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Shona Definition
Kuroora kunoita mwanakomana ndiko kunoreva kuti auyisa muroora pamhuri yababa vake. Mubereki oga oga ane mwanakomana anoziva kuti kugara nokugara pamusha pavo pachazouya muroora.
English Translation
Every son a family raises will one day marry and bring a wife into his father's home, so a household with many sons acquires many daughters-in-law. A girl, on marrying, joins her husband's family as its daughter-in-law.
Cultural Context
“Quoted in A. Munjanja, Rina manyanga hariputirwi, p. 37, in words spoken to a son-in-law.”
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