English

Noun

thana ‎(plural thanas)

1. An Indian military outpost.
2. (India) A police station, or a police jurisdiction.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.

   • 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 70:

     Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.

Related terms

• thanadar

Anagrams

• Ahtna
• athan, Athan

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• thena

Determiner

thana

1. Accusative singular masculine form of thē