Mwanakomana

son

Ukama uhu

Mwanakomana mwana wechikomana. Kare mwanakomana ainzi mudyi wenhaka mumhuri. Mombe dzababa dzaisarira vanakomana kuti vazoroora nadzo. Pamitambo yemufi, vanakomana vanoremekedzwa zvichienderana nezera ravo.

Mienzaniso

Aingozvara vanasikana chete asi murume wake nehama dzake vaive vachitarisira mwanakomana mudyi wenhaka.

Rimwe zuva agere zvake Musuruvari akaona mwanakomana wake Chirisamhuru ouya paari aine vaenzi.

Imwewo mari zhinji yainge yava kupera kuenda kunobhadhara mari yechikoro yaTawanda mwanakomana wavo wokutanga uyo ainge ava paUniversity of Zimbabwe.

DiviChildren and grandchildren

Anokudana kutiBaba / Amai

KukwazisaMwanangu, 'my child', as for any child.

In English

Mwanakomana means son, a male child of the family, traditionally looked to as the heir.

Mwanakomana is built from mwana (child) and the stem of mukomana (boy), and means your son. In the old order a son was looked to as the mudyi wenhaka, the one who would inherit: the O-Level study pack's notes on one poem describe a wife who bore only daughters while her husband and his relatives waited for a son to be heir. When a father's belongings were shared out, his cattle were usually kept for his sons to use for their own roora.

Sons have a set place in the rites for a dead father. After a burial the older sons went with the dead man's brothers on the journey to a diviner (gata) to learn the cause of death, and at kurova guva the ritual friend served beer to each son in order of age.

Mibvunzo.

What is the Shona word for son?

Mwanakomana. The word for daughter is mwanasikana.

What does mudyi wenhaka mean?

It means 'the one who eats the inheritance', the heir. In the old order a son was looked to as the family's mudyi wenhaka.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

MwanaMwana means child, your son or daughter, and older people use it for anyone young enough to be their child.MukundaMukunda is a Shona word for daughter, used especially in Manyika; Zezuru speakers usually say mwanasikana.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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