sena

British  

/ ˈseɪnɑː /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sena

Hindi

Example Sentences

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 Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

I was never hunting at the sena but twice, though, and I've never forgotten my first experience.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon

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 Wallace, Dillon

They were away to the sena, and the Great Adventure, at last.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon

After the exhibition of an emetic, and an opening medicine of rhubarb, sena, and sal tartari, he was directed to take half a dram of squill pill, pharm.

From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William