Babamunini

father's younger brother

Ukama uhu

Babamunini munin'ina wababa vako. Anoonekwa sababa, uye kare ndiye aigara nhaka kana mukoma wake afa. Murume wamainini anonziwo babamunini. Paunomukwazisa unoomba maoko, sezvinoitwa kuvakuru vose.

Mienzaniso

“Kwaziwai babamunini”, ndavaForomani Murambiwa vaingotaura vachiita zvokuomba kunge ngunzi iri mudanga mayo.

Babamunini vake vaiva vafira mumugodhi waive mupurazi iri vachidzinganisana naFillia.

DiviFather's side

KukwazisaBabamunini, greeted with a clap, as in 'Kwaziwai babamunini'.

In English

Babamunini is your father's younger brother, counted in Shona families as a junior father.

Babamunini is the younger brother of your father, and the husband of your mother's younger sister is called the same; a Shona dictionary adds that a married woman also calls her husband's younger brother babamunini. Like babamukuru he is regarded as a father. When a man died it was his younger brothers, not his elder ones, who had the right to succeed him, because they were counted as fathers to his children. The brother next in age was usually expected to take on the widow, often after a year or once the grave ceremony had been held, though she could decline by presenting a plate or a staff.

Day to day the relationship is warm but respectful, and he is greeted with a clap like any elder: a Dada Nerurimi passage shows a young man saying 'Kwaziwai babamunini' while clapping his hands. A novel summarised in the O-Level study pack turns on a young man's claim that his babamunini wanted the wealth his late father had left him.

Mibvunzo.

Who is babamunini in Shona?

Babamunini is your father's younger brother. The husband of your mother's younger sister is also called babamunini.

Who inherited a widow in Shona custom?

Traditionally one of the dead man's younger brothers, usually the one next in age, because they were counted as fathers to his children. An elder brother seldom did, and the widow could decline by presenting a plate or a staff.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

BabaBaba 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.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.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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