tanda

Meaning

1. (feminine) time, instance
2. (feminine) duty, turn
3. (feminine) shift
4. (feminine) task, work
5. (feminine) group, series, batch
6. (feminine) performance, show, session (instance of a series of performances or a movie shows)
7. (feminine) match (instance in series of games)
8. (Latin-America, colloquial, feminine) beating, bashing
9. (feminine) series of steps taken by the bullfighter and bull before the estocada

Concepts

turn

coating

layer

gang

batch

relay

series

time

⌚

game

Synonyms

vez

⌚

golpiza

muñequera

Hyphenated as

tan‧da

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtanda/

Etymology

Cognate with Catalan: tanda

Cognate with Galician: tanda

Borrowed from Latin: tandem

In summary

Cognate to Catalan tanda and Galician tanda, of unknown origin. Perhaps from a Latin tanta (literally “that much”) or nominalization of Latin tandem (“(of time) at length, at last”), with contamination from either. Normally suggested to be from an instance noun Arabic ضَمْدَة (ḍamda, “bandage”) from the root ض م د (ḍ m d) being metaphorically used, however, apart from this semantic development being dubious, not only the consonants do not match but this Arabic noun is of utmost rarity.