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n. A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.
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The Sanna is a tributary of the Vistula in Poland. Its source is in the village of Wierzchowiska II in Lublin Voivodeship, Galicia. It flows westward through a rural area. Then, it turns northward for a few kilometers until flowing into the Vistula near the city of Annopol. It is about 50 km long.
Sanna or Sanne is a female name. It is a Scandinavian short form of Susanna that in turn is a Greek version of a Hebrew name meaning " lily".
Sänna is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 55.
Poet and writer Artur Adson (1889–1977) grew up in Sänna village. Writer Juhan Jaik was born in Sänna.
Sannas are spongy steamed savoury rice cakes. They are popular in Goa and Mangalore in Karnataka, India, especially among the Goans, both Hindus and Catholics, the Konkani diaspora of Karnataka and of a small community settled in Kerala, and the East Indians and the Kupari Catholic community based in and around Mumbai.
Sannas were often called Hitt or Hittli in old Konkani by Hindus, and are now commonly known as Idli. They are made on various religious occasions such as Ganesh Chaturthi, Saunsar padvo/ Yugadi and Makar Sankranti, whereas Catholics prepare them during church feasts. Sometimes a sweet version is made with jaggery, known as godachi sanna . Hindus normally use urad dal, coconut water and coconut milk for fermentation. Catholic sannas consist of two types: toddy-fermented sannas and those made using the sap of the coconut palm.
Mangalorean Catholic Cuisine is incomplete without sannas. They are a much-loved bread served with pork bafat, a spicy pork dish prepared with a medley of powdered spices. Sannas are also served alongside chicken or mutton curries, or can be eaten for breakfast with coconut chutney or sambhar, or with sweet coconut milk sweetened with jaggery and flavoured with cardamom.
In modern times toddy-fermented sannas are rarely made. Instead, the batter can be leavened with yeast.
Sanna is a river in Austria formed near Tobadill by the confluence of the rivers Rosanna (35 km, from Arlberg and Stanzertal valley) and Trisanna (35 km, from Silvretta and Paznaun).
The tributary to the Inn River is only long and considered one of the shortest rivers in Europe, with the places Pians, Grins and Landeck situated at its waterfront.
The whitewater river is used for kayaking and was the site of the 1996 world championships.
Usage examples of "sanna".
Vienna looked to me then, when I was Sanna, the barefoot daughter of the village carpenter.
In the mean time, she was accustomed as a child to go out as Barbra, and to come in again as Sanna, and this gave her early an idea of the two natures which existed in her, as they exist in every person.
Cheney stopped in Yemen and met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the Sanna airport.
Then, in the forests of Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario, Steve Sanna of Pow Wow Wilderness Adventures took me by canoe into the wilds for three days and pointed out the flora, fauna, shelters and edibles that would enable Jack and Ate to survive a winter.
Sae let Mr R---and his son bide where they are yonder, for ye sanna stir a foot to bring them out the day.
She had prayed to Lahanna, as all childless women do, and she had made a pilgrimage to Cathallo where Sannas, the sorceress, had given her herbs to eat and made her lie one full night wrapped in the bloody pelt of a newly killed wolf.
Hengall had not wanted him to go, but Gilan insisted Sannas wanted to see Camaban for herself.
He understood now that Kital and Sannas were expecting Lengar to come to Cathallo and claim a bride, but Lengar was gone and so he must take his place.
The chiefs held each other close for a heartbeat, then Kital pulled away and, leading Hengall by the hand, took him to where Sannas waited beside one of the great stones that formed the death house.
Saban was watching the sorceress, and it was evident that Sannas was unhappy with the news Hengall brought, for she turned away from him with a dismissive gesture.
Hengall looked at Kital, who shrugged, but then Sannas turned back and snarled something before walking to a hut that stood close to the nearest stone circle.
There were those who said she could never die, that the gods had given Sannas life without death, and to the awed Saban that seemed true, for he had never seen a face so wizened, so wrinkled and so savage.
Saban looked where Sannas pointed and his breath checked in his throat, for he was staring at a slender girl with long black hair and an anxious, pretty face.
Yet there would be advantages in a marriage between Cathallo and Ratharryn, so Sannas decided she would swallow the insult.
And Sannas had laughed at that, opening her mouth wide to show her single rotting tooth.