Mawere

Sokuti kana munhu achiburuka kubva mugomo kuenda munhika anenge achidzika pane mawere.

Mhiripiti kana rupanana (precipice, deep hole with sheer sides).

• Charovedzera charovedzera gudo rakakwira mawere kwasviba.
• Mudya nameso, musvita wapamawere. The eyes only are fed by (an inaccessible) tree on a slope.
• Chiri pamuchena chiri pamutsvedu. What is in a poor man's hands is sitting on a precipice.

• VaYao vanoti lichenje (a deep descent ; a precipice) vachireva mawere.
• VaBemba vanoti matelo (slope) kureva materu.
• VaDigo neVaGanda vanoti ambuka (to ascend, to climb, to go up especially a mountain or hill) kureva kukwira gomo kana mukwidza.
• MaZulu vanoti isiwa, iliwa kana iziwa, amawa pakuwanda (precipice, cliff) vachireva mawere.