zizira

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dìdida (“to become cold/to shiver - region N”).

• IPA^(key): /ziˈzi.ɽa/

-zizira (infinitive kuzízira)

1. to be cold
2. to be chilly
3. to freeze
4. to be cool
5. to be alert
6. to lack savour
7. to be insipid
8. to be lazy or soft or feeble
9. to be calm
10. to be cheap (prices)

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -zizirira
  • Causative: -ziziritsa
  • Negative: -sazizira
  • Reduplicative: -zizirazizira
  • Other formations: -zizidwa (“to be cold”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • pozizira (“cold place”)
  • ziziro (“cold”)

• Steven Paas (2016) Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford University Press, page 609

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dìdida (“to become cold/to shiver - region N”)

-zizira (infinitive kuzizira)

1. to be cold

• zi-zi-zi-zi (“numb with cold”)

• William Y. Turner (1996) Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[2], Central Africana Limited, page 167