MANDA • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Manda

... explained, when 'twas over, "we never had no chance afore. 'Manda an' me was down narth when the last parson come this way. An' ...

— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan

... spiritual belief in personal divinity; and by this reform of cult both raised its social status and gave it political cohesion. The East began to know and fear the combination under the name Manda, and from Shalmaneser II onwards the Assyrian kings had to devote ever more attention to the Manda country, raiding it, sacking it, exacting tribute from it, but all the while betraying their growing consciousness that a grave peril lurked behind Zagros, the peril of the Medes. [Footnote: I venture to adhere throughout ...

— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth