sanza
English
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[edit]sanza (plural sanzas)
- (music) Any type of mbira (thumb piano, a plucked lamellophone) of Southern African origin.
- 2015, Toyin Falola, Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:
- Sanza making is not at all specialized; anyone who wants to play the sanza makes their own. This xylophone is an instrument whose use crosses ethnic groups; one variation of it is known as the balafon.
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[edit]Bangi
[edit]Verb
[edit]sanza
- to disperse
French
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[edit]sanza f (plural sanzas)
Italian
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Variant of senza frequently found in the ancient Florentine dialect due to the word being usually unstressed. Compare danaio and Sanese from Senese.
Preposition
[edit]sanza
- (obsolete, poetic) without
- c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Il fico”, in Favole:
- Il fico stando sanza frutti nessuno lo riguardava; volendo, col fare essi frutti, essere laldato da li omini, fu da quelli piegato e rotto.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Arabic صَنْج (ṣanj, “harp, cymbal”).
Noun
[edit]sanza f (plural sanze)
- alternative form of sansa
Lingala
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]See Lingala sánzá.
Noun
[edit]sanza
Etymology 2
[edit]See the Lingala verb sánza.
Verb
[edit]-sanza (infinitive kosanza)
- to vomit
Sicilian
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[edit]sanza f
- olive pomace
- Â 'ccapata, quannu i 'ulivi su' tutti macinati, n'arrèstanu l'ogghiu e a sanza.
- In the end, when the olives are all ground, the oil and the olive pomace remain.
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