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4-letter words (2 found)

ANTA,TANA,

3-letter words (4 found)

ANA,ANT,NAT,TAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AN,AT,NA,TA,

You can make 11 words from tana according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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tana atna tnaa ntaa anta nata taan atan taan atan aatn aatn tnaa ntaa tana atna nata anta anat naat aant aant naat anat

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Definitions and meaning of tana

tana

Etymology 1

Noun

tana (plural tanas)

  1. Alternative form of thana

Etymology 2

Noun

tana (plural tanas)

  1. The banxring or tree shrew.

Anagrams

  • AANT, ANTA, Anat, Nata, anat., anta, naat, taan

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

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

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 [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. young bull

Declension

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

  • tana in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

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

Related terms

  • tanaður (“tanned”)

Irish

Adjective

tana

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

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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

Anagrams

  • anta, nata

Japanese

Romanization

tana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たな

Kinaray-a

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

tana

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

See also


Laboya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtaːna]

Noun

tana

  1. land
  2. earth
  3. soil

Derived terms

  • panutana
  • tana kaɗitto

References

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

Makasar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtana]

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

  • tanalachd

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tana”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 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

  • IPA(key): [ˈta.na]

Verb

tana

  1. (transitive) to present

Conjugation

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): [ˈta.na]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧na

Determiner

tana

  1. (alienable, definite) his, her

See also

References

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

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