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Understanding Diseases in Kiswahili

This document provides a list of diseases [magonjwa] in Swahili with their English translations. It includes 30 common diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, and AIDS. It also lists extra medical vocabulary words related to diseases, symptoms, treatment and medical professionals. Finally, it gives examples of question formation in Swahili about diseases, such as "What disease are you suffering from?" and "What type of disease don't you like?". The overall goal is for students to learn to identify diseases and discuss health issues in Swahili.

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Understanding Diseases in Kiswahili

This document provides a list of diseases [magonjwa] in Swahili with their English translations. It includes 30 common diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, and AIDS. It also lists extra medical vocabulary words related to diseases, symptoms, treatment and medical professionals. Finally, it gives examples of question formation in Swahili about diseases, such as "What disease are you suffering from?" and "What type of disease don't you like?". The overall goal is for students to learn to identify diseases and discuss health issues in Swahili.

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Diseases [magonjwa]

Learning objective: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify different
diseases and also construct meaningful sentences.
A). Diseases

1) Afkani [heart disease]


2) Donda [ulcers]
3) homa [fever]
4) homa ya manjano [yellow fever]
5) homa ya matumbo [typhoid]
6) kansa / saratani [cancer]
7) kaswende / sekeneke [syphilis]
8) kichaa / wazimu [insanity]
9) kichocho [bilharzia]
10) kidonda [wound (noun)]
11) kifafa [epilepsy]
12) kifuakikuu [tuberculosis]
13) kikohozi [cough]
14) kipindupindu [cholera]
15) tumbo la kuhara [dysentery]
16) kisonono [gonorrhea]
17) kisukari [diabetes]
18) kuendesha; kuhara [diarrhea]
19) kutapika [vomiting]
20) mafua [cold]
21) malale [sleeping sickness]
22) malaria [malaria]
23) mzio [allergies]
24) surua / ukambi [measles]
25) utapio mlo [kwashiorkor]
26) UKIMWI [AIDS] (upungufu wa kinga mwilini)
27) tekekuwanga [chicken pox]
28) ukoma [leprosy]
29) maradhi [diseases]
30) najisi [rape]
31) zimia; zirai [fainting]
32) kiungulia [heartburn]
33) kifaduro [whooping cough]
34) kiharusi [polio]

B). Extra Vocabulary

1) maumivu [pain; hurt]


2) kufa / kufariki [to die]
3) sindano [needle; syringe]
4) tembe / dawa / vidonge [pill]
5) kupima [to measure / to examine]
6) kukinga / kuzuia [to prevent]
7) daktari / mganga [doctor]
8) daktari wa meno / tabibumeno/ mhazigimeno [dentist]
9) daktari wa macho [optician]
10) pata kitanda [be admitted]
11) tibiwa [be treated]’[
12) pata nafuu /pona [get better]
13) tibu [treat]

Zingatia [note]

1) Kwenda kwa daktari. [Go to the doctor.]


2) Kwenda hospitali. [Go to the hospital.]
3) Kunywa dawa. [Drink/Take medicine.]
4) Kuona daktari. [See the doctor.]
5) kupata dawa[to get medicine]
6) kuumwa na tumbo/ kichwa/mguu[to be hurt in the stomach/ head/leg]
7) furaha [happy]
8) huzuni [sad]
9) Nina furaha/huzuni [I am happy/sad.]
10) Choka [tired]
11) Nimechoka [I am tired.]
12) kulia [to cry]tg
13) pole sana [very sorry]
14) Mimi ni mgonjwa. [I am sick.]

Question Formation

Mifano:

1. Unaumwa na ugonjwa gani? [What disease are you suffering from?]

a). Ninaumwa na malaria. [I am suffering from malaria.]

b). Nina jkb malaria. [I have malaria.]

2. Una ugonjwa gani? [What disease do you have?]

a). Ninaumwa na mafua. [I am suffering from a cold.]

b). Nina mafua. [I have a cold.]

3. Hupendi ugonjwa gani? [What disease don’t you like?]

(Mimi) Sipendi mafua. [I don’t like the cold.]

4. Hupendi ugonjwa wa aina gani? [What type/ kind of disease don’t you like?]
(Mimi) Sipendi homa. [I don’t like fever.

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