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nagana en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Zulu ulunakane, unakane.

Meanings

(uncountable) A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies.
- In 1894 Major David Bruce was sent to Zululand to investigate the cattle disease nagana. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 460:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
ngana		alternative	lexicographic

Deriveds

paranagana · nagana pest

Translations (4)

es nagana (disease of vertebrates) · it nagana (disease of vertebrates) · fi nagana (disease of vertebrates) · it n'gana (disease of vertebrates)