nagana
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Zulu ulunakane, unakane.
Noun
nagana (uncountable)
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 460:
- In 1894 Major David Bruce was sent to Zululand to investigate the cattle disease nagana.
Translations
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From English nagana, from Zulu ulunakane.
Pronunciation
Noun
nagana
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 | — | |
| abessive | naganatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Italian
Alternative forms
Noun
nagana f (invariable)
- (pathology, veterinary medicine) nagana or n'gana (cattle disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei via tse-tse fly)
Northern Sotho
Verb
nagana
- to think
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
nagana f
Declension
Declension of nagana
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
nagana m inan
Further reading
- nagana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nagana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/ganić on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
