Kinyarwanda
ishoka
i-SHO-ka
How to say it
Kinyarwandaishokai-SHO-kasoon
Englishaxesoon
Frenchhachesoon
Meaning
a hand tool with a heavy blade for chopping wood; an axe.
Good to know
Perhaps the most widely used of several Kinyarwanda words for axe (alongside incabiti, intorezo, indyankwi).
Examples
- Yatemye igiti akoresheje ishoka rye.He cut down the tree with his axe.
- Ishoka ryahenutse rigomba gusywa.The blunt axe needs to be sharpened.
- Ese ushobora kumpa ishoka nkate inkwi?Can you give me the axe so I can chop firewood?
- Nta shoka yasigaye ku isoko uyu munsi.There was no axe left at the market today.
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