# zama
## English
### Noun

zama (plural zamas)
* Synonym of zama-zama
** 2017 June 29, Warren Thompson, “Sibanye could be losing R756m to illegal miners”, in The Citizen‎:There are “food syndicates” that only exist to supply food to zamas at mines in the West Wits and Free State.

### Anagrams

* -azam, Azam, Maza, maza

## Basque
### Etymology

From Latin sagma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̻ama/ [s̻a.ma]
* IPA: (most dialects) /s̻ama/ [s̻a.ma]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /s̺ama/ [s̺a.ma]
* Rhymes: -ama, -a
* Hyphenation: za‧ma

### Noun

zama inan
* load, cargo
    Synonym: karga
    egur zama ― load of firewood
* burden
    Mesede hori zuri egitea zama bat besterik ez da niretzat. ― Doing that favor for you is nothing but a burden for me.

#### Derived terms

* zamagarri
* zamaka
* zamaketa
* zamaketari
* zamalan
* zamaleku
* zamaontzi
* zamari
* zamategi
* zamatu
* zamatzaile
* zamatze
* zamaxka

### Further reading

* “zama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “zama”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zá.máː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [zə́.máː]

### Noun

zamā m (possessed form zaman)
* sitting, dwelling, existence
* verbal noun of zama

### References

* Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 230.

## Italian
### Noun

zama f (invariable)
* an alloy of zinc used especially for plumbing fixtures

## Japanese
### Romanization

zama
* Rōmaji transcription of ざま

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

### Verb

-zama
* to try

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

### Verb

-zama
* to try

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

#### Noun

zama class IX (plural zama class X)
* time, period

### Etymology 2

From *-zala (“to drown”) +‎ -ama

#### Verb

-zama (infinitive kuzama)
* to sink, submerge
* to dive

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -zama :
| Positive present | -nazama |
| Subjunctive | -zame |
| Negative | -zami |
| Imperative singular | zama |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuzama |
| Negative | kutozama |
Imperatives :
| Singular | zama |
| Plural | zameni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huzama |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lizama |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuzama |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tazama |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tazama |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sizame |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngezama |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singezama |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalizama |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalizama |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mezama |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshazama |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jazama |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kizama |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipozama |
| Consecutive | kazama / positive subject concord + -kazama |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kazame |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Thao
### Noun

zama
* (anatomy) tongue

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

### Verb

-zama
* (transitive) to try

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* -za

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

### Verb

-zama
* to try, to attempt, to strive

#### Related terms

* -za

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “zama”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “zama (6.3)”