Shona

See also: shona

English

Pronunciation

• • Audio (Southern England):

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• 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 (šona)
• Khmer: ឝុណា (shunɑɑ)
• Korean: 쇼나어 (syona'eo)
• Portuguese: xona (pt)
• Russian: шо́на (ru) m (šóna)
• Shona: chiShona, Chishona
• Swahili: Kishona (sw)
• 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 (plural Shonas or Shona)

1. A member of the Bantu tribes who speak Shona.
   • 2015, Khoza Mduduzi, The West Stole Africa's Wealth:

     It's not relevant for the purpose of my discussion who got to Zimbabwe first between the Shonas and the Ndebeles.

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.

Derived terms

• Shonda

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)