• Shona word dana in the Shona Dictionary
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dana
/ɗana/

• verb
• synonyms: daidza, sheedza, shevedza
• dialects/origins: Zezuru

English translation

call

1. To invite or command to come; summon to one's presence; send for.

2. To attract or demand the attention of (a person or an animal), or arouse, as from sleep, by loudly uttering to other word or exclamation.

3. To convoke; assemble; issue a summons for the assembling of: as, to call a meeting: often with pamwe: as, Mambo adana kanzuru yake pamwe.

4. To name; apply to by way of name or designation.

5. To designate or characterize as; state or affirm to be; reckon; consider.

6. To indicate or point out as being; manifest, reckon, or suppose to be.

7. To select, as for an office, a duty, or an employment; appoint.

8. In shooting, to lure, as wild birds, within range by imitating their notes—

3. To utter in a loud voice; read over in a loud tone: hence, to pronounce or announce.