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Etymology 1

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From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, short song), from Middle Chinese (MC twanX) (MC ka) (compare Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) duǎngē).

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tanka (plural tankas or tanka)

  1. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.
    • 1996, Makoto Ueda, Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology, →ISBN:
      Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century.
    • 2007, Hiroaki Sato, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections, page 38:
      One tanka poet who directly influenced Kenji is Ishikawa takuboku, who lineated tanka—an extraordinary break with the tradition of writing tanka in one line.
    • 2016, Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, Kimi Akita, The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics, page 121:
      The notion of rhyming in Japanese tanka poetry is applied differently from what we observe in the Western poetry tradition.
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Etymology 2

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See thangka.

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tanka (plural tankas)

  1. Alternative form of thangka (Tibetan religious artwork)
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 224:
      In the practice of yoga certain functions which were previously subconscious become open to consciousness; this opening of the subconscious is well pictured in certain Tibetan tankas, or in Western art, in the Temptation of St. Anthony paintings by Bosch and Grünewald.
    • 1981 January-April, News Tibet, volume 16, number 1, page 15:
      A powerful 17th to 18th century example of the endless cycle of rebirth is this primitively painted tanka called “The Wheel of Existence." It was displayed with alarming vividness at the entrance to most Tibetan temples.
    • 1988, Victor H. Mair, Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis, page 123:
      He has hung up his tanka (Tibetan thaṅka, a religious painting that is usually mounted on fabric) on the wall and is sitting down to the left of it.
    • 1997, Anne Maiden Brown, Edie Farwell, Dickey Nyerongsha, The Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood, page 8:
      Tashi is unable to establish himself yet as a tanka painter in Dharamsala, so he has taken a job at the Tibetan Library assisting other tanka painters.

Etymology 3

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See Tanka.

Noun

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tanka (plural tankas)

  1. Alternative form of Tanka (ethnic group of boat people living in China)
    • 1831, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia:
      And when foreigners go and come from Whampoa to Canton, tanka-boats and boats with families must not be employed.
    • 1835, The Chinese Repository, page 392:
      At every landing place behind the hongs, (i. e. in the front of the factories,) where barbarians reside, they must not allow the tanka boats to anchor.
    • 1845, Miscellaneous Remarks Upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trades, Manners, and Customs of the Chinese:
      In Macao roads, where vessels usually stop before proceeding up to the Canton anchorage, the tanka boats are generally navigated by young girls, in competition with whom the old women meet with poor encouragement.
    • 1927, Herbert Ernest Gregory, Report of the director for 1926, page 6:
      Speaking of an interesting group of people near Canton, he says : Both the Tanka (boat people) and Hakka (another ethnic group, distinct from the Cantonese, living on land) have distinctive dialects and differ in phvsique from The Cantonese.
  2. A kind of boat used in Guangdong, about 25 feet long and often rowed by Tanka women; junk.
    • 1837, Edmund Roberts, Embassy to the eastern courts of CochinChina, Siam and Muscat:
      Immediately on our nearing the harbour, a race took place among the amphibious damsels that inhabit the numerous sampans, tanka or egg-boats, which always lie within a short distance of the shore.
    • 1866, William Ainsworth, All Around the World:
      The tanka is a small boat, almost as wide as long, and differing therein much from the sharp and narrow canoes of the Malays. The crew generally consists of an elderly woman, who sits or stands at the stern, rotating with a vigorous and experienced arm the long oar which is the great propeller of all boats in the Celestial Empire.
    • 1967, Stan Hugill, Sailortown, page 56:
      These craft, the tanka, were the homes of thousands of true seamen — people who rarely came ashore ;

Etymology 4

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Ultimately from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, chisel; tanka).

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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, page 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, published 2013, page 42:
      The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
    • 2011, Najaf Haider, edited by Irfan Habib, 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 Muḥammad Tughluq, after striking the ṭanka 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 ṭanka.
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Etymology

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From Japanese 短歌 (tanka).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋkɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ŋkɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): tan‧ka

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tanka

  1. tanka (Japanese verse)

Declension

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Inflection of tanka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative tanka tankat
genitive tankan tankojen
partitive tankaa tankoja
illative tankaan tankoihin
singular plural
nominative tanka tankat
accusative nom. tanka tankat
gen. tankan
genitive tankan tankojen
tankain rare
partitive tankaa tankoja
inessive tankassa tankoissa
elative tankasta tankoista
illative tankaan tankoihin
adessive tankalla tankoilla
ablative tankalta tankoilta
allative tankalle tankoille
essive tankana tankoina
translative tankaksi tankoiksi
abessive tankatta tankoitta
instructive tankoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of tanka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative tankani tankani
accusative nom. tankani tankani
gen. tankani
genitive tankani tankojeni
tankaini rare
partitive tankaani tankojani
inessive tankassani tankoissani
elative tankastani tankoistani
illative tankaani tankoihini
adessive tankallani tankoillani
ablative tankaltani tankoiltani
allative tankalleni tankoilleni
essive tankanani tankoinani
translative tankakseni tankoikseni
abessive tankattani tankoittani
instructive
comitative tankoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative tankasi tankasi
accusative nom. tankasi tankasi
gen. tankasi
genitive tankasi tankojesi
tankaisi rare
partitive tankaasi tankojasi
inessive tankassasi tankoissasi
elative tankastasi tankoistasi
illative tankaasi tankoihisi
adessive tankallasi tankoillasi
ablative tankaltasi tankoiltasi
allative tankallesi tankoillesi
essive tankanasi tankoinasi
translative tankaksesi tankoiksesi
abessive tankattasi tankoittasi
instructive
comitative tankoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative tankamme tankamme
accusative nom. tankamme tankamme
gen. tankamme
genitive tankamme tankojemme
tankaimme rare
partitive tankaamme tankojamme
inessive tankassamme tankoissamme
elative tankastamme tankoistamme
illative tankaamme tankoihimme
adessive tankallamme tankoillamme
ablative tankaltamme tankoiltamme
allative tankallemme tankoillemme
essive tankanamme tankoinamme
translative tankaksemme tankoiksemme
abessive tankattamme tankoittamme
instructive
comitative tankoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative tankanne tankanne
accusative nom. tankanne tankanne
gen. tankanne
genitive tankanne tankojenne
tankainne rare
partitive tankaanne tankojanne
inessive tankassanne tankoissanne
elative tankastanne tankoistanne
illative tankaanne tankoihinne
adessive tankallanne tankoillanne
ablative tankaltanne tankoiltanne
allative tankallenne tankoillenne
essive tankananne tankoinanne
translative tankaksenne tankoiksenne
abessive tankattanne tankoittanne
instructive
comitative tankoinenne

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tanka

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんか

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tanka

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

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From English tank.

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tanka (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanka/tank)

  1. tank (put fuel into a tank)

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tanka

  1. inflection of tankar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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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

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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.

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Declension of tanka
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tanka tankas
definite tankan tankans
plural indefinite
definite

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tanka (present tankar, preterite tankade, supine tankat, imperative tanka)

  1. to refuel, to fill up (put gasoline in a tank)
  2. (slang) to drink large quantities of alcohol; to booze
  3. (computing, slang) to download large quantities of data

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