Mapenzi
Chitonga for hardship or trouble, marking real difficulty around a child's birth.
Meaning and origin
Mapenzi names a birth that came with genuine difficulty for the family, following the Tonga habit of drawing names from hard circumstances just as readily as happy ones.
How to pronounce Mapenzi
| English (US) | mah-PEN-zee /maˈpɛnzi/ |
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