different between tango vs tanda

English

Etymology

Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tæ????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tæ??o?/

Rhymes: -æ????

Noun

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

1. A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
2. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
3. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
4. (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
5. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

Translations

Verb

tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

1. To dance the tango.
2. (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
   • 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs (page 67)

     Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.

See also

• it takes two to tango

Anagrams

• Atong, Tonga, on tag, tag on, tonga

Bikol Central

Verb

tangò

1. To nod.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?ngo

Noun

tango

1. A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
2. A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
3. A tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar.

Verb

tango

1. To nod.

Czech

Noun

tango n

1. tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tan?o/, [?t?????o]

Noun

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

1. tango

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.?o?/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

tango m (plural tango's)

1. tango (Argentine-Uruguayan dance and musical style)

Finnish

Etymology

From Argentine-Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???o/, [?t????o?]
• Rhymes: -???o
• Syllabification: tan?go

Noun

tango

1. tango

Declension

Anagrams

• Tonga, togan, tonga

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.?o/

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (dance)
2. tango (music)

Derived terms

• tango argentin

Further reading

• “tango” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tan.?o/
• Rhymes: -an?o

Etymology 1

From Spanish tango.

Noun

tango m (plural tanghi)

1. tango

Etymology 2

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

Anagrams

• Tonga

Further reading

• tango in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

tango

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tang?, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh?g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (táss?), ??????? (tetag?n), Old English þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tan.?o?/, [?t?ä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tan.?o/, [?t?????]

Verb

tang? (present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetig?, supine t?ctum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) I touch, grasp.

   N?l? m? tangere.

   Don't touch me.

2. (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
3. (transitive) I attain to.
4. (transitive) I move, affect.
5. (transitive) I come home to.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• atting?
• conting?
• obting?
• perting?

Related terms

• cont?min?
• integer
• rem ac? tetigist?, ac? tetigist?
• t?ctilis
• tangibilis
• tax?

Descendants

References

• tango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tan.??/

Noun

tango n

1. tango (ballroom dance)

Declension

Further reading

• tango in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tango in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??.?u/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

Sambali

Noun

tangô

1. nod

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tân?o/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

t?ngo m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tango (dance)

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta???/

Noun

tango n (genitive singular tanga, nominative plural tangá, genitive plural táng, declension pattern of mesto)

1. (dance) tango

Declension

Derived terms

• tangový

Further reading

• tango in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Derived terms

• tanguito

Anagrams

• Tonga

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tango (ma class, plural matango)

1. cucumber

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta???/
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

tango c

1. (dance) tango

Declension

References

• tango in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• antog

Tagalog

Noun

tangô

1. nod

Waray-Waray

Noun

tangó

1. canine tooth
2. tusk of animals

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tanda (literally “turn”).

Noun

tanda (plural tandas)

1. A turn of dancing in a milonga or tango.

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (tan??m, “arrangement”). The modern singular would represent a backformation from an earlier plural *tàndens.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?tan.d?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tan.da/

Noun

tanda f (plural tandes)

1. shift (period of duty), turn

   Synonym: torn

2. shift (group of workers)
3. series, set, batch

   Synonyms: sèrie, seguit

Derived terms

• atandar (“to take a turn”)
• tanda de dia (“dayshift”)
• tanda de nit (“nightshift”)
• tanda de penals (“penalty shootout”)

Further reading

• “tanda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Noun

tanda (first-person possessive tandaku, second-person possessive tandamu, third-person possessive tandanya)

1. sign, mark

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tanda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tän.dä/, /tän.d?/

Noun

tanda (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tanda-tanda, informal 1st possessive tandaku, impolite 2nd possessive tandamu, 3rd possessive tandanya)

1. sign, mark, signal, spot, symbol

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tanda” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Etymology

Cognate to Catalan tanda and Galician tanda, of unknown origin, suggested to be from an instance noun Arabic ???????? (?amda, “bandage”) from the root ? ? ?? (?-m-d) being metaphorically used, however, apart from this semantic development being dubious, not only the consonants do not match but this Arabic noun is of utmost rarity. A more down-to-earth etymology derives it from a Latin tanta (literally “that much”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tanda/, [?t?ãn?.d?a]
• Rhymes: -anda

Noun

tanda f (plural tandas)

1. time, instance

   Synonyms: vez, turno, pasada

2. duty, turn

   Synonym: turno

3. shift

4. task, work

   Synonym: tarea

5. group, series, batch

   Synonym: serie

6. (music, film, theater) performance, show, session (instance of a series of performances or a movie shows)

   Synonyms: función, sesión

7. (sports) match (instance in series of games)
8. (colloquial, Latin America) beating, bashing
9. (bullfighting) series of steps taken by the bullfighter and bull before the estocada

Derived terms

• tanda de penaltis (“penalty shootout”)

Descendants

• ? English: tanda

References

• “tanda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Corriente, Federico (2008) , “tanda”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 449

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-tanda (infinitive kutanda)

1. to cover, extend

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Static: -tandama (“lie stretched out”)

Inflection

Swedish

Etymology

tand +? -a

Verb

tanda (present tandar, preterite tandade, supine tandat, imperative tanda)

1. to teethe

Conjugation

Anagrams

• danat, datan

Tagalog

Noun

tanda

1. sign, mark

Derived terms

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English thunder.

Noun

tanda

1. thunder

Turkish

Noun

tanda

1. locative singular of tan