What is mvana in chiShona?

[Borrowdale Barron]

What is the meaning of mvana because some people kinda define it differently from what I have heard?

 

[Scorpio]

In chiShona culture mvana is a woman who has a child (or children) out of wedlock and is still single—not married; or a woman who happens to be a divorcée whilst at the same time having one child (or more).

Bear in mind the word itself "mvana" is often thought of as derogatory.

I suppose this may be due to how some people use it.

Now here are other title names referring to the current status of a woman muChivanhu ("Shona culture"):

English	chiShona
Married woman	Mudzimai, Mai Mwana (or mukadzi wemunhu)
Widow	Shirikadzi
Maiden (virgin)	Mhandara
Deflowered (non-virgin young woman)	Musikana
Any mature woman (virgin or not)	Mukadzi
Single mother (or a single divorcée)	Mvana or bvana
Any woman who has given birth but is still married to her husband	Mumvana
Spinster	Tsikombi

P.S. There is also mvana mubhurugwa which means a woman who aborted her own baby without the help of a healthcare professional. Of course, abortion that's a topic constantly debated in contemporary times.

 

[Madison]

A single dad is called what in Shona?

 

[Silas Mavende]

A single dad is called what in Shona?

I don't think there is a term for that in Shona.

 

[Neith]

A single dad is called what in Shona?

Mvanarume.

 

[Chemanza]

This might be kinda random but I'd never settle down with a deij who has baby daddies.

 

[Tyrone]

Mvanarume.

That's slang and not proper Shona.

 

[Vasthy]

A single dad is called what?

Baba Bhoi (or "Baba Bhoyi").

 

[Zaynab]

I don't think there is a term for that in Shona.

That's because chiShona language is sorta misogynistic when it comes to descriptions.

 

[Lodza]

That's because chiShona language is sorta misogynistic when it comes to descriptions.

You have no idea what you are talking about. How can you call a language misogynistic?

 

[Zaynab]

You have no idea what you are talking about. How can you call a language misogynistic?

I didn't say the whole entire language I meant some parts of it.

 

[Penguin]

That's because chiShona language is sorta misogynistic when is come to descriptions.

It seems like you are projecting. How many baby daddies you have got, huh?

 

[Zaynab]

It seems like you are projecting. How many baby daddies you have got, huh?

Dude, get lost I don't have multiple baby daddies.

 

[Penguin]

Dude, get lost I don't have multiple baby daddies.

Oh I see, you don't have multiple baby daddies but you still have a baby daddy, is that correct?

 

[Zaynab]

Oh I see, you don't have multiple baby daddies but you still have a baby daddy, is that correct?

Y'all some bum ass weirdos. I can tell bro.

 

[Chad]

Y'all some bum ass weirdos. I can tell bro.

So what do you suggest?

The word mvana should be erased from all Shona dictionaries?

 

[Rumiko]

So what do you suggest?

The word mvana should be erased from all Shona dictionaries?

Yes, there should be a new politically correct word that doesn't have negative connotations.

 

[Leroy]

Yes, there should be a new politically correct word that doesn't have negative connotations.

That is a silly proposition if I have ever heard of one. What makes you think the same thing won't happen? And if it does happen—which is pretty obvious it will—we should have a new word again, and again? You know what? Something tells me y'all are slow. I don't mean any shade at all. I always come in peace. But hey, lol. You gotta be kidding me.

 

[Guinevere]

This might be kinda random but I'd never settle down with a deij who has baby daddies.

Why?

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Why?

Being a stepdad is the job of a simp. No deij is worth doing all that volunteer work for. It's not a good job for a fella to raise another man's child even if deijs shame you into doing so. You get absolutely nothing out of the deal. It's a completely thankless job.