English

Noun

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.

Indonesian

Noun

tanda

1. sign

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ضَمَّد ‎(ḍammad, “bandage”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anda

Noun

tanda f ‎(plural tandas)

1. time, instance
2. duty, turn
3. task, work
4. group
5. session
6. series
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

Derived terms

• tanda de penaltis

Swahili

Verb

tanda

1. to be spread out

Swedish

Verb

tanda

1. to teethe

Tagalog

Verb

tanda

1. notice

Turkish

Noun

tanda

1. locative singular of tan