amahubo, plural noun
- Plurals:
- unchanged.
- Origin:
- IsiZuluShow more From isiZulu ihubo hymn or psalm.
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A collective term for traditional songs, hymns, or war chants associated with Zulu tradition and typically performed in ceremonial contexts. Also attributive.
2011 dscontrols.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Ugubhu is played on using a dried stalk of uqunga grass, to accompany the slow amahubo dirges employed in indigenous storytelling and ceremonial song.
2017 sowetanlive.co.za (DSAE Corpus)The events serve as a platform for the queens to interact with maidens on what they are expected to wear at the main celebration, to teach them amahubo [traditional hymns] and to encourage maidens..to remain pure, said the department.
A collective term for traditional songs, hymns, or war chants associated with Zulu tradition and typically performed in ceremonial contexts. Also attributive.
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