VaKongo vanoti ximbana (grapple with each other, seize, grasp, take hold of, to catch, take hold of). Kumutauro weKikongoxi inodudzwa ichinzi si.
VaKongo vanoti ximba (v. to hold, to keep or lay or seize or take hold of, to grasp, to understand, to hold to, to keep, observe, sustain, to hold back, restrain, control, confine, fetter, hamper).
VaKongo vanoti ximba kana nximba (n. the seizing, grasping, maintaining, undertaking of, observance of). Mamwe mazwi kosimba kana simba (v. to touch).