lobolaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈləʊbələ/

名詞

lobola (countable and uncountable, plural lobolas)

1. (South Africa) The bride price among certain Bantu peoples of South Africa.

   Antonym: dowry (from bride's family to groom's family)

   Hypernyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower < marriage-portion < price, fee, gift

   Coordinate terms: dower (likewise an assurance, but receivable at death rather than upon marriage); mahr (Islamic)

   • 1901 June 21, “The Rinderpest Outbreak”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 8:

     The cattle of the second kaffir had been obtained from the first kaffir as lobola; all (three) have died from the disease.

   • 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 33, in Cry, the Beloved Country‎, New York: Scribner, page 253:

     Some must give up their ground for trees, and some for pastures. And hardest of all would be the custom of lobola, by which a man pays for his wife in cattle, for people kept too many cattle for this purpose, and counted all their wealth in cattle, so that the grass had no chance to recover.

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 38:

     All the money he'd brought with him had gone into lobola – the dowry for a wife […].

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 213:

     My sister Baliwe, who was older than Mabel, had been engaged to be married, and lobola had already been paid.