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5-letter words (2 found)

TANGO,TONGA,

4-letter words (8 found)

AGON,GANT,GNAT,GOAT,NOTA,TANG,TOGA,TONG,

3-letter words (17 found)

AGO,ANT,GAN,GAT,GOA,GON,GOT,NAG,NAT,NOG,NOT,OAT,TAG,TAN,TAO,TOG,TON,

2-letter words (9 found)

AG,AN,AT,GO,NA,NO,ON,TA,TO,

You can make 36 words from tango according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tango

tango atngo tnago ntago antgo natgo tagno atgno tgano gtano agtno gatno tngao ntgao tgnao gtnao ngtao gntao angto nagto agnto ganto ngato gnato tanog atnog tnaog ntaog antog natog taong atong toang otang aotng oatng tnoag ntoag tonag otnag notag ontag anotg naotg aontg oantg noatg onatg tagon atgon tgaon gtaon agton gaton taogn atogn toagn otagn aotgn oatgn tgoan gtoan togan otgan gotan ogtan agotn gaotn aogtn oagtn goatn ogatn tngoa ntgoa tgnoa gtnoa ngtoa gntoa tnoga ntoga tonga otnga notga ontga tgona gtona togna otgna gotna ogtna ngota gnota nogta ongta gonta ognta angot nagot agnot ganot ngaot gnaot anogt naogt aongt oangt noagt onagt agont gaont aognt oagnt goant ogant ngoat gnoat nogat ongat gonat ognat

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Definitions and meaning of tango

tango

Translingual

Noun

tango

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tango of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Etymology 1

Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtæŋɡəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtæŋɡoʊ/
Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

Noun

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

  1. A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
  2. (usually plural) A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
  3. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
  4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

  1. To dance the tango.
  2. (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
See also
  • it takes two to tango

Etymology 2

From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).

Noun

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

  1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  3. (US, law enforcement, military slang) A target; an enemy.

Further reading

  • “tango down”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

  • Atong, Tonga, on tag, tag on, tonga

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧ngo
  • IPA(key): /taˈŋoʔ/, [taˈŋoʔ]

Noun

tangô

  1. a nod

Derived terms

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧ngo

Noun

tango

  1. A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
  2. A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
  3. A tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar.

Verb

tango

  1. To nod.

Czech

Noun

tango n

  1. tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tanɡo/, [ˈtˢɑŋɡ̊o]

Noun

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

  1. tango

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋ.ɡoː/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧go

Noun

tango m (plural tango's)

  1. tango (Argentine-Uruguayan dance and musical style)

Finnish

Etymology

From Argentine-Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋːo/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ŋːo̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋːo
  • Syllabification(key): tan‧go

Noun

tango

  1. tango

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tango”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Tonga, togan, tonga

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑ̃.ɡo/

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (dance)
  2. tango (music)

Derived terms

  • tango argentin

Descendants

  • Turkish: tango

Further reading

  • “tango”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tanguer

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtan.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -anɡo
  • Hyphenation: tàn‧go

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tango.

Noun

tango m (plural tanghi)

  1. tango

Etymology 2

Verb

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

Further reading

  • tango in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • Tonga

Japanese

Romanization

tango

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんご
  2. Rōmaji transcription of タンゴ

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō), τεταγών (tetagṓn), Old English þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ɡoː/, [ˈt̪äŋɡoː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ɡo/, [ˈt̪äŋɡo]

Verb

tangō (present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetigī, supine tāctum); third conjugation

  1. (transitive) to touch, grasp
  2. (transitive) to reach, arrive at, come to a place
  3. (transitive) to attain to
  4. (transitive) to subtract, rob
  5. (transitive) to strike, beat, knock
  6. (transitive) to move, affect, influence
  7. (transitive) to bewitch, enchant, charm
  8. (transitive) to come home to

Conjugation

1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

Synonyms

  • (touch): contingo, tempto
  • (arrive): perveniō, adveniō, ēvādō, obeō, adsum, teneō, prehendō
  • (grasp): apiscor, prehenso, tempto, teneo
  • (beat): ferio, percello, discutio, pulsō, ico, affligo, pello, percutiō, impingo, accido, caedo, verbero
  • (affect): perpello

Derived terms

  • attingō
  • contingō
  • obtingō
  • pertingō

Related terms

  • contāminō
  • integer
  • rem acū tetigistī, acū tetigistī
  • tāctilis
  • tāctus
  • tagāx
  • tangibilis
  • taxō

Descendants

References

  • “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tango in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaŋ.ɡɔ/
  • Rhymes: -aŋɡɔ
  • Syllabification: tan‧go

Noun

tango n

  1. tango (ballroom dance)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tango in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tango in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃ɡu
  • Hyphenation: tan‧go

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (ballroom dance)
  2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Etymology 2

Verb

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

Romanian

Noun

tango n (plural tangouri)

  1. Obsolete form of tangou.

Declension

References

  • tango in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Sambali

Noun

tangô

  1. nod

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tânɡo/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧go

Noun

tȁngo m (Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)

  1. tango (dance)

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaŋɡɔ/

Noun

tango n (genitive singular tanga, nominative plural tangá, genitive plural táng, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. (dance) tango

Declension

Derived terms

  • tangový

Further reading

  • “tango”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtanɡo/ [ˈt̪ãŋ.ɡo]
  • Rhymes: -anɡo
  • Syllabification: tan‧go

Etymology 1

Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (ballroom dance)
  2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: tango
  • → Polish: tango
  • → Portuguese: tango
  • → Swedish: tango

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

Further reading

  • “tango”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

  • Tonga

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tango (ma class, plural matango)

  1. cucumber
    Synonym: tangopepeta

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaŋɡʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aŋɡʊ

Noun

tango c

  1. (dance) tango

Declension

References

  • tango in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

  • antog

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Bikol Central tango, Kapampangan tangu, and Maranao dango.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧ngo
  • IPA(key): /taˈŋoʔ/, [tɐˈŋoʔ]

Noun

tangô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅᜓ)

  1. nod; nodding (of the head)
    Synonym: pagtango
  2. (by extension) consent; agreement
    Synonyms: pagpayag, pagsang-ayon, pag-oo, pagpapahinuhod, pagpapaoo

Derived terms

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈta.ŋo]

Verb

tango

  1. (intransitive) to lie down

Conjugation

References

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

Waray-Waray

Noun

tangó

  1. canine tooth
  2. tusk of animals

Source: wiktionary.org