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thana

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

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upazila

English

Etymology

From Bengali ?????? (upjela)

Noun

upazila (plural upazilas)

  1. After divisions and districts, the third largest type of administrative division in Bangladesh.

Related terms

  • thana

Translations

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