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Yoshuwa
/yoh-SHOO-wah/
Xhosa
· a boy’s name
“Joshua; from Hebrew, “Yahweh is salvation.””
How to say it
yoh-SHOO-wah
Given to
Boys
Used in
South Africa
How common
rare