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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  19  [fosa] 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  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  100  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  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]
102  a Malagasy carnivore something like a large mink [1.7]
Explanations in French  103  Cryptoprocta ferox, petit carnassier [Taisaka] [1.82]
104  genette fossane [1.54]
105  carnivore malagasy, espèce de genette [1.8]
106  fosa (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 fosa, fôsa, 113 safo, 114 Sofa
Updated on 2025/10/11