaYao vanoti likunda (a large drum) vachireva ngoma huru.
• Mukutaura kwemazuvano mangoma zvinoreva nziyo zvikurusei nziyo dzemafaro dzakaita semuseve; ragga, reggae zvichingodaro.