Word "flag" in Shona

Last modified: 2025-06-19 by antónio martins
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mureza

• Word " mureza "

• Genetic affiliation: > Kongo-Saharan > Niger-Congo > Atlantic-Congo > Volta-Congo > Benue-Congo > Bantoid > Southern Bantoid > Narrow Bantu > Central Narrow Bantu > Southern Bantu (= S) > Shona (= S.10) > Central Shona
• External links:
  • About Shona (sna) in the ISO 639-3 website
  • About Shona (sna) in Ethnologue.com
  • About Shona (sna) in Glottolog.org
  • About Shona in the English Wikipedia

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Word " mureza "

Word:

mureza

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

(uniques)

Noun class:

³ (Bantu class 3 noun)

Meaning:

flag

Remarks:

This spelling in both current and previous (1931-1955) orthographies.

External links:

• Used in the Shona Wikipedia article about the flag of Zimbabwe (“Mureza weZimbabwe”).
• VaShona Project - English-Shona online dictionary: "flag".
• Shona Bible quote: Song of Solomon 2:4.

According to this English-Shona dictionary, this word’s semantics is «To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.» According to the Google Translate online dictionary, this word, when capitalized means "Calendar", but in lower case, it is translated as "flag", though.
António Martins, 04 May 2018

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