Monday, May 29, 2017

Inyanga

I came to know the word inyanga as meaning a traditional healer; one who works with natural medicines in particular. In Zimbabwe, the word encompasses the spiritual healers we call sangomas.

Yesterday I helped make a drum which looks like the moon, and discovered the isiZulu word for both moon and month:

inyanga, izinyanga

Namhlanje inyanga ingcwele.
Today the moon is full. 

vocabulary from isizulu.net
example from the  isiZulu Oxford Living Dictionary

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