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Entry (1/3)1  fosa
Part of speech  2  noun
Explanations in Malagasy  3 Filazana kileman' olona tsy eo imasony, fanambarana ny toetran' ny hafa mba hanaratsiana azy. [1.1]
Explanations in English  4 backbiting, calumniating, scandalizing. Comp. endrikendrika, manaratsy. [1.2]
Explanations in French  5 diffamation, dénigrement, rapports faits en cachette et souvent exagérés, médisance. [1.3#188]
Derivatives 
Active verbs :6  mifosa
Passive verbs :7  afosa, 8  fosaina, 9  voafosa
Relative verbs :10  ifosana
Names :11  fifosa, 12  fifosana, 13  mpifosa
All compound words  14  3 combinations of this word
Proverbs  15  Proverbs containing that word
Entry (2/3)16  fôsa
Part of speech  17  noun
Explanations in Malagasy  18 volana fahadimy amin'ny taona. [Taisaka, Tanosy] [1.78]
Explanations in French  [fosa] 19 mois de mai. [Taisaka] [1.82]
Examples  20  ny fosa dia ho Adaoro ny Maka dia ho Adizaoza [2.113#]
Vocabulary  21  Time
Hyperonym 
22  volana
   
Co-hyponyms 
23  adaoro
24  adijady
25  adimizana
26  adizaoza
27  afosa
28  alahamady
29  alahasaty
30  alakaosy
31  alakarabo
32  alakosy
33  alihotsy
34  alimizana
35  alohotsy
36  aogositra
37  aprily
38  asaramañitry
39  asaramanitse
40  asaramantsy
41  asaramantsina
42  asombola
43  asoro
44  asorotany
45  asotry
46  asotrindambo
47  atsia
    48  avrily
49  birae
50  biray
51  desambra
52  febroary
53  fehena
54  fevrie
55  hasaraboboka
56  hasaramanitra
57  hasaramantsy
58  hatsiha
59  hiahia
60  janoary
61  jiona
62  jolay
63  jona
64  maka
65  manjonoke
66  marsa
67  martsa
68  mey
69  novambra
70  oktobra
71  ramadany
72  safary
    73  sakamasay
74  sakase
75  sakave
76  sakavey
77  saramañitry
78  septambra
79  tsaramañetry
80  tsehia
81  valasira
82  vala-tsira
83  vatravatra
84  volamaka
85  volambita
86  volambitabe
87  volambitafoa
88  volambity
89  volamitabe
90  volamitafoa
91  volamoka
92  volam-padina
93  volañaria
94  volasira
95  volatabe
96  zanvie
Entry (3/3)97  fosa
Part of speech  98  noun
Explanations in Malagasy  99 Biby mpihina-nofombiby hafa, mitovy habe amin' ny alika ary mitovy endrika amin' ny saka; manja mena ny volony ary mena ny masony; loza raha hiani-kazo; tsy mivoaka raha tsy amin' ny alina andripahany ny akoho amam-borona. [1.1]
Explanations in English  100 "A small and graceful cat-like animal peculiar to Madagascar (both the genus and the family of which it is the sole member are confined to the island), formerly classed among the Viverridae, but now considered to form a distinct family between the cats and civets." It is a plantigrade animal and extremely ferocious. Cryptoprocta ferox , Benn. Probably the same as pintsala. Also the name of a species of civet, of a peculiar genus, D'Aubenton's fossane. Fossa d'Aubentonii, Gray.. [1.2]
101 a Malagasy carnivore something like a large mink. [1.7]
Explanations in French  102 Cryptoprocta ferox, petit carnassier. [Taisaka] [1.82]
103 genette fossane. [1.54]
104 carnivore malagasy, espèce de genette. [1.8]
105 fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox). [4.22]
Examples  106  Vory teo daholo hono ireo biby rehetra ireo tamin' io : ny fosa, ny akanga, ny papango. [1.508#]
107  nefa ny vorona sy ny araboa-dia, ny fosa, ny kary, nikarenjy tamin' ireny boalaboala ireny. [1.437#]
108  Fony izy mbola teto, saiky lany tamingana ny lambo sy ny fosa fa ny tsy matin' ny bala, voan' ny fandrika. [2.529#]
Vocabulary  109  Zoology: mammals
Scientific name 
Cryptoprocta ferox
   
Proverbs  110  Proverbs containing that word
Illustrations 
Anagrams  111 fôsa, fosa, 112 safo, 113 Sofa
Updated on 2025/11/12