tana

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

tana (plural tanas)

  1. Alternative form of thana

Etymology 2

Noun

tana (plural tanas)

  1. The banxring or tree shrew.

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧na
  • IPA(key): /taˈnaʔ/,

Noun

tanâ

  1. taste
    Synonyms: namit, lasa

Derived terms

Buginese

Etymology

Compare Malay tanah.

Noun

tana (Lontara spelling ᨈᨊ)

  1. land
  2. soil
  3. country

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tana (accusative , plural )

  1. young bull

Declension

Declension of tana
nominative tana
genitive tananıñ
dative tanağa
accusative tananı
locative tanada
ablative tanadan

Estonian

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

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Noun

tana (genitive , partitive )

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

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Usage notes

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /táː.náː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):
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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)

Icelandic

Etymology

Colloquial borrowing from the English to tan.

Verb

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

tana — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að tana
supine
(sagnbót) 		tanað
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		tanandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég tana við tönum present
(nútíð) 		ég tani við tönum
þú tanar þið tanið þú tanir þið tanið
hann, hún, það tanar þeir, þær, þau tana hann, hún, það tani þeir, þær, þau tani
past
(þátíð) 		ég tanaði við tönuðum past
(þátíð) 		ég tanaði við tönuðum
þú tanaðir þið tönuðuð þú tanaðir þið tönuðuð
hann, hún, það tanaði þeir, þær, þau tönuðu hann, hún, það tanaði þeir, þær, þau tönuðu
imperative
(boðháttur) 		tana (þú) tanið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
tanaðu taniði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
tanast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að tanast
supine
(sagnbót) 		tanast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		tanandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég tanast við tönumst present
(nútíð) 		ég tanist við tönumst
þú tanast þið tanist þú tanist þið tanist
hann, hún, það tanast þeir, þær, þau tanast hann, hún, það tanist þeir, þær, þau tanist
past
(þátíð) 		ég tanaðist við tönuðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég tanaðist við tönuðumst
þú tanaðist þið tönuðust þú tanaðist þið tönuðust
hann, hún, það tanaðist þeir, þær, þau tönuðust hann, hún, það tanaðist þeir, þær, þau tönuðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		tanast (þú) tanist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
tanastu tanisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
tanaður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
strong declension
(sterk beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		tanaður tönuð tanað tanaðir tanaðar tönuð
accusative
(þolfall) 		tanaðan tanaða tanað tanaða tanaðar tönuð
dative
(þágufall) 		tönuðum tanaðri tönuðu tönuðum tönuðum tönuðum
genitive
(eignarfall) 		tanaðs tanaðrar tanaðs tanaðra tanaðra tanaðra
weak declension
(veik beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		tanaði tanaða tanaða tönuðu tönuðu tönuðu
accusative
(þolfall) 		tanaða tönuðu tanaða tönuðu tönuðu tönuðu
dative
(þágufall) 		tanaða tönuðu tanaða tönuðu tönuðu tönuðu
genitive
(eignarfall) 		tanaða tönuðu tanaða tönuðu tönuðu tönuðu

Related terms

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

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin *subtana, compare sottana f (“lower”, adj).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

tana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たな

Kinaray-a

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtana/,
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Pronoun

tana

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

See also

Kinaray-a personal pronouns
Person Number Absolute (ang/si) Ergative (kang/ni) Oblique (kang/kay)
Type Emphatic Non-emphatic Preposed Postposed
First singular ako takën nakën, ko akën kanakën
plural inclusive kita tatën* natën, ta atën kanatën
plural exclusive kami tamën namën amën kanamën
Second singular ikaw, kaw timo nimo, mo amo kanamo
plural kamo tinyo ninyo, niyo inyo kaninyo
Third singular tana nana, na ana kanana
plural sanda tanda nanda anda kananda


Laboya

Pronunciation

Noun

tana

  1. land
  2. earth
  3. soil

Derived terms

References

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

Makasar

Pronunciation

Noun

tana (Lontara spelling ᨈᨊ)

  1. rice paddy

Manchu

Romanization

tana

  1. Romanization of ᡨᠠᠨᠠ

Norn

Etymology

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

Verb

tana

  1. to stretch, extend

Ratagnon

Pronoun

tana

  1. he; she

Ratahan

Noun

tana

  1. earth; soil

Sambali

Adverb

taná

  1. only

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

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tana”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Adjective

tana

  1. feminine singular of tano

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

tana

  1. (transitive) to present

Conjugation

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

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

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *te-qa-na.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Determiner

tana

  1. (alienable, definite) his, her

See also

Tokelauan possessive determiners
Definite inalienable (O-type)
singular reference plural reference
sg du pl sg du pl
long short long short
1st person (excl.) toku,
tota1 		to māua to mā to mātou oku,
ota1 		o māua o mā o mātou
1st person (incl.) ― to tāua to tā to tātou ― o tāua o tā o tātou
2nd person tō toulua toutou ō oulua outou
3rd person tona to lāua to lā to lātou ona o lāua o lā o lātou
Definite alienable (A-type)
singular reference plural reference
sg du pl sg du pl
long short long short
1st person (excl.) taku,
tata1 		ta māua ta mā ta mātou aku,
ata1 		a māua a mā a mātou
1st person (incl.) ― ta tāua ta tā ta tātou ― a tāua a tā a tātou
2nd person tau taulua tautou au aulua autou
3rd person tana ta lāua ta lā ta lātou ana a lāua a lā a lātou
Indefinite inalienable (O-type)
singular reference plural reference
sg du pl sg du pl
long short long short
1st person (excl.) hoku,
hota1 		ho māua ho mā ho mātou ni oku,
ni ota1 		ni o māua ni o mā ni o mātou
1st person (incl.) ― ho tāua ho tā ho tātou ― ni o tāua ni o tā ni o tātou
2nd person hō houlua houtou ni ō ni oulua ni outou
3rd person hona ho lāua ho lā ho lātou ni ona ni o lāua ni o lā ni o lātou
Indefinite alienable (A-type)
singular reference plural reference
sg du pl sg du pl
long short long short
1st person (excl.) haku,
hata1 		ha māua ha mā ha mātou ni aku,
ni ata1 		ni a māua ni a mā ni a mātou
1st person (incl.) ― ha tāua ha tā ha tātou ― ni a tāua ni a tā ni a tātou
2nd person hau haulua hautou ni au ni aulua ni autou
3rd person hana ha lāua ha lā ha lātou ni ana ni a lāua ni a lā ni a lātou
1) Sympathetic

References

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