kuzaliana

How to say it

Meaning

Of animals, plants or people, to produce young and so increase in number, as fish breeding in a lake or locusts multiplying after rain.

Good to know

Intransitive, with the plural or a group as subject: samaki wanazaliana, fish are breeding; mazalia ni mahali pa kuzaliana, a breeding ground. From kuzaa, to give birth.

Examples

• Samaki huja hapa kuzaliana wakati wa mvua.The fish come here to breed in the rainy season.
• Panya huzaliana kwa kasi sana.Rats breed very fast.
• Nzige wanazaliana haraka katika hali ya unyevu.Locusts multiply quickly in damp conditions.

Forms

zaliana