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surra

surra noun: a disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy.

Noun

surra (uncountable)

  1. A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy.
    • Whether the disease caused was Surra or Ngana time would not permit me to judge[…]1901 May 24, “Veterinary Work at Uganda”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 6, page 178

surra meaning in Tamil

surra in Tamil

உள்ஒட்டுண்ணிக் குருதி நோய், குதிரை வலிப்பு நோய், விலங்குகளில் ஒட்டுண்ணி நோய்

Origin of surra

From Marathi [script needed] (sūra, “air breathed through the nostrils”), imitative of heavy breathing through the nostrils.

Questions about surra

What does surra mean?
Surra means a disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy.
What is surra in Tamil?
Surra in Tamil is உள்ஒட்டுண்ணிக் குருதி நோய், குதிரை வலிப்பு நோய், விலங்குகளில் ஒட்டுண்ணி நோய். See Surra meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is surra?
Surra is a noun.

Words near surra in the dictionary

  1. surquedous
  2. surquedries
  3. surquedry
  4. surquedy
  5. surquidry
  6. surra
  7. Surratt
  8. Surratts
  9. surreach
  10. surreached
  11. surreaches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surra (page history and authors); surra (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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