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sena

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/ ˈseɪnɑː /

noun

  1. (in India) the army: used in the names of certain paramilitary political organizations

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of sena

Hindi


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He has been to the sena with you twice, and he knows how.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

In Favre’s Malay-French Dictionary daun sena-maki is translated feuilles de séné, no notice being taken of the last word; but Shakespear’s Hindustani Dictionary has sena makk-i, “senna of Mecca.”

From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Sir William Edward Maxwell

Before day broke they were astir; and the sun had not yet risen when they repacked their sledges and harnessed the dogs, and drove down over the ice toward the sena.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

It was a Saturday evening when Bobby finally received Abel's consent for him to go to the sena seal hunting.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

So they pushed the dogs back to the sena at the fastest gait to which they could urge them.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

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