gismu mnemonics

The English gismu list has mnemonics for some of the gismu, but not all. The following list is for mnemonics that don't occur in the gismu list, and mnemonics for other languages than English.

There are quite a few gismu which have a similarity to Hebrew because of its similarity to Arabic.

bakni

bakar Arabic: bakar Chinese: niu Hung.: bika

cando

"Idle? I can do that!"

catra

katal (Hebrew) Arabic: katal Chin.: sha Span.: matar

ciska

katav (Hebrew) Arabic: katab Chin.: xie

cmene

cem (Hebrew)

dakli

sak (Hebrew) Arabic:zakib (Not sure if this is actually related or just a coincidence) Hebrew's related to Germ./Engl.: sack

janco

"January gives you the cold shoulder."

jarco

"Let me show you what's in the jar."

jbini

bein (Hebrew) Arabic: bin

jenmi

enemy

jivna

mannjevning (Norwegian)

jukni

djuk (Hebrew) This is a loanword from Russian, isn't it? Why isn't the Russian clue "juk"?

kanro

A healthy person can row for a long time.

krixa

krichat' (Russian)

kurki

gorki (Russian)

matne

manteiga (Portuguese)

nanba

naan (Hindi, Farsi)

pruxi

ruach (Hebrew) related to the Arabic

sanmi

taam (Hebrew) Arabic: taam

tinsa

tense

toknu

tanur (Hebrew) is this related to the Hindi "tandur"?

vajni

vazhny (Russian)

vensa

vesna (Russian)

xamsi

iam (Hebrew) Arabic: iam

xasli

xamor (Hebrew) Arabic: ximur

xatra

mixtav (Hebrew) Arabic: xitab

Reorganized into alphabetical order. It was time.