noun

MEANING 1.

At the first cock crow.

EXAMPLE OF USE

Tukabuka pa kafwa mfumu. MEANING We will wake up when the first cock crow.

OTHER RELATED WORD/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTIONS:

ETYMOLOGY: it was the moment when the death of a chief was made public so as to catch all the people in bed, and arrest those tired to escape the carnage that usually followed.