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.