Hukama

Kuroorerana kungavapo pazera riri kurarama nhasi kana kuti pamazera akafpuura.

Hama dzepedyo kunyanya ndidzo dzinoti: baba, amai, vana, mukoma, munin'ina hanzvadzi, ambuya, sekuru, murume wako, mukadzi wako.

Munhu wausina hukama naye anonzi mutorwa.

Vamwe vatauri veChiManyika inoti gamo kureva hukama kana hama.

• Chibvi (Direct but distant relation). Muzukuru chibvi.
• Mhoromoka (Stranger married into tribe especially into ruling house).
• Izwi rokuti makamu (relatives) rinotaurwa kuKalanga richireva hama. Makamu izita remhuri.

• Muimbi Oliver Mtukudzi akaimba achiti, Zvamunoona husahwira hunokunda hukama.
• Dzikidzira (take root, come to stay).
• Mutorwa zvake asi akadzikidzira pano. He may be no relative, but he has come here to stay.
• Kubaya tange hama vatorwa vakutye. Kill first the relatives (so that) strangers may fear you.
• Panorwa hama nehama, mutorwa bvira kure. Where relatives fight, a stranger should keep aloof.
• Ukama hwokwamai hahukanirwi nhaka.
• Ukama hwokwamai hahuna rwiranhaka.
• Hukama hunonhuwa. Relationship is scented.
• Kudya masanga chikuru kuonana. Eating is incidental but the main thing is seeing one another.
• Aramba ukama apa huku yangu kurarama.

• Giryama inoti mbari (kindred - one's family and relations) kureva mhuri nehama. Mambwe mupalamano (n. relationship). Kimbundu inoti ndandu (n. relative).
• Lunyoro inoti mwene (n. relation). Manga Kanuri vanoti kàmà kana àmà pakuwanda (n. peer; companion).
• Kikongo inoti mfwanana (n. relationship). Mamwe mazwi: inoti mfwanani (n. similarity, equality, likeness). -amfwanani (the same, equal, alike).
• Nyanja inoti m'phale kureva hama. Chewa inoti chilawa (agnation - relationship on father's side) kureva hama yekwababa.
• Luganda inoti ruganda kana luganda (family, kindred, relations; company) kureva mhuri nehama.
• Yao inoti ulongo (affinity, relationship), hukama. Mamwe mazwi: mlongo (a relation; member of the same tribe) kureva hama.
• Lubwisi inoti kukwataana (be together, be near; connected, related). Mamwe mazwi: bukwataane (relationship).
• Lubwisi vanoti bukama, makama (n. Kingdom).
• Lubukusu inoti khuukama (n. relation on mother’s side) ihama yekwamai. Zigula inoti undugu (kinship, relations, brotherhood) kureva hukama.