Musikana (girl) zvinoreva nzvari yemunhu achiri mudiki, kana ari mukuru anonzi mukadzi. Shoko iri rinoshandiswazve kutaura munhukadzi achiri mhandara, asati aziva murume. Shoko rekuti mukadzi rinoshandiswazve kutsanangura chero nzvari yemunhu zvisinei kuti ane makore mangani ekuzvarwa.vasikana vashanu kubva pazana vavakuziva varume vachiri nemakore gumi ekubirekwa. Mukadzi asati aroorwa kana asati ava nemwana musikana hazvinei kuti anoziva varume here.

Mamwe Mazwi

• Dyore kana tepi (Slim, attractive girl). Idyore romusikana: that is a pretty. Zvichida ndipo panobva zita remhuri rinonzi Madyore kana Majore?
• Chiwawa kana chibhama (Attractive girl) apa kureva musikana akarurama pachitarisiko.

Tsumo

• Ziitakamwe mimba yousikana. It is something done once like the womb of a girl.
• Usikana ishonga kamwe, chikuru umvana. Girlhood means splendor once (but) great remains motherhood.
• Rova chiuni amai vari kumunda. Beat a young girl while her mother is away in the field.

Mitauro yeBantu

• VaFwe vanoti mukazana (girl) kureva musikana. VaGiryama vanoti musichana (n. damsel, girl) kureva musikana.
• Chewa vanoti butu kana mautu (n. girl). Digo vanoti msichana (girl) kureva musikana. Chimbalazi vanoti manaamke (n. girl) kureva musikana.
• VaNyungwe vanoti mtsikana kana atsikana pakuwanda (girl/s) kureva musikana. VaKunda vanoti kasimbi (a small girl) kurfeva musikana mudiki.
• Baila vanoti mwana mushimbi kureva mwanasikana. Mamwe mazwi: kashimbi (small girl). VaLenje vanoti musimbi (big girl, young woman) kureva musikana mukuru.
• VaDigo vanoti mwari (girl who is betrothed or engaged to be married), musikana akavimbiswa kuroorwa. Maconde vanoti mwali kureva musikana.
• VaMaconde neVaMambwe vanoti mwali (girl - after initiation; a young woman of marriageable age), musikana akaita chinamwali.