Baba

father

Ukama uhu

Baba ndivo mubereki wako wechirume. Mwana anowanzotora mutupo wababa vake. Vakoma nevanin'ina vababa vanonziwo baba, vachidaidzwa kuti babamukuru kana babamunini. Mukadzi anogona kudaidza murume wake achiti baba vevana.

Mienzaniso

Aiwa baba vevana, chiregai kudaro vana vachizvinzwa.

Gore rakapera baba vakatengera vana vose hembe dzakanaka.

Baba vakachengeta mhuri yavo munzara.

DiviFather's side

Anokudana kutiMwana

KukwazisaBaba. A wife may address her husband as baba vevana (father of the children), and a man is often called baba followed by his child's name, as in baba vaMonika.

In English

Baba is the Shona word for father, and the same word is used for a father's brothers, for a spouse's father and, as a mark of respect, for any older man.

Baba is your father. Shona kinship is traced first through him: a child normally takes the father's totem, and takes the mother's only when the father is not known. In roora the bride's father receives his own gifts of thanks for raising his daughter, called matekenyandebvu, a name that recalls a small child on his knee pulling at his beard.

The word reaches well beyond one man. A father's brothers are babamukuru and babamunini and are counted as fathers too, so firmly that an elder brother seldom inherited his late younger brother's widow, because he was already regarded as a father to that household. Baba is also said to the father of your husband or wife and, out of respect, to any older man. A wife may address her husband as baba vevana, 'father of the children', and a man is often named through his child, as in baba vaMonika.

Mibvunzo.

What does baba mean in Shona?

Baba means father. The same word covers a father's brothers (babamukuru and babamunini), the father of your husband or wife, and it is a respectful way to speak to any older man.

What does baba vevana mean?

It means 'father of the children'. A wife can use it to address her husband, as a woman does in a story in the O-Level Shona study pack: 'Aiwa baba vevana, chiregai kudaro vana vachizvinzwa.'

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

SekuruSekuru means grandfather in Shona, on either side of the family, and the same word is used for your mother's brother.AmbuyaAmbuya means grandmother in Shona, the mother of either parent, and the grandmother was traditionally the family's teller of folk tales.BabamukuruBabamukuru is your father's elder brother, counted in Shona families as a senior father.BabamuniniBabamunini is your father's younger brother, counted in Shona families as a junior father.TeteTete is your father's sister, the aunt who counsels her brother's children, above all the girls, on conduct and marriage.NevanjiNevanji is given as the Shona term for the heir who takes up a dead relative's name, place and duties, though one Shona dictionary defines it as a family's first-born son.

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