Specifically, the word is a feminine noun in its singular form. The same may be said for the Italian nâ¦oun nona (ninth), which also may function as a feminine singular adjective according to context. The pronunciation will be NON-na in terms of the person and NO-na in terms of the musical/numerical term.
The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area, siringet, which means the place where the land runs on forever. The first Briton to enter the Serengeti, Stewart Edward White, recorded his explorations in the northern Serengeti in 1913.
Many survive in the famous game parks of Kenya and Tanzania, and also those of Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia. The savannas are actually a mosaic of communities controlled (and today managed) by fire and grazing pressures. The famous Serengeti Plains in Tanzania are a grass savanna developed on droughty but nutrient-rich volcanic sands.