different between ohana vs thana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian ?ohana (“family, kin”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??h??n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?
• Hyphenation: oha?na

Noun

ohana (plural ohanas)

1. (chiefly Hawaii) An extended Hawaiian family unit.

Alternative forms

• ?ohana
• 'ohana (misspelling)

Translations

Notes

Further reading

• ohana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ohana (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A.A.O.H.N.

Japanese

Romanization

ohana

1. R?maji transcription of ???

English

Alternative forms

• tana
• tanna
• tannah
• thanna
• thannah

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (th?n?), from Sanskrit ????? (sth?na, “military outpost”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n?/

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, Anath, Athan, athan, tahan, tanah, tanha

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• thena

Determiner

thana

1. accusative masculine singular of th?

Descendants

• Low German: den

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (stana).

Noun

thana m

1. the breast of a woman