English

Noun

Tanka ‎(plural Tankas)

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

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

• tankia

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.

Anagrams

• kanat

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tanka

1. tanka (Japanese verse)

Declension

Anagrams

• ankat, kanat, kanta, katan, takan

Japanese

Romanization

tanka

1. rōmaji reading of たんか

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tanket

Verb

tanka

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

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.

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