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zanza

zanza

English

Noun

zanza (plural zanzas)

  1. A kind of thumb piano from Africa.
    • 2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music (page 20)
      Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.

Italian

Noun

zanza m (plural zanzi)

  1. pilferer, filcher

Portuguese

Verb

zanza

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of zanzar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of zanzar