nagana

See also: naganą and nagȧna

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Zulu ulunakane, unakane.

Noun

nagana (uncountable)

  1. (veterinary medicine) A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies. [from 19th c.]
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 460:
      In 1894 Major David Bruce was sent to Zululand to investigate the cattle disease nagana.

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Finnish

Etymology

From English nagana, from Zulu ulunakane.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɑɡɑnɑ/, [ˈnɑɡɑnɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑɡɑnɑ
  • Syllabification(key): na‧ga‧na

Noun

nagana

  1. (pathology) nagana (sleeping disease occurring in animals)

Declension

Inflection of nagana (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative nagana
genitive naganan
partitive naganaa
illative naganaan
singular plural
nominative nagana
accusative nom. nagana
gen. naganan
genitive naganan
partitive naganaa
inessive naganassa
elative naganasta
illative naganaan
adessive naganalla
ablative naganalta
allative naganalle
essive naganana
translative naganaksi
instructive
abessive naganatta
comitative
Possessive forms of nagana (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person naganani naganamme
2nd person naganasi nagananne
3rd person naganansa

Italian

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Noun

nagana f (invariable)

  1. (pathology, veterinary medicine) nagana or n'gana (cattle desease caused by Trypanosoma brucei via tse-tse fly)

Northern Sotho

Verb

nagana

  1. to think

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈɡa.na/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: na‧ga‧na

Noun

nagana f

  1. reprimand
Declension
adjective
noun

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

nagana m

  1. genitive singular of nagan

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