tana

See also: Tana, tána, taña, täna, Táňa, tą́na, and tänä

English

Noun

tana (plural tanas)

  1. The banxring or tree shrew.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tana in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Buginese

Etymology

Compare Malay tanah.

Noun

tana (lontara ᨈᨊ)

  1. land
  2. soil
  3. country

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tana

  1. young bull

Declension

Hausa

Noun

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)

Irish

Adjective

tana

  1. Alternative form of tanaí (“thin; shallow”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tana thana dtana
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Italian

Noun

tana f (plural tane)

  1. lair, den
  2. burrow (tunnel or hole dug by a small creature, such as a rabbit, etc.)
  3. (figuratively) hideout
    Synonyms: covo, nascondiglio

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

tana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たな

Ratahan

Noun

tana

  1. earth; soil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Adjective

tana (comparative taine)

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

Derived terms

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “1 tana” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Adjective

tana

  1. Feminine singular of adjective tano.
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