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/ˈləʊbələ/ · noun
(South Africa) The bride price among certain Bantu peoples of South Africa..
The cattle of the second kaffir had been obtained from the first kaffir as lobola; all (three) have died from the disease.
Some must give up their ground for trees, and some for pastures. And hardest of all would be the custom of lobola, by which a man pays for his wife in cattle, for people kept too many cattle for this purpose, and counted all their wealth in cattle, so that the grass had no chance to recover.
All the money he'd brought with him had gone into lobola – the dowry for a wife […].
My sister Baliwe, who was older than Mabel, had been engaged to be married, and lobola had already been paid.
Use lobola when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lobola means (South Africa) The bride price among certain Bantu peoples of South Africa..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include dowry.
The cattle of the second kaffir had been obtained from the first kaffir as lobola; all (three) have died from the disease.
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