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Entry (1/3)1 fosa
Part of speech  2 noun
Explanations in Malagasy  3Filazana kileman' olona tsy eo imasony, fanambarana ny toetran' ny hafa mba hanaratsiana azy. [1.1]
Explanations in English  4backbiting, calumniating, scandalizing. Comp. endrikendrika, manaratsy. [1.2]
Explanations in French  5diffamation, 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  143 combinations of this word
Proverbs  15 Proverbs containing that word
Entry (2/3)16 fôsa
Part of speech  17 noun
Explanations in Malagasy  18volana fahadimy amin'ny taona. [Taisaka, Tanosy] [1.78]
Explanations in French  [fosa] 19mois 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 adalo
24 adaoro
25 adijady
26 adimizana
27 adizaoza
28 afosa
29 alahamady
30 alahasaty
31 alakaosy
32 alakarabo
33 alakosy
34 alihotsy
35 alimizana
36 alohotsy
37 aogositra
38 aprily
39 asaramañitry
40 asaramanitse
41 asaramantsy
    42 asaramantsina
43 asombola
44 asoro
45 asorotany
46 asotry
47 asotrindambo
48 atsia
49 avrily
50 birae
51 biray
52 desambra
53 febroary
54 fehena
55 fevrie
56 hasaraboboka
57 hasaramanitra
58 hasaramantsy
59 hatsiha
60 hiahia
    61 janoary
62 jiona
63 jolay
64 jona
65 maka
66 manjonoke
67 marsa
68 martsa
69 mey
70 novambra
71 oktobra
72 ramadany
73 safary
74 sakamasay
75 sakase
76 sakave
77 sakavey
78 saramañitry
79 septambra
    80 tsaramañetry
81 tsehia
82 valasira
83 vala-tsira
84 vatravatra
85 volamaka
86 volambita
87 volambitabe
88 volambitafoa
89 volambity
90 volamitabe
91 volamitafoa
92 volamoka
93 volam-padina
94 volañaria
95 volasira
96 volatabe
97 zanvie
Entry (3/3)98 fosa
Part of speech  99 noun
Explanations in Malagasy  100Biby 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  101"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]
102a Malagasy carnivore something like a large mink. [1.7]
Explanations in French  103Cryptoprocta ferox, petit carnassier. [Taisaka] [1.82]
104genette fossane. [1.54]
105carnivore malagasy, espèce de genette. [1.8]
106fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox). [4.22]
Examples  107 Vory teo daholo hono ireo biby rehetra ireo tamin' io : ny fosa, ny akanga, ny papango. [1.508#]
108 nefa ny vorona sy ny araboa-dia, ny fosa, ny kary, nikarenjy tamin' ireny boalaboala ireny. [1.437#]
109 Fony izy mbola teto, saiky lany tamingana ny lambo sy ny fosa fa ny tsy matin' ny bala, voan' ny fandrika. [2.529#]
Vocabulary  110 Zoology: mammals
Scientific name 
Cryptoprocta ferox
   
Proverbs  111 Proverbs containing that word
Illustrations 
Anagrams  112 fôsa, fosa, 113 safo, 114 Sofa
Updated on 2025/11/06