oshana
noun
oshana is a noun meaning “A kind of seasonally inundated depression, particularly in Namibia's Oshana Region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-S-H-A-N-A, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oshana is oshanas.
What does oshana mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of seasonally inundated depression, particularly in Namibia's Oshana Region.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oshana
- oshanas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oshana?
Oshana appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does oshana come from?
From Kwanyama oshana.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).