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sansa

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See also: Sansa, šansa, and șansă

English

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Noun

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sansa (plural sansas)

  1. (music) The mbira or thumb piano.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsan.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ansa
  • Hyphenation: sàn‧sa

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin sampsa.

Noun

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sansa f (plural sanse)

  1. olive pomace
    Da bambini ci imbrattavano anima e corpo giocando coi cumuli di sansa.
    When we were children we smirched ourselves completely while playing with the heaps of olive pomace.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic صَنْج (ṣanj, harp, cymbal).

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Noun

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sansa f (plural sanse)

  1. (music) mbira; lamellophone

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Japanese

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Romanization

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sansa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さんさ

Quechua

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Adjective

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sansa

  1. weak

Noun

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sansa

  1. red hot burning coal
  2. glow, blaze, reflection

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Swedish

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Etymology

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sans +‎ -a

Verb

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sansa (present sansar, preterite sansade, supine sansat, imperative sansa)

  1. (reflexive) to calm down; to exit from an agitated state

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sansa (weak)
active passive
infinitive sansa
supine sansat
imperative sansa
imper. plural1 sansen
present past present past
indicative sansar sansade
ind. plural1 sansa sansade
subjunctive2 sanse sansade
present participle sansande
past participle sansad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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