different between tanha vs tanka

English

Etymology

From Pali ta?h?.

Noun

tanha (uncountable)

1. (Buddhism) Cravings; desires.

Anagrams

• Ahtna, Anath, Athan, athan, tahan, tanah, thana

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese ?? (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese ? (twán "short") + ? (ka "song") (compare Mandarin ?? du?ng?).

Noun

tanka

1. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Japanese ?? (tanka).

Noun

tanka

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

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• Tanka
• tankia

Noun

tanka (plural tankas)

1. An ethnic group of boat people in the Canton area.
2. A kind of boat used in Canton, about 25 feet long and often rowed by tanka women; junk.

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 Mu?ammad Tughluq, after striking the ?anka 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 ?anka.

Anagrams

• kanat

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tanka

1. tanka (Japanese verse)

Declension

Anagrams

• ankat, kanat, kanta, katan, takan

Japanese

Romanization

tanka

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tanket

Verb

tanka

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

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 tank)

1. tank (put fuel into a tank)

References

• “tanka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

tanka

1. inflection of tanak:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
   3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
   4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Noun

tanka c

1. (archaic) thought

   ... 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 (present tankar, preterite tankade, supine tankat, imperative 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

Anagrams

• kanat, kanta