| Entry |
fosa
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| Part of speech | noun
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| | Filazana kileman' olona tsy eo imasony, fanambarana ny toetran' ny hafa mba hanaratsiana azy [1.1]
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| | Backbiting, calumniating, scandalizing. Comp. endrikendrika,
manaratsy
[1.2]
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| | Diffamation, dénigrement, rapports faits en cachette et souvent exagérés, médisance [1.3]
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| Entry |
fôsa
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| Part of speech | noun
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| | [Taisaka, Tanosy]
Volana fahadimy amin'ny taona [1.78]
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| | [Taisaka]
[ fosa ] Mois de mai [1.82]
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| Vocabulary |
| Examples | ny Fosa dia ho Adaoro ny Maka dia ho Adizaoza
[2.113]
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| Entry |
fosa
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| Part of speech | noun
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| | 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]
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| | "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]
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| | A Malagasy carnivore something like a large mink [1.7]
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| | [Taisaka]
Cryptoprocta ferox, petit carnassier
[1.82]
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| | Genette fossane [1.54]
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| | Carnivore malagasy, espèce de genette [1.8]
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| | Fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) [4.22]
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| Vocabulary |
| Scientific name | Cryptoprocta ferox |
| Examples |
| 1 | Vory teo daholo hono ireo biby rehetra ireo tamin' io : ny fosa, ny akanga, ny papango.
[1.508]
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| 2 | nefa ny vorona sy ny araboa-dia, ny fosa, ny kary, nikarenjy tamin' ireny boalaboala ireny.
[1.437]
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| 3 | Fony izy mbola teto, saiky lany tamingana ny lambo sy ny fosa fa ny tsy matin' ny bala, voan' ny fandrika.
[2.529]
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