tana

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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tana (plural tanas)

  1. Alternative form of thana

Etymology 2

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Noun

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tana (plural tanas)

  1. The banxring or tree shrew.

Anagrams

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Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ta‧na
  • IPA(key): /taˈnaʔ/ [taˈn̪aʔ]

Noun

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tanâ

  1. taste
    Synonyms: namit, lasa

Derived terms

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Buginese

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Etymology

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Compare Malay tanah.

Noun

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tana (Lontara spelling ᨈᨊ)

  1. land
  2. soil
  3. country

Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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tana (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. young bull

Declension

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Estonian

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Northern Bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) winter hibernating in Modum, Norway.

Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑnɑ/, [ˈtɑnɑ]
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  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Noun

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tana (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. a roost (the place where a bat sleeps during its winter hibernation period.)
    Synonyms: talvituspaik, talvine varjepaik

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Usage notes

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In Estonia and Latvia, it is often an underground place - e.g. a cave, cellar, fortress passage, well - but sometimes it is a place above ground, such as a gap in the wall of a building, a crack in a wall, a drill hole, etc.

Declension

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References

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Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /táː.náː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [táː.náː]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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tānā f (possessed form tānar̃)

  1. earthworm
  2. (dialectal, chiefly anatomy) membrane covering a body part
  3. (dialectal) thin, sometimes crispy skin (e.g., on roasted chicken)

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Colloquial borrowing from the English to tan.

Verb

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tana

  1. (colloquial) to sunbathe with the intention of obtaining a tan skin color
    Synonyms: sleikja sólina, liggja í sólbaði
  2. (colloquial) to obtain a tan skin color
    Synonym: fá á sig lit

Conjugation

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Irish

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Adjective

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tana

  1. Alternative form of tanaí (thin; shallow)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of tana
radical lenition eclipsis
tana thana dtana

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Latin *subtana, compare sottana f (lower, adj).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈta.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: tà‧na

Noun

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tana f (plural tane)

  1. lair, den
  2. burrow (tunnel or hole dug by a small creature, such as a rabbit, etc.)
  3. (figurative) hideout
    Synonyms: covo, nascondiglio
  4. (vulgar, slang) the vagina

References

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  1. ^ tana in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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tana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たな

Kinaray-a

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtana/, [ˈta.na]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Pronoun

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tana

  1. 3rd-person singular absolutive personal pronoun: he; she

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Laboya

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tana

  1. land
  2. earth
  3. soil

Derived terms

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References

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  • Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “tana”, in Lamboya word list[1], Leiden: LexiRumah

Makasar

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tana (Lontara spelling ᨈᨊ)

  1. rice paddy

Manchu

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Romanization

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tana

  1. Romanization of ᡨᠠᠨᠠ

Norn

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Etymology

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From Old Norse þenja, from Proto-Germanic *þanjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (stretch).

Verb

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tana

  1. to stretch, extend

Ratagnon

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Pronoun

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tana

  1. he; she

Ratahan

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Noun

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tana

  1. earth; soil

Sambali

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Adverb

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taná

  1. only

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish tanae, from Proto-Celtic *tanawyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us.

Adjective

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tana (comparative taine)

  1. thin (not thick; not dense)
  2. shallow (water)
  3. thin, runny (liquid)
  4. flimsy (material)

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References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tana”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

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Adjective

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tana

  1. feminine singular of tano

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
en tana (sense 2)

Etymology

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Related to tänja (stretch). Compare also tanig (scrawny, skinny).

Noun

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tana c

  1. (colloquial) a scrawny girl or woman
  2. a stretching board, a fur stretcher, a pelt stretcher, a pelt board
    Synonym: skinntana

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Verb

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tana (present tanar, preterite tanade, supine tanat, imperative tana)

  1. to place (a pelt) on a stretching board

Conjugation

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tana

  1. (transitive) to present

Conjugation

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Conjugation of tana
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totana fotana mitana
2nd notana nitana
3rd Masculine otana itana, yotana
Feminine motana
Neuter itana
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tokelauan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *te-qa-na.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈta.na]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Determiner

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tana

  1. (alienable, definite) his, her

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References

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  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 371