zika

• Zika

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.

• Zika virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kazi, Zaki, kazi

From mùzika.

zika f (Cyrillic spelling зика)

1. (colloquial) music

   Synonyms: glàzba, mùzika

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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-zika (infinitive kuzika)

1. to bury, inter
2. to attend a funeral

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

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