different between thana vs thang

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

English

Etymology

An altered spelling of thing, representing pronunciation in the southern United States (see thank–think merger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

thang (plural thangs)

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of thing, usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity.

Derived terms

• ain't nothing but a thang

Dimasa

Verb

thang

1. to go

Min Nan

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t?a????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t?a????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [t?a????]

Etymology 1

Noun

(classifier cái, chi?c) thang • (?)

1. a ladder

Derived terms

• leo thang (“to escalate”)
• c?u thang (“staircase”)

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

thang

1. (alternative medicine) a prescribed dose of Chinese or Vietnamese medicine

Derived terms