Mwana

child

Ukama uhu

Mwana ndiye akaberekwa nababa naamai. Vakuru vanodaidza munhu wose muduku kwavari kuti mwana. Mwana anowanzotora mutupo wababa vake. Vana vanofanira kuremekedza vabereki vavo.

Mienzaniso

Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko.

Mwana akaitwa baba achiri mudiki.

Nokuzarirwa kukuru, mai vakazoti, “Zvakanaka, Mwana’ngu.

DiviChildren and grandchildren

Anokudana kutiBaba / Amai

KukwazisaParents say mwanangu, 'my child'.

In English

Mwana means child, your son or daughter, and older people use it for anyone young enough to be their child.

Mwana is a child in relation to its parents, and also a baby or any young person still in need of care. Older people call any younger person mwana even when they are not related, and a grandparent may call a grandchild mwana womwana, 'child of my child'. The words for son (mwanakomana) and daughter (mwanasikana) are built on it.

A child normally takes the father's totem, and children are expected to speak to their parents in the respectful register. Parents address a son or daughter as mwanangu, 'my child'. The proverb 'Mwana asingachemi anofira mumbereko' (a child who does not cry dies in the sling) is quoted in a Dada Nerurimi story by a hungry young man as he sets off to ask for food.

Mibvunzo.

What does mwana mean in Shona?

Mwana means child or baby. It is also how older people refer to any young person, related or not.

What does mwanangu mean?

It means 'my child', the usual way a parent addresses a son or daughter.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

MukundaMukunda is a Shona word for daughter, used especially in Manyika; Zezuru speakers usually say mwanasikana.MwanakomanaMwanakomana means son, a male child of the family, traditionally looked to as the heir.MusikanaMusikana means a girl or young woman who is not yet married, and musikana wake, 'his girl', also means a man's girlfriend.MukomanaMukomana means a boy or young man who has not yet become a father, and a girl's mukomana is her boyfriend.MuzukuruMuzukuru means a grandchild, and also the child of your opposite-sex sibling: a man's sister's child or a woman's brother's child.

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