• Shona word bopoto in the Shona Dictionary
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bopoto
/ɓópótó/

• noun , class(5)
• synonyms: chikonzero, chinetswa, humboo, hurukuro, nhauriro
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru

English translation

argument

1. A statement or fact tending to produce belief concerning a matter in doubt; a premise or premises set forth in order to prove an assumption or conclusion.
2. A reasoning; the process by which the connection between that which is or is supposed to be admitted and that which is doubted or supposed to need confirmation is traced or tested.
3. An address or composition made for the purpose of producing belief or conviction by reasoning or persuasion.
4. A series of argumentations for and against a proposition; a debate.
5. The subject-matter or groundwork of a discourse or writing; specifically, an abstract or summary of the chief points in a book or section of a book.
6. Matter of contention, controversy, or conversation.
7. In mathematics : (a) Of an imaginary quantity, the coefficient of the imaginary unit in its logarithm, (b) The angle or quantity on which a series of numbers in a numerical table depends and with which the table is entered.
8. Proof; evidence.