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Zulu Vocabulary - Colors
Hello everybody,
➡ In today's lesson you will learn how to write and pronounce the main colors in Zulu.
In the Zulu tradition, colors are a real language for transmitting a message, according to a particular code. For example, each color has its own meaning: white can designate the purity of love, yellow wealth and fertility, green serenity and happiness, blue fidelity, red passion...
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Happy learning! 😊
With the completion of this lesson, consider investigating these related pages: How to say Good Bye? & Days, Months, and Seasons.
Main Colors in Zulu[edit | edit source]
English | isiZulu | Positive Meaning (beads)* | Negative Meaning (beads)* | |
black | -mnyama | marriage, comfort | death, grief, despair, loneliness | |
brown | -nsundu | |||
grey, gray | -mpunga | |||
yellow | -liphuzi | wealth, fertility | wickedness | |
white | -mhlophe | love | none | |
orange | orenji | |||
pink | phinki | emphasizes a promise | poverty, especially a lack of cattle to pay as lobola (the dowry paid to one's parents by the future husband) | |
purple | phephuli | |||
red | -bomvu | strong emotion | anger, impatience | |
green | -luhlaza okoTshani | contentment, happiness; grass, cattle, earth | illness, jealousy, lovesickness | |
blue | -luhlaza | fidelity; the sky or the sea | hostility, bad feelings |
Culture - Bead colors meanings[edit | edit source]
*Zulu bead colors can have a positive meaning, but also a negative meaning.
Videos[edit | edit source]
Learn Zulu Colors[edit | edit source]
LEARN COLOURS IN ZULU - ( RED,GREEN,YELLOW,BLACK )[edit | edit source]
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- Feelings and Emotions
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