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▪ I. ‖ pinda1, ˈpindar, pinder
Also pindal.
[ad. Pg. pinda, in Du. piendel, ad. Congo mpinda, Mpongwe mbenda: carried by Negroes to America.]
Name in the West Indies and Southern U.S. for the ground-nut or pea-nut (Arachis hypogæa).
1696J. Ovington Voy. to Suratt 77 Sometimes they feast with a little Fish, and that with a few Pindars is esteemed a splendid banquet. These Pindars are sown under ground, and grow there without sprouting above the surface. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. p. lxxiii, I was assured that the Negroes feed on Pindals or Indian Earth-nuts, a sort of pea or bean producing its pods under ground. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 295 Pindars or Ground Nuts. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xx. 115 The pistachio or pinda nuts they also convert into butter. 1814tr. Proyart's Loango in Pinkerton Voy. XVI. 551 There is nothing which the Negroes cultivate with more care than the Pinda. 1875R. F. Burton Gorilla L. (1876) I. 158 The ground-nut or pea-nut,..the Pindar of the United States,..is eaten roasted. 1926J. K. Strecker in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 56 In the valleys of the Red River of Louisiana and the Sabine River of Louisiana and Texas, are to be found negroes who use many African words, the inheritance of their ancestors. A white man is a ‘buckra’... A ground-nut (peanut) is a ‘pinda’. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xviii. 214 The field of pindars was not doing so well. 1977McDavid & O'Cain in S. Greenbaum Acceptability in Lang. viii. 115 The majority of the uncultured judge..groundnut and pindar as old.
attrib.1879Louisville (U.S.) Home & Farm 15 Apr., My hogs..had..the run of potato, pinder and pea fields.
▪ II. ‖ pinda2 India.|ˈpiːndə|
Also 8 peenda, 9 pindee.
[Skr. piṇḍa lump.]
(See quots.)
1785C. Wilkins Bhăgvăt-Gēētā 139 The Hindoos are enjoined by the Vēds to offer a cake, which is called Pĕĕndă, to the ghosts of their ancestors, as far back as the third generation. 1796W. Jones tr. Inst. Hindu Law iii. 67 Sages have distinguished the monthly sráddha by the title of anwáhárya, or after eaten, that is, eaten after the pinda or ball of rice. 1811W. Ward Acct. Writings, Relig. & Manners Hindoos II. v. 550 The place where the fire was kindled is plentifully washed with water, after which the son of the deceased performs pindee, viz. he makes two balls of boiled rice, and, repeating a mǔntrǔ, offers them to, or in the name of his father and mother, and lays them on the spot where they were burnt. 1877M. Monier-Williams Hinduism v. 68 The offering of the Piṇḍa, or ball or rice, &c., to deceased fathers at a S′rāddha is of great importance in regard to the Hindū law of inheritance. 1901Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 9/2 The ‘pindas’ offered to their deceased ancestors were placed on plantain or ‘jack fruit’ leaves. 1909Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 27/1 How closely this [Lithuanian cake for the dead] corresponds to the Indian piṇḍa, which is so characteristic of the Indian worship of the dead. 1964R. Antoine in De Smet & Neuner Religious Hinduism xv. 166 Piṇḍas (rice balls) are then smeared with ghee, collyrium and oil, and dressed with a tuft of wool, so as to represent the ancestors. 1968B. Walker Hindu World II. 149 On the first day after death a round ball of rice or flour moistened with milk and water and known as the piṇḍa is offered to the preta. |