zika

See also: Zika

English

Alternative forms

Noun

zika (uncountable)

  1. The disease caused by the Zika virus.
    • 2016 January 13, Jessica Glenza, “First case of tropical zika virus linked to serious birth defect found in Texas”, in The Guardian‎:
      Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get zika in our native mosquitoes.”
  2. The Zika virus.

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Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From mùzika.

Noun

zika f (Cyrillic spelling зика)

  1. (colloquial) music
    Synonyms: glàzba, mùzika

Spanish

Noun

zika m (plural zikas)

  1. zika
    • 2016 March, “El MSP ahora con vía libre para ir tras el Aedes aegypti”, in El Pais (Uruguay)‎:
      El Ministerio de Salud Pública (MSP) llamó a extremar las medidas para combatir al mosquito Aedes aegypti, transmisor de los virus del dengue, el zika y el chikungunya, a partir del regreso masivo de uruguayos que viajaron al exterior.
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Swahili

Pronunciation
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Verb

-zika (infinitive kuzika)

  1. to bury, inter
  2. to attend a funeral

Conjugation
Conjugation of -zika
Positive present -nazika
Subjunctive -zike
Negative -ziki
Imperative singular zika
Infinitives
Positive kuzika
Negative kutozika
Imperatives
Singular zika
Plural zikeni
Tensed forms
Habitual huzika
Positive past positive subject concord + -lizika
Negative past negative subject concord + -kuzika
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nazika)
Singular Plural
1st person ninazika/nazika tunazika
2nd person unazika mnazika
3rd person m-wa(I/II) anazika wanazika
other classes positive subject concord + -nazika
Negative present (negative subject concord + -ziki)
Singular Plural
1st person siziki hatuziki
2nd person huziki hamziki
3rd person m-wa(I/II) haziki hawaziki
other classes negative subject concord + -ziki
Positive future positive subject concord + -tazika
Negative future negative subject concord + -tazika
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -zike)
Singular Plural
1st person nizike tuzike
2nd person uzike mzike
3rd person m-wa(I/II) azike wazike
other classes positive subject concord + -zike
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sizike
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngezika
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singezika
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalizika
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalizika
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -azika)
Singular Plural
1st person nazika twazika
2nd person wazika mwazika
3rd person m-wa(I/II) azika wazika
m-mi(III/IV) wazika yazika
ji-ma(V/VI) lazika yazika
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chazika vyazika
n(IX/X) yazika zazika
u(XI) wazika see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwazika
pa(XVI) pazika
mu(XVIII) mwazika
Perfect positive subject concord + -mezika
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshazika
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -jazika
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kizika
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipozika
Consecutive kazika / positive subject concord + -kazika
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kazike
Object concord (indicative positive)
Singular Plural
1st person -nizika -tuzika
2nd person -kuzika -wazika/-kuzikeni/-wazikeni
3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mzika -wazika
m-mi(III/IV) -uzika -izika
ji-ma(V/VI) -lizika -yazika
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kizika -vizika
n(IX/X) -izika -zizika
u(XI) -uzika see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kuzika
pa(XVI) -pazika
mu(XVIII) -muzika
Reflexive -jizika
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -zika- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -zikaye -zikao
m-mi(III/IV) -zikao -zikayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -zikalo -zikayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -zikacho -zikavyo
n(IX/X) -zikayo -zikazo
u(XI) -zikao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -zikako
pa(XVI) -zikapo
mu(XVIII) -zikamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -zika)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yezika -ozika
m-mi(III/IV) -ozika -yozika
ji-ma(V/VI) -lozika -yozika
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chozika -vyozika
n(IX/X) -yozika -zozika
u(XI) -ozika see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kozika
pa(XVI) -pozika
mu(XVIII) -mozika
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Derived terms
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