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5-letter words (1 found)

TANKA,

4-letter words (7 found)

ANTA,KANA,KANT,KATA,TAKA,TANA,TANK,

3-letter words (7 found)

AKA,ANA,ANT,KAT,NAT,TAK,TAN,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AN,AT,KA,NA,TA,

You can make 21 words from tanka according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tanka

tanka atnka tnaka ntaka antka natka takna atkna tkana ktana aktna katna tnkaa ntkaa tknaa ktnaa nktaa kntaa ankta nakta aknta kanta nkata knata tanak atnak tnaak ntaak antak natak taank atank taank atank aatnk aatnk tnaak ntaak tanak atnak natak antak anatk naatk aantk aantk naatk anatk takan atkan tkaan ktaan aktan katan taakn atakn taakn atakn aatkn aatkn tkaan ktaan takan atkan katan aktan akatn kaatn aaktn aaktn kaatn akatn tnkaa ntkaa tknaa ktnaa nktaa kntaa tnaka ntaka tanka atnka natka antka tkana ktana takna atkna katna aktna nkata knata nakta ankta kanta aknta ankat nakat aknat kanat nkaat knaat anakt naakt aankt aankt naakt anakt akant kaant aaknt aaknt kaant akant nkaat knaat nakat ankat kanat aknat

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Definitions and meaning of tanka

tanka

Etymology 1

From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese 短 (MC twanX) 歌 (MC ka) (compare Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) duǎngē).

Noun

tanka (plural tankas or tanka)

  1. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.
Translations

Etymology 2

See thangka.

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

  1. Alternative form of thangka (“Tibetan religious artwork”)

Etymology 3

See Tanka.

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

  1. Alternative form of Tanka (“ethnic group of boat people living in China”)
  2. A kind of boat used in Guangdong, about 25 feet long and often rowed by Tanka women; junk.

Etymology 4

Ultimately from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “chisel; tanka”).

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

  1. (historical) A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.
Alternative forms
  • taka, tucka

Anagrams

  • kanat

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 短歌 (tanka).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋkɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ŋkɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑ
  • Syllabification(key): tan‧ka

Noun

tanka

  1. tanka (Japanese verse)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tanka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (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

  • ankat, kanat, kanta, katan, takan

Japanese

Romanization

tanka

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんか

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • tanket

Verb

tanka

  1. inflection of tanke:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • tanke

Etymology

From English tank.

Verb

tanka (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanka/tank)

  1. tank (put fuel into a tank)

References

  • “tanka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

tanka

  1. inflection of tankar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

tanka

  1. inflection of tanak:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Noun

tanka c

  1. (archaic) thought
    ... på Månan, och har gifvit anledning till den oriktiga tankan att där finnas eldsprutande berg.
    ... on the Moon, and has given occasion to the incorrect thought that it has fire-spouting mountains.

Declension

Verb

tanka (present tankar, preterite tankade, supine tankat, imperative tanka)

  1. to refuel; to fill a tank with fuel
  2. (slang) to drink large quantities of alcohol; to booze
  3. (computing, slang) to download large quantities of data

Conjugation

Related terms

  • tanka ner
  • tanka upp
  • tankning

Anagrams

  • kanat, kanta

Source: wiktionary.org