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English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?tæn?/
• Homophone: Tanner
• Rhymes: -æn?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan +? -er.

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

1. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from the name of the coin designer, John Sigismund Tanner (died 1775)

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence.

   Synonyms: hog, (from Cockney rhyming slang) lord, sixpence

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

1. A type of commercially-fished crab, Chionoecetes bairdi or Chionoecetes opilio.

Adjective

tanner

1. comparative form of tan: more tan
   • 2011, Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite (page 173)

     He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tanner (genitive tandri, partitive tandrit)

1. Alternative form of tander

Inflection

Finnish

Alternative forms

• tantere

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tander. Cognate to Karelian tanner, Karelian tannar, Veps tandar, Veps tandarta (“to tread down”), Veps tandreh, Estonian tanderdada (“id., dialectal”), Estonian tandermik (“playground”), Proto-Samic *tuontër (“a kind of mountain in Lapland”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n?er/, [?t??n?e?r]
• Rhymes: -?n?er
• Syllabification: tan?ner

Noun

tanner

1. field
2. ground
3. hard tamped soil or snow
4. yard
5. open flat area

Declension

Derived terms

• tannertaa (“to tread down, tread tough”) (dialectal)

See also

• manner
• mantere
• penger
• penkere
• kinner
• kintere
• Tonttu Tonteri (a traditional name for a pixy)
• Tonteri (a Finnish surname)

Compounds

• taistelutanner
• sotatanner

References

Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

tan +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ne/
• Homophones: tannai, tanné, tannée, tannées, tannés, tannez

Verb

tanner

1. (transitive) to tan (in leather-making)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Old French

Verb

tanner

1. Alternative form of taner

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-nn, *-nns, *-nnt are modified to n, ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (tann?r).

Noun

tanner (definite accusative tanneri, plural tannerler)

1. plate
2. dish

Synonyms

• tabak

English

Etymology

tank +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ?k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Noun

tanker (plural tankers)

1. (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
2. (automotive, US) A tank truck.
3. (automotive, Britain) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
4. (aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.

5. (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.

6. (rail transport) A tank car
7. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
   • 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN), page 70:

     On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]

8. (surfing slang) A longboard.

   I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip

Synonyms

• (military): tankman, tankist
• (military): trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
• (military): zipperhead (Canadian military slang)

Derived terms

• air tanker
• oil tanker
• supertanker

Translations

Verb

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)

1. (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
2. (aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.

Anagrams

• Kanter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tank?r/, [?t??n????]

Etymology 1

Noun

tanker c

1. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 2

From English tanker

Noun

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)

Synonyms

• tankskib

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tanker.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?t??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)

1. A tanker (type of cargo ship).

   Synonym: tankschip

Derived terms

• gastanker
• mammoettanker
• olietanker

French

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers)

1. tanker (vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English tanker

Noun

tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. (nautical) a tanker

Synonyms

• tankbåt, tankskip

Derived terms

• oljetanker

See also

• tankar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Noun

tanker m

1. indefinite plural of tank
2. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 3

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

References

• “tanker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tanker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nker/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker

Noun

tànker m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Declension