zama

zama (plural zamas)

1. Synonym of zama-zama
   • 2017 June 29, Warren Thompson, “Sibanye could be losing R756m to illegal miners”, in The Citizen‎:

     There are “food syndicates” that only exist to supply food to zamas at mines in the West Wits and Free State.

• -azam, Azam, Maza, maza

From Latin sagma.

• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: za‧ma

zama inan

1. load, cargo

   Synonym: karga

   egur zama ― load of firewood

2. burden

   Mesede hori zuri egitea zama bat besterik ez da niretzat. ― Doing that favor for you is nothing but a burden for me.

• “zama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “zama”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /zá.máː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

zamā m (possessed form zaman)

1. sitting, dwelling, existence
2. verbal noun of zama

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 230.

zama f (invariable)

1. an alloy of zinc used especially for plumbing fixtures

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

-zama

1. to try

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

-zama

1. to try

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Borrowed from Arabic .

zama (n class, plural zama)

1. time, period

From *-zala (“to drown”) +‎ -ama

-zama (infinitive kuzama)

1. to sink, submerge
2. to dive

zama

1. (anatomy) tongue

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

-zama

1. (transitive) to try

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -za

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

-zama

1. to try, to attempt, to strive

• -za

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “zama”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “zama (6.3)”