• Shona word bhadhara in the Shona Dictionary
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bhadhara
/ɓ̤aɗ̤ara/

• verb
• synonyms: ripa
• dialects/origins: Afrikaans

English translation

pay

1. To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
2. Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
3. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
4. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.

bhadhara
/ɓ̤aɗ̤ara/

• ideophone
• synonyms: bhadha
• dialects/origins: Zezuru