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tanah

tanah 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.

Forms of tanah

pluraltanahs

Phrases with tanah

Questions about tanah

What is tanah the alternative form of?
Tanah is the alternative form of thana.

Words near tanah in the dictionary

  1. Tanagras
  2. Tanagrean
  3. Tanagreans
  4. tanagrine
  5. tanagroid
  6. tanah
  7. Tanah Merah
  8. tanahdar
  9. tanahdars
  10. Tanahjampea bent-toed gecko
  11. Tanahjampea bent-toed geckos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tanah (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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