tanan

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See also: tañan, tänan, tan'an, and ta'na꞉n

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tanan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧nan
  • IPA(key): /taˈnan/

Pronoun

tanan

  1. everyone, everything, everybody

Determiner

tanan

  1. all

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tanan.

Adjective

tanan

  1. all

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tǎnan/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧nan

Adjective

tànan (Cyrillic spelling та̀нан, definite tànanī, comparative tananiji)

  1. very thin
  2. refined, delicate, subtle

Declension

Swedish

Noun

tanan

  1. definite singular of tana

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

tanan (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜈ᜔)

  1. act of escaping
    Synonyms: takas, pagtakas
  2. act of eloping (of two lovers)
  3. escapee; fugitive; deserter
    Synonyms: takas, puga
  4. refugee
    Synonym: likas
  5. lovers that eloped
Derived terms

Adjective

tanan (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜈ᜔)

  1. escaped; ran away (of an escapee, fugitive, or deserter)
    Synonyms: takas, nakatakas
  2. eloped together (of two lovers)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Cebuano tanan, from Proto-Philippine *tanan. Compare Hiligaynon tanan.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

tanán (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜈ᜔)

  1. everyone; everybody; all
    Synonym: lahat

Adjective

tanán (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜈ᜔)

  1. entire; whole
    Synonym: buo

Further reading

  • tanan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
    • page 358: Huirſe) Tanan (pp) alguno
    • page 360: Huyrſe) Tanan (pp) T. vno o muchos
    • page 577: Todo) Tanan (pc) vſaſe aunque es biſayo
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tanan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI