tanda

Borrowed from Spanish tanda

tanda (plural tandas)

1. A turn of dancing in a milonga or tango.
   • 2007 August 25, Glenn Collins, “Tangoing Cheek to Cheek for 3 Minutes in the Park”, in New York Times‎:

     The disc jockey, Hernan Brizuela, 33, was playing sets, or tandas, of Argentine tangos: fast, medium, then slow.

tanda (plural tanda-tanda, first-person possessive tandaku, second-person possessive tandamu, third-person possessive tandanya)

1. sign, mark

tanda (plural tanda-tanda, informal first-person possessive tandaku, informal second-person possessive tandamu, third-person possessive tandanya)

1. sign, mark, signal, spot, symbol

From Arabic ضَمَّد‎ (ḍammad, “bandage”)

• Rhymes: -anda

tanda f (plural tandas)

1. time, instance

   Synonyms: vez, turno, pasada

2. duty, turn

   Synonym: turno

3. task, work

   Synonym: tarea

4. group
5. session
6. series

   Synonym: serie

7. shift

   trabajar en tandas

   I work shifts.

8. (colloquial, Latin America) beating, bashing
9. (bullfighting) series of steps taken by the bullfighter and bull before the estocada
10. match (instance in series of games)
11. performance, show, showing, ceremony, play (instance of a series of performances or a movie shows)

    Synonyms: función, sesión

• tanda de penaltis

tanda

1. to be spread out

tanda

1. to teethe

tanda

1. notice

From English thunder.

tanda

1. thunder

tanda

1. locative singular of tan