name
Kondwani
kon-DWAH-nee
kɒnˈdwɑːniListen
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Kondwani
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Yao (Malawi/Mozambique)
- Meaning
- a Yao masculine name meaning be happy or let us rejoice, expressing the joy that the community experiences at the birth of a son; the Yao are a matrilineal people whose social organisation centres on the maternal lineage, and the birth of children, whether male or female, is celebrated as an affirmation of the continuing vitality of the lineage group; Kondwani names a child as the occasion of communal celebration and frames his life from its beginning as something that brings happiness to those around him
- Gender
- male
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