Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Argentine tree of the elm family, Momisia pallida, yielding a valuable wood used for making tool handles, casks, and barrels.
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- noun The
currency ofSamoa , divided into 100sene . - noun music A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.
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- noun the basic unit of money in Western Samoa
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the Turco – Tartar dialect a heath is called tala or tschol.
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In the Turco-Tartar dialect a heath is called tala or tschol.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Beginning with the Begada varna in adi thala, the recital progressed with "Siddhivinayakam" in Shanmukhapriya raga and rupaka tala, embellished with a few kalpana swaras.
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"Pahi Pahi Balaganapathe" in Hamsadhwani raga and rupaka tala, which followed the Sri raga varna, was preceded by a brief but mellifluous sketch of the raga and supplemented with kalpana swaras.
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Kharaharapriya was thereafter taken up for a condensed elaboration that made a quick detour of the scale and was succeeded by "Senthil Andavan" in rupaka tala, augmented with a beautifully contoured neraval and fluent kalpana swaras.
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Ito ay dumating sa mundo-set sa "tala" mode at wired na may kakayahan upang pag-aralan at cross-reference ang data na natatanggap nito, pagguhit ng pagpapasiya tungkol sa mundo.
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But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a "tala," or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821
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Until I realized that in Sepedi the word for both green and blue is tala.
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In order to distinguish which you mean you should say tala like the sky or tala like the grass.
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As Chinese and Arabic travelers observed, before the introduction of paper, the Indians used bhurja (Baetula bhojpattr), or cotton clothing, or parchments, or tada-tala (Borassus flabelliformis) to write.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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