different between tanka vs tanda

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

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