savanna

See also: Savanna and savaṇṇa

English

A lion in the savanna.

Alternative forms

• savannah

Etymology

From Spanish sabana, from Taíno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈvænə/
• Rhymes: -ænə

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Noun

savanna (countable and uncountable, plural savannas)

1. A tropical grassland with scattered trees

Derived terms

• savanna flower (Echites spp.)
• savanna glider (Petaurus ariel)
• savanna hawk
• savanna sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
• savanna wattle (Citharexylum spp.)
• savannization

Translations

tropical grassland with scattered trees

• Arabic: سَبْسَب m (sabsab), سَهْل العُشْبِي f (sahl ʕušbiy), سَافَانَا f (safānā)
• Armenian: սավաննա (hy) (savanna)
• Belarusian: сава́нна f (savánna)
• Bulgarian: савана (bg) f (savana)
• Catalan: sabana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稀樹草原／稀树草原 (xīshù cǎoyuán), 薩瓦納／萨瓦纳 (sàwǎnà)

• Coptic: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: savana (cs) f
• Danish: savanne (da) c
• Dutch: savanne (nl) f
• Esperanto: savano
• Finnish: savanni (fi)
• French: savane (fr) f
• Fula: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: sabana (gl)
• Georgian: სავანა (savana)
• German: Savanne (de) f
• Greek: σαβάνα (el) f (savána)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: סוואנה
• Hindi: सवाना (savānā)
• Hungarian: szavanna (hu)
• Italian: savana (it) f
• Japanese: サバンナ (ja) (sabanna), サバナ (sabana)
• Korean: 사바나 (ko) (sabana)
• Mapudungun: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: savanne (no) m
• Persian: ساوانا (fa) (sâvânâ)
• Portuguese: savana (pt), (Angola) anhara (pt) f, (Angola) chana (pt) f
• Russian: сава́нна (ru) f (savánna)
• Serbo-Croatian: savàna (sh) f
• Slovene: savana (sl) f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sabana (es) f
• Swahili: savana
• Swedish: savann (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabana
• Ukrainian: сава́нна f (savánna)
• Yoruba: ọ̀dàn

Further reading

• savanna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Crimean Tatar

Noun

savanna

1. savanna

Declension

Declension of savanna

nominative	savanna
genitive	savannanıñ
dative	savannağa
accusative	savannanı
locative	savannada
ablative	savannadan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Latvian

Noun

savanna f (4th declension)

1. savanna
2. savannah

Declension

Declension of savanna (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	savanna	savannas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	savannu	savannas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	savannas	savannu
dative (datīvs)	savannai	savannām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	savannu	savannām
locative (lokatīvs)	savannā	savannās
vocative (vokatīvs)	savanna	savannas