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Shona Definition
Kubva makare kare vakuru vaiziva kuti panyama yehuku, musongora wayo kana kuti mutsipa wayo ndiwo unonaka kupinda mimwe mitezo. Saka vaiti chero mukadzi anenge auraya huku aifanira kusuma murume wake nokumupa musongora wayo.
English Translation
Of all the parts of a fowl, the neck ranked first for flavour. That made it the portion owed to a husband: any woman who had slaughtered a bird had to set the neck before him, and by that she let him know the bird had been killed on his account.
Cultural Context
“Reflects household custom governing how a wife honoured her husband in serving a fowl she had killed.”
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