Mashona

[ muh-shon-uh, -shoh-nuh ]

noun

, plural Ma·sho·nas, (especially collectively) Ma·sho·na.

1. Shona ( def 1 ).

Mashona

/ məˈʃəʊnə /

noun

1. another name for the Shona

Example Sentences

Orpheus like, you might so charm him That a mere Mashona child's Hand could easily disarm him In those equatorial wilds.

From Project Gutenberg

The latter is the source of great dread to a Mashona, who fears that death or accident may overtake him through the instrumentality of some fellow-being who may perchance hold against him a grudge.

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It is too fine a country to be nothing but the shambles of a bloody butcher; this wide, lovely land calls for some nobler destiny than to be the necropolis of the wretched Mashona nation.

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All the Mashona boys had run away to their kraals, and there were no domestics or boys for public work, so the convicts, who were mostly Cape natives, were let out under a strong guard of white men and told off in gangs to do the work of digging earth to fill the sand-bags.

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In the Mashona tongue he made a soft little request: “Neega meena e’tambo Inkos.”

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