lo·bo·la

(lō′bə-lə)

The bride price paid by a prospective husband among certain peoples in southern Africa.

[Zulu -lóbólà, dowry, give a dowry.]

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lobola

(lɔːˈbɔːlə; ləˈbəʊ-) or

lobolo

(Anthropology & Ethnology) (in southern Africa) an African custom by which a bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family shortly before the marriage

[from Nguni ukulobola to give the bride price]

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lobola

noun (S. African) dowry, portion, marriage settlement, dot (archaic) Following the tradition of lobola, the king's family paid 40 head of cattle for his new wife.

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