shona

1. 1.

   a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe

   BroaderBantu
2. 2.

   a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe

   BroaderBantu

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of the culture of the Shonas

Other forms of shona

plural

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.

Questions about shona

What does shona mean?

shona means "a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shona?

shona has 2 syllables: sho-na. The stress falls on "sho". In IPA it is /ˈʃoʊnə/.

Is shona a common word?

shona is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.