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Tanka

Tan′ka

,
Noun.
(Naut.)
A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also
tankia
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S. W. Williams.

Definition 2024


Tanka

Tanka

See also: tanka, tankā, and tänka

English

Noun

Tanka (plural Tankas)

  1. A member of a group of people in southern China who traditionally live on junks.

tanka

tanka

See also: tanke, tenke, Tanka, tankā, tänka, and tænke

English

Translations

Etymology 2

From Japanese 啖呵 (tanka).

Noun

tanka

  1. a strong, forceful expression
  2. a Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric.

Etymology 3

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

  1. A kind of boat used in Canton, about 25 feet long and often rowed by women.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of S. W. Williams to this entry?)
Synonyms

Etymology 4

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

  1. (historical) A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.
    • 1994, Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, p. 29:
      In Uzbek Turan Shah Rukh's tanka remained the standard silver coin and weighed an average of slightly more than 5 g throughout the sixteenth century.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 42:
      The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
    • 2011, Najaf Haider, in Irfan Habib (Ed.), Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500, Vol. VIII part 1, p. 152:
      A major shift in the usage of silver and billion coinage came about in the second quarter of the fourteenth century when Muḥammad Tughluq, after striking the ṭanka of 169.8 grains in the beginning, replaced it with a coin of lower weight (144 grains) called ‘adli, which was then treated as the standard ṭanka.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt̪ɑŋkɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑ
  • Hyphenation: tan‧ka

Noun

tanka

  1. tanka (Japanese verse)

Declension

Inflection of tanka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative tanka tankat
genitive tankan tankojen
partitive tankaa tankoja
illative tankaan tankoihin
singular plural
nominative tanka tankat
accusative nom. tanka tankat
gen. tankan
genitive tankan tankojen
tankainrare
partitive tankaa tankoja
inessive tankassa tankoissa
elative tankasta tankoista
illative tankaan tankoihin
adessive tankalla tankoilla
ablative tankalta tankoilta
allative tankalle tankoille
essive tankana tankoina
translative tankaksi tankoiksi
instructive tankoin
abessive tankatta tankoitta
comitative tankoineen

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Japanese

Romanization

tanka

  1. rōmaji reading of たんか

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

tanka

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

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


Swedish

Noun

tanka c

  1. (archaic) thought; an antiquated female-gender form of tanke
    ... 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

  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 upp
  • tankning