Lobola
[loh-buh-luh] /ˈloʊ bə lə/
noun, plural lobolos.
1.
a bride price, typically of cattle, paid to a bride’s father among Bantu-speaking tribes of southern Africa.
/lɔːˈbɔːlə; ləˈbəʊ-/
noun
1.
(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
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