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sanda en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Mandarin 散打 (sǎndǎ).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A Chinese martial art, self-defense system, and combat sport, similar to kick-boxing.
   • Some of the Sanda skills were taken from external kung fu and were used in real fight. 2011, Yan Liu, Kung Fu Engineering, →ISBN:
   • Sanda is a sport art, basically kick-boxing with throws. It's generally about scoring points, there are few knock-outs. 2009, Brian Preston, Me, Chi, and Bruce Lee, →ISBN:
   • Using methods of literature material, video observation and mathematical statistics, this paper analyzed sanda players' leg-applied technology. 2011, Su Jianjiao, “Research on Leg-Applied Technology in Man's Sanda Competition in the 11th National Games of PRC”, in Advances in Education and Management, →ISBN:
   • The major injury situation for the sanda males was attacking with a punch (66.7%) followed by attacking with a kick (33.3%). 1995, C. Blijd, E. Blijd, W. Pieter, “Wushu Injuries: A Pilot Study”, in Biology of Sport, volume 12, number 3, page 163:

Synonyms

Chinese boxing

Translations (4)

vi tán đả (Translations) · ko 산타 (Translations) · cmn 散打 (Translations) · ja 散打 (Translations)

sanda en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi सांडा (sāṇḍā).

Meanings

1. A desert reptile, Saara hardwickii, a type of spiny-tailed lizard.
   • A favourite prey species is the sanda or spiny-tailed lizard. 1997, Valmik Thapar, Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent, →ISBN:
   • The sanda is easily caught by a horse-hair noose placed over the opening of his burrow, which is always of uniform shape, and the exact size of what would be a mid-section of the reptile. The sanda is in great repute as a resotorative and aphrodisiac, and even high caste Hindus, such as Brahmans and Rajpats, boil them down into a strong soup. 1893, North Indian Notes and Queries - Volume 3, page 99:
   • Bhantus catch the sanda, or broad-tailed lizard, which dwells in rat-holes in the ground and lives always in fear of the cobra, in the following manner: — The Sansi sallies forth with a wooden mallet in one hand and a tuft of tough grass in the other. On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales. The sanda comes up tail foremost, and blocks the orifice with his pachydermatous appendage. The Sansi then delivers a crushing blow with the mallet on the earth an inch or two on the inside of the sanda, closes the passage, cuts off retreat, extracts the lizard and stuffs it into his shirt. 1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122:

Forms

sanda en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit षण्ढ (ṣaṇḍha, “eunuch, hermaphrodite”), which is often conflated with साण्ड (sāṇḍa, “bull”) in New Indo-Aryan languages due to sound change.

Meanings

1. (India) A man who is congenitally impotent.
   • Vasubandhu, for example, states that sexual deviants, along with eunuchs (sanda) and hermaphrodites, “possess, to an extreme degree, the defilements of the senses. 2012, John Powers, A Bull of a Man, →ISBN, page 82:
   • But when this normal posture is reverse and a male partner lies below down in supine position and female partner lies upon him in prone posture while doing intercourse, they will develop a "sanda-child". 1994, Suśruta, Suśruta-saṃhitā: Śārīrasthānam, page 37:
   • Vasubandhu at (II.1c) (and elsewhere in the Abhidharmakosa, see Note 13) draws a distinction between the sanda and the pandaka, which Yasomitra understands in the following way: pandakas are those individuals who have lost their indriya, that is, the masculinity or femininity principle, through some means (upakrama), whereas sanda is taken to apply to category 1, the congenitally impotent. 1992, Jos Ignacio Cabez, Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender, →ISBN, page 211:
   • Furthermore, according to Abhidharmakosa 6.23b, when one attains certain higher stages of the path, one will never again be reborn as a sanda, pandaka or hermaphrodite. 2000, Julia Leslie, Mary McGee, Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India:

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sanda en · NOUN · etymology 4

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic سَنْد (sand)bor. Swahili sandabor. English sanda Borrowed from Swahili sanda, borrowed from Arabic سَنْد (sand).

Meanings

1. A white calico shroud used in East Africa.
   • Yawo Muslims do not use wooden coffins, but bury their dead by wrapping them in a calico sheet called sanda. 2012, Ian D. Dicks, An African Worldview: The Muslim Amacinga Yawo of Southern Malaŵi, →ISBN:
   • Before the sanda is sewn up, men of the neighbourhood dig the grave. While they are busy, the sanda is closed. 1982, P. Van Pelt, Bantu Customs in Mainland Tanzania, page 230:
   • This washing is done by several elderly persons of the respective sex and these wrap it up with a sanda (white calico), either one or several according to the dignity, age and richness of the dead. But sanda instead of mikuswa (banana-leaves) was introduced lately because the people were not using clothes but mayombwe, i.e. stringy material (56a). The sanda comes next to the body whilst the mat will be spread inside the grave and another covers the outer of the mutufwi (57). 1963, Joseph Mawinza, The Human Soul: Life and Soul-concept in an East African Mentality, page 86:
   • The cloth, guo, which had been removed from the corpse and replaced by the sanda, is now spread over the grave so that the bystanders do not see the deposition of the body in its final resting place, the mwana-wa-ndani, explained in the next note. 1967, Alfons Loogman, Duquesne Studies: African series - Volume 2, page 129:

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sanda en · NOUN · etymology 5

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sandarac.
   alt of sandarac
   • Many of these trees yield rosin and gums, as I practically know, and they are worthy of being examined. As for example a sanda, which produces seche de sanda ; this is a valuable remedy for quickly healing cuts and other wounds. 1860, New York State Agricultural Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 464:
   • The giant mango trees were almost as old as the sanda and have produced fruit for a century. 2007, Charles Harvey, Ndoki, →ISBN, page 13:

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sanda en · NOUN · etymology 6

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay sanda.

Meanings

1. (Malaysia, uncountable) A traditional music style.
   • Sanda is a venerated, solemn genre; in this area of east Manggarai rima it occurs only on the occasion of a religious festival such as penti. 2001, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs:
   • The second part of recomposed Embroidering Golden Banner achieves the brightness and cheerfulness of music, and presents a cheerful passion through sanda playing methods such as left-hind octave fills, right-hand echo decoration, and encircled decoration. 2015, Dawei Zheng, Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology, →ISBN: