• Shona word tsiva in the Shona Dictionary
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tsiva
/t͡siʋa/

• ideophone
• synonyms: tsivarara
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru

English translation

payback

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tsiva
/t͡siʋa/

• noun , class(9)
• synonyms: chibhakera, tsama
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru

English translation

revenge

To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; – followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

tsiva
/t͡siʋa/

• verb
• synonyms: tsihana
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Manyika, Zezuru

English translation

retaliate

To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]