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bwazhamu

Shona Definition

Kuti bwazhamu kuputsa chinhu. Akati hari yaambuya vake yavaiumba bwazhamu. Kuti bwazhamu kurova munhu kana mhuka nesanzu diki risina kubviswa mashizha.

English Translation

Describes breaking something — he went bwazhamu on the clay pot his grandmother had moulded; also used of striking a person or animal with a small switch from which the leaves have not been stripped.

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