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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From tanı- (“to know”) + -iş.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tanış (comparative daha tanış, superlative ən tanış)
- familiar
- Onun adı mənə tanış gəlmir. ― His name doesn't sound familiar to me.
Noun
tanış (definite accusative tanışı, plural tanışlar)
- acquaintance (a person or persons with whom one is acquainted)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From the verb tanımak "to know, be familiar with"
(compare Old Turkic (tanï-, “know, be familiar”), from
Proto-Turkic *tạnu- (“to know”).
Cognate with
Azerbaijani tanış,
Kazakh таныс (tanys),
Kyrgyz тааныш (taanış),
Uzbek tanish (“known, acquainted”),
Bashkir таныш (tanış), etc.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tanış
- familiar, known to somebody
Synonyms
Noun
tanış (definite accusative tanışı, plural tanışlar)
- acquaintance, a person the somebody knows / has met
Gözü mekanda tanış birini arasa da, kimseyi tanımıyordu.- Although he/she was looking for a familiar person in the place, he/she didn’t know anyone.
Declension
Declension of tanış
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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tanış
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tanışlar
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definite accusative
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tanışı
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tanışları
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dative
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tanışa
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tanışlara
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locative
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tanışta
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tanışlarda
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ablative
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tanıştan
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tanışlardan
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genitive
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tanışın
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tanışların
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Verb
tanış
- second-person singular imperative of tanışmak