sanza

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sanza (plural sanzas)

1. (music) Any type of mbira (thumb piano, a plucked lamellophone) of Southern African origin.
   • 2015, Toyin Falola; Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:

     Sanza making is not at all specialized; anyone who wants to play the sanza makes their own. This xylophone is an instrument whose use crosses ethnic groups; one variation of it is known as the balafon.

• Appendix:Glossary of idiophones

• Naasz, Sazan, azans, sazan

sanza f (plural sanzas)

1. sanza

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -antsa
• Hyphenation: sàn‧za

Variant of senza frequently found in the ancient Florentine dialect. The en- → an- shift was partly an influence of French sans.

sanza

1. (obsolete, poetic) without
   • c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Il fico”, in Favole:

     Il fico stando sanza frutti nessuno lo riguardava; volendo, col fare essi frutti, essere laldato da li omini, fu da quelli piegato e rotto.

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From Arabic صَنْج‎ (ṣanj, “harpsichord”).

sanza f (plural sanze)

1. Alternative form of sansa