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tana

tana is the alternative form of thana.

Meaning of thana

Noun

thana (plural thanas)

  1. (India) A military outpost.
  2. (India) A police station or police jurisdiction.
    • 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.1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387
  3. (Bangladesh) A subdistrict in cities, equivalent to upazilas.

Noun (1)

tana (plural tanas)

  1. The banxring or tree shrew.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tana

Tana

  1. Nickname for Antananarivo: the capital and largest city of Madagascar.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tana

Tana

  1. A lake in Ethiopia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Tana

Tana (plural Tanas or Tanaim)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tanna (“a rabbinic sage”).

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Tana

Tana

  1. A female given name, Alternative form of Tanya.

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Tana

Tana

  1. A river in Kenya.

Forms of tana

pluraltanas
pluralTanas
pluralTanaim

Origin of tana

Borrowed from French Tana.

Borrowed from Amharic ጣና (ṭana).

Words formed from tana

Questions about tana

What does tana mean?
Tana means the banxring or tree shrew.
What is tana the alternative form of?
Tana is the alternative form of thana.
What part of speech is tana?
Tana can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tana?
The plural of tana is tanas.

Words near tana in the dictionary

  1. Tan-feng
  2. Tan-kea
  3. Tan-shui
  4. Tan-tung
  5. Tan-y-Bwlch
  6. tana
  7. Tanabag
  8. Tanabata
  9. Tanabe
  10. Tanabu
  11. Tanacerin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tana (page history and authors); Tana (page history and authors); thana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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