Mushonga
(runangakatsva kubva kuRukata)
Mushonga (chemical in English) ungava mushonga wokurapisa kana unoshandiswa mune mamwe mabasa pamusha kana muhushangazhi. Muchidzidzo chemishonga kana nemvura nemweya watinofema unopindawo pamupanda wemishonga.
Kutsauranisa Mashoko
chinjirudza- Shoko rokuti muchetura rinonyanya kushandiswa kutaura mushonga unouraya, kukora kana kukuvadza uchinge waiswa pachikafu chokudya. Kuchetura zvinoreva kuisira munhu mushonga muchokudya.
- Shoko rokuti chefu rinotaura mishonga inokuvadza kusanganisira: muchetura; nemiwme mishonga yokufemba kana kufema.
- Kupinga zvinotaura mushonga unoshandiswa kudzivirira chirwere chisati chatanga - immunization inganzi imhando yokupinga.
- Fumbo (Medicine to produce unconsciousness).
- Rufimbi (ansesthetic).
- Hwanga kana kuti uroyi mushonga unoshandiswa kukuvadza vamwe.
- Rukata (medicine ground and strewn on coals to prevent sickness).
- Muchidzo kana muchidza (remedy e.g. for cough or difficult situation).
- Murimo (Herbal medine, generally liquid).
- Muti.
- Mutombo (chemical) apa kureva mushonga.
- Mupfumbwe (poison in powder form).
- Mbandani (poison dissolved in liquid form).
- Mushonga Mbarikwa kana mishonga mubarikwa (Generic medicines or drugs)???. Mishonga uyu imbarikwa: this is a generic drug. Kana mushonga uri mbarikwa kureva kuti wakagadzirwa uchitodzana neumwe wagara uripo, asi une musiyano zvishoma. Mazwi aya haako kuChishona semashandisirwo ari pano - uku kuzama kuumba mutauro chete.
Kurerutsa Mutauro
chinjirudza- Mombe dzakadya chepfu ndokufuma dzakati chinjinji: the cattle ate poison and in the morning they were Iying dead with legs in the air.
- Mazwi ekuti shongwe, kushongedza anodaro achibva padzitsi rimwero nokuti mushonga.
Tsumo
chinjirudza- Mushonga haubati pasina ronda. Medicine does not work where there is no wound.
Mitauro yeBantu
chinjirudza- Mang'anja vanoti mankwala (n. physic - any medicine or drug). Mang'anja vanoti kuchiriza (v. cure) vachireva kuporesa.
- VaNyungwe vanoti mankhwala (remedy). Sangho vanoti londa (n. formula). VaBukusu vanoti kámaasúúswa (n. medicine).
- VaLenje vanoti wuanga kana wanga (drugs, medicines, poison). Mamwe mazwi: musamo (drug, medicine). Swahili vanoti unga (Powder).
- Kikongo vanoti songesa (v. rectify, make or prove right, to correct, revise, vindicate). Mamwe mazwi: songa (justice, uprightness, rectitude, correctness, integrity, virtue, honesty, propriety).
- Luganda vanoti eddagala (n. Chemical).