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Tanaïs

Tanaïs is the alternative form of Tanais.

Meaning of Tanais

Proper noun

Tanais

  1. (historical) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
  2. An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Questions about Tanaïs

What is Tanaïs the alternative form of?
Tanaïs is the alternative form of Tanais.

Words near Tanaïs in the dictionary

  1. Tanat
  2. Tanat Valley
  3. Tanauan
  4. Tanay
  5. Tanaytay
  6. Tanaïs
  7. tanbark
  8. tanbarks
  9. tanbur
  10. tanburag
  11. tanburags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tanaïs (page history and authors); Tanais (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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