nagana

• ngana

Borrowed from Zulu ulunakane, unakane.

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, published 2016, page 460:

     In 1894 Major David Bruce was sent to Zululand to investigate the cattle disease nagana.

• Anaang

From English nagana, from Zulu ulunakane.

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

nagana

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

• n'gana

nagana f (invariable)

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

nagana

1. to think

• IPA^(key): /naˈɡa.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: na‧ga‧na

Deverbal from naganić.

nagana f

1. (education) reprimand

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nagana m inan

1. genitive singular of nagan

• 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