sanda
/sˈændə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Chinese martial art, self-defense system, and combat sport, similar to kick-boxing.
Uncountable
noun
A desert reptile, Saara hardwickii, a type of spiny-tailed lizard.
noun
A white calico shroud used in East Africa.
noun
Alternative form of sandarac.
Example Sentences
- "The major injury situation for the sanda males was attacking with a punch (66.7%) followed by attacking with a kick (33.3%)."
- "Sanda is a sport art, basically kick-boxing with throws. It's generally about scoring points, there are few knock-outs."
- "Using methods of literature material, video observation and mathematical statistics, this paper analyzed sanda players' leg-applied technology."
- "Some of the Sanda skills were taken from external kung fu and were used in real fight."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Mandarin 散打 (sǎndǎ).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, षण्ढ