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‖ lobola|ˈləʊbələ|
Also loboler, lobolo.
[a. Nguni, f. ukulobola to give a dowry.]
The South African native custom of marriage by purchase. Also, the price or present given for a bride according to this custom. Also attrib.
1825N. Isaacs Jrnl. 25 Oct. in Trav. E. Afr. (1836) I. iii. 49 Jacob had become enamoured of Enslopee's sister, and had sent three head of cattle to ‘Lololer’. 1897Daily News 17 July 5/6 Mr. Rhodes..pointed out that the old system of lobola was equivalent to the custom of marriage settlement in vogue with the whites. 1901Edin. Rev. Oct. 302 The custom of lobola—i.e. the marriage gift of cattle to the bride's father—stands in the way of many Kafir marriages. 1905Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 9/2 The native custom of passing cattle, known variously as ‘lobolo’, ‘ikazi’, and ‘bohadi’, in connexion with marriage. Ibid. 8 Sept. 5/1 Many of the natives are able to find the lobola for the luxury of additional wives. 1953D. Lessing Five v. 248 And when our sister marries, he will have her cattle and her lobola money. 1957G. Muldoon Trumpeting Herd ix. 95 According to the Angoni custom, the aunts and not the parents are responsible for fixing the Lobola, or payment for the bride. 1971Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 9/6, I have since paid part of the lobola to her parents. 1972Police Rev. 24 Nov. 1520/3 [Rhodesia] A man may take, under tribal rites, as many wives as he can afford and he pays a bride price (called lobolo) for each. |