• Shona word dama in the Shona Dictionary
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dama
/ɗama/

• noun , class(5)
• synonyms: chirebvu, shoko, yambiro
• dialects/origins: Zezuru

English translation

cheek

1. Either of the two sides of the face below the eyes.

2. Something regarded as resembling the human cheek in form or position; one of two pieces, as of an instrument, apparatus, framework, etc., which form corresponding sides or which are double and alike.

3. A cheek-bone; a jaw-bone.

4. In entomology, the gena, or that part of an insect's head which lies between the eye and the mouth-cavity. This region sometimes becomes very prominent, as in certain of the Diptera.

5. The edible portion of the large sea-clam, Maetra solidissima.

6. Sound advice: as, dama raka naka.