zika

See also: Zika

English

Alternative forms

• Zika

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^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• Zika disease
• Zika fever
• Zika virus

 

Further reading

• Zika virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kazi, Zaki, kazi

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)‎^[2]:

     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

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -zikwa (“to be buried”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • maziko (“funeral”)
  • mazishi (“funeral”)
  • mziko (“burial”)