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Shona Definition

Kuti tya kurira kunoita tyava kana kuti huni dziri kuvhunwa. Kuti tya kubaya kunoita mabayo muchipfuva chemunhu. Kana munhu akati tya anenge akarara hope dzakasimba kwazvo. pfodo .

English Translation

The sound of a whip cracking or of firewood being snapped. Also describes the stabbing of pains in a person's chest, and used of a person who is fast asleep (compare pfodo).

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