name
Mwaba
MWAH-bah
ˈmwɑːbɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Mwaba
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Bemba (Zambia)
- Meaning
- a Bemba masculine name meaning the inheritor or one who receives the legacy; Bemba society is matrilineal and inheritance of land, clan membership, and certain forms of political authority pass through the mother's line; names honouring inheritance acknowledge the responsibility that comes with receiving the accumulated wealth, knowledge, and social standing of prior generations; a man named Mwaba is understood as the current link in a long chain of ancestral continuity
- Gender
- male
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