Amai

mother

Ukama uhu

Amai ndivo mubereki wako wechikadzi akakubereka. Vakoma nevanin'ina vaamai vanonzi amaiguru naamainini. Pakuroora, amai vemusikana vanopiwa mombe yeumai nezvipo zvembereko. Mukadzi anowanzodaidzwa nezita remwana wake, sokuti mai vaSekai.

Mienzaniso

Anoti amai vane rudo rwakadzama, vanoraira uye vane chiremera.

“Ewoi amai,” akadaira Chengetai opinda mumba.

Amai vakanga vachiziva mbavha yakaba mari yavo.

DiviMother's side

Anokudana kutiMwana

KukwazisaAmai, often shortened to mai. A woman is also called mai or amai followed by her child's name, as in mai vaSekai.

In English

Amai is the Shona word for mother, and the mother's sisters are also mothers, called amaiguru if older and amainini if younger.

Amai is your mother. At roora the bride's mother is honoured in her own right: gifts called mbereko and mafukidzadumbu recall the sling she carried the baby in and the months she carried it in the womb, and unlike the father's gifts they are fixed rather than bargained over. The most important of the cattle, mombe yeumai, is a live cow for the mother, expected to bear a calf as a sign that the marriage is blessed, since the mother's ancestral spirits are held to have strong influence over a family's wellbeing.

Her sisters are mothers too: your mother's older sister is amaiguru and her younger sister amainini, and the wives of your father's brothers are called the same way. Respect for parents stands among the first duties in Shona custom, and children are expected to speak to them in the respectful register (chinyarikani). A married woman is often known through her child, as in mai vaSekai or amai vaMonika in the textbook stories, and mai is the common short form.

Mibvunzo.

What is the Shona word for mother?

Amai, often shortened to mai. Your mother's older sister is amaiguru and her younger sister amainini, and both are treated as mothers.

What is mombe yeumai?

It is the cow given to the bride's mother during roora. It is expected to bear a calf as a sign that the marriage is blessed, and it is the most important of the roora cattle.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

SekuruSekuru is also the Shona term for your mother's brother, the maternal uncle, who calls his sister's children vazukuru.AmaiguruAmaiguru, often shortened to maiguru, is your mother's elder sister, and the same title is used for the wife of your father's elder brother.AmaininiAmainini, often shortened to mainini, is your mother's younger sister, and the same title is used for the wife of your father's younger brother.

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