shoka

How to say it

Meaning

A tool with a heavy iron blade fixed on a long wooden handle, used for chopping wood and felling trees.

Good to know

Plural mashoka (shoka hili, mashoka haya). Mchezo wa kukata na shoka, literally a game of cutting with an axe, is a sports phrase for a hard fought match.

Examples

• Baba alichukua shoka akaenda kukata kuni.Father took an axe and went to chop firewood.
• Shoka hili limepata kutu, linahitaji kunolewa.This axe has rusted; it needs sharpening.
• Wakulima walitumia mashoka kusafisha shamba jipya.The farmers used axes to clear the new field.

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