Shona

See also: shona

English

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Shona

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊnə/, /ˈʃoʊnə/
• Rhymes: -əʊnə

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Shona

1. A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 225:

     I didn’t know anyone who spoke fluent Shona in the area.

Translations

language

Armenian: շոնա (hy) (šona) Bengali: শোনা ভাষা (śōna bhaśa) Chinese: Mandarin: 修納語 / 修纳语 (Xiūnà yǔ), 紹納語 / 绍纳语 (Shàonà yǔ) Dutch: Shona (nl) n Faroese: sjona n Finnish: shona (fi) French: shona (fr) m Kazakh: шона (şona) Khmer: ឝុណា (shunɑɑ) Korean: 쇼나어 (syona'eo) Portuguese: xona (pt) Russian: шо́на (ru) m (šóna) Shona: chiShona, Chishona Swahili: Kishona Turkish: Şona dili (tr)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Shona terms
• Wikipedia article on the language Shona

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code sn, ISO 639-3 code sna (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Shona, sna ⁠

Noun

Shona pl (plural only)

1. The Bantu tribes who speak Shona.

Etymology 2

Scottish Anglicized form of Seonag ( =Joan) and an American variant of Shauna.

Proper noun

Shona

1. A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.

Anagrams

• Noah's, Noahs, has on, nasho

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.naː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Sho‧na
• Rhymes: -oːnaː

Proper noun

Shona n

1. Shona (African language)