savanna

See also: Savanna and savaṇṇa

English

A lion in the savanna.

Alternative forms

• savannah

Etymology

From Spanish sabana, from Taíno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈvænə/
• Rhymes: -ænə

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

savanna (countable and uncountable, plural savannas)

1. A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

Derived terms

• savanna flower (Echites spp.)
• savanna glider (Petaurus ariel)
• savanna hawk
• savanna sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
• savanna wattle (Citharexylum spp.)
• savannization

Translations

tropical grassland with scattered trees

• Afrikaans: savanne
• Arabic: سَبْسَب m (sabsab), سَهْل العُشْبِي f (sahl ʕušbiy), سَافَانَا f (safānā)
• Armenian: սավաննա (hy) (savanna)
• Belarusian: сава́нна f (savánna)
• Bulgarian: савана (bg) f (savana)
• Catalan: sabana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稀樹草原 / 稀树草原 (xīshù cǎoyuán), 薩瓦納 / 萨瓦纳 (sàwǎnà)

• Coptic: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: savana (cs) f
• Danish: savanne (da) c
• Dutch: savanne (nl) f
• Esperanto: savano
• Finnish: savanni (fi)
• French: savane (fr) f
• Fula: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: sabana (gl)
• Georgian: სავანა (savana)
• German: Savanne (de) f
• Greek: σαβάνα (el) f (savána)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: סוואנה
• Hindi: सवाना (savānā)
• Hungarian: szavanna (hu)
• Indonesian: padang rumput (id)
• Italian: savana (it) f
• Japanese: サバンナ (ja) (sabanna), サバナ (sabana)
• Korean: 사바나 (ko) (sabana)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ساڤانا (savana)

• Mapudungun: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: savanne (no) m
• Persian: ساوانا (fa) (sâvânâ), گرم‌دشت (garm-dašt)
• Portuguese: savana (pt), (Angola) anhara (pt) f, (Angola) chana (pt) f
• Russian: сава́нна (ru) f (savánna)
• Serbo-Croatian: savàna (sh) f
• Slovene: savana (sl) f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sabana (es) f
• Swahili: savana
• Swedish: savann (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabana
• Ukrainian: сава́нна f (savánna)
• Yoruba: ọ̀dàn

Further reading

• savanna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Crimean Tatar

Noun

savanna

1. savanna

Declension

Declension of savanna

nominative	savanna
genitive	savannanıñ
dative	savannağa
accusative	savannanı
locative	savannada
ablative	savannadan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Latvian

Noun

savanna f (4th declension)

1. savanna

Declension

Declension of savanna (4th declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	savanna	savannas
genitive	savannas	savannu
dative	savannai	savannām
accusative	savannu	savannas
instrumental	savannu	savannām
locative	savannā	savannās
vocative	savanna	savannas