Consideration
| English Description |
Shona |
| dowry - money and/or cattle that, by Shona custom, a husband must pay to his wife's family before they can officially get married |
roora KMZ |
| fee paid to father-in-law for walking through morning dew |
rugumabeto M; rusvayadova KZ |
| fee paid for summoning father-in-law from where he was sitting |
kubvakumarara Z |
| fee paid to father-in-law for sitting down during marriage transactions |
garaiparukukwe Z |
| fee paid to father-in-law for stroking beard |
matekenyandebvu Z |
| fee paid for being allowed to ask about father-in-law's health |
uchiro Z |
| fee paid for being allowed to visit (before completion of marriage transactions) |
mbonano Z |
| small fee paid to father-in-law for, opening his mouth |
zaruramuromo KMZ |
| fee paid to father-in-law when the munyai opens his purse |
zarurahomwe KMZ |
| fee paid to father-in-law for climbing onto the wall of cattle kraal, before approving roora cattle |
hwiradanga KZ |
| fee paid to father-in-law for seeing his ddowry cattle |
mesoemombe KZ; mhangidzadanga M |
| fee paid to father-in-law for driving dowry cattle |
rushamhu Z |
| fee paid to father-in-law for permission to take wife to her husband's home |
rusumudzo KMZ |
| consideration paid to father-in-law when he has reached village to which his daughter has eloped |
nhumburamafeso KZ |