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say it: SHOH-nuh
shona is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe". It is pronounced /ˈʃoʊnə/ — SHOH-nuh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of the culture of the Shonas
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shona come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.