tank

See also: Tank, tänk, and tànk

English

A military tank.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tæŋk/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -æŋk

Etymology 1

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ‎ (istanqaʿa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).

In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

A closed container for liquids or gases.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 29:
  The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- 1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back
  The tanks are full and the grass is high.
The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
The amount held by a container; a tankful.
I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
(Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
(Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
(Southwestern US, chiefly Texas) By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
(role-playing games, board games, video games) a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
(US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
(poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
(rail transport) Short for tank engine and tank locomotive.
- 1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Longest Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 431-432:
  Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.

Synonyms

(military fighting vehicle): battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)

Antonyms

(gaming): glass cannon

Hypernyms

(military fighting vehicle): armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle

Hyponyms

(military fighting vehicle): infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), superheavy tank (historical), tankette (historical), bobbin tank (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flail tank, flame tank, flamethrower tank

Coordinate terms

(military fighting vehicle): armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, SPG, tank destroyer, assault gun

Derived terms

Terms derived from tank (noun)

antitank
battle tank
bobbin tank
cavalry tank
combat tank
cruiser tank
empty the tank
fast tank
fish tank
flail tank
flame tank
flamethrower tank
heavy tank
infantry tank
in the tank
leave nothing in the tank
light tank
main battle tank
medium tank
pannier tank
retention tank
saddle tank, saddletank
side tank
superheavy tank
tankbuster
tank car
tank destroyer
tank engine
tanker
tankette
tank farm
tankful
tankini
tanklike
tank locomotive
tankship
tankside
tankstand, tank stand
tank suit
tank top
tank wagon
think tank

Descendants

→ Afrikaans: tenk
→ Albanian: tank
→ Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)
→ Asturian: tanque
→ Azerbaijani: tank
→ Bashkir: танк (tank)
→ Belarusian: танк (tank)
→ Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭẏaṅkô)
→ Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)
→ Buryat: танк (tank)
→ Catalan: tanc
→ Chechen: танк (tank)
→ Chinese:
- Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)
→ Chuvash: танк (tank)
→ Czech: tank
→ Danish: tank
→ Dutch: tank
→ Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)
→ Eastern Mari: танк (tank)
→ Estonian: tank
→ Fiji Hindi: tanki
→ Finnish: tankki
→ French: tank
→ Galician: tanque
→ Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)
→ German: Tank
→ Greek: τανκ (tank)
→ Greenlandic: tanki
→ Hebrew: טנק‎ (tank)
→ Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
- → Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)
→ Indonesian: tank
→ Italian: tank, tanca
→ Japanese: タンク (tanku)
→ Kazakh: танк (tank)
→ Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)
→ Kumyk: танк (tank)
→ Kyrgyz: танк (tank)
→ Latvian: tanks
→ Lezgi: танк (tank)
→ Lithuanian: tankas
→ Macedonian: тенк (tenk)
→ Malay: tank
→ Maori: taika
→ Norwegian: tank, tanks
→ Ossetian: танк (tank)
→ Persian: تانک‎ (tânk)
→ Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)
→ Quechua: tanki
→ Romanian: tanc
→ Romansch: tanc
→ Russian: танк (tank)
- → Armenian: տանկ (tank)
- → Kazakh: танк (tank)
- → Mongolian: танк (tank)
→ Rusyn: танк (tank)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тенк
Latin: tenk
→ Sidamo: tanke
→ Slovak: tank
→ Slovene: tank
→ Swahili: tangi
→ Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)
→ Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)
→ Tatar: танк (tank)
→ Tokelauan: tane
→ Turkish: tank
→ Turkmen: tank
→ Ukrainian: танк (tank)
→ Upper Sorbian: tank
→ Urdu: ٹینک‎ (ṭaink)
→ Uzbek: tank
→ Vietnamese: xe tăng
→ Walloon: tank
→ Welsh: tanc
→ Yakut: тааҥка (taaŋka)
→ Yiddish: טאַנק‎ (tank)

Translations

closed container for fluids

Afrikaans: tenk (af)
Arabic: فِنْطَاس‎ m (finṭās)
Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)
Belarusian: бак m (bak)
Bulgarian: резервоа́р (bg) m (rezervoár)
Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (my) (tuingki)
Catalan: tanc (ca) m, dipòsit (ca) m
Cebuano: tangke
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罐 (zh) (guàn)
Czech: nádrž (cs) f
Danish: tank (da) c, beholder (da) c
Dutch: vat (nl) n, tank (nl) m
Esperanto: cisterno
Finnish: säiliö (fi), tankki (fi)
French: citerne (fr) f, réservoir (fr) m, bonbonne (fr) f, tank (fr) m (Quebec), bouteille (fr) f (gas)
Galician: tanque (gl) m
German: Behälter (de) m, Tank (de) m
Greek: δεξαμενή (el) f (dexamení), δοχείο (el) n (docheío)
Hebrew: מֵיכָל‎ (he) m (meikhal)
Hindi: टंकी (hi) f (ṭaṅkī)
Hungarian: tartály (hu), tank (hu), tározó, ciszterna (hu), hordó (hu)
Icelandic: tankur m
Ido: tanko (io)
Indonesian: tangki (id), tabung (id)
Interlingua: tank
Italian: tanica (it), serbatoio (it), bombola (it) f (scuba diving), cisterna (it) f
Japanese: ドラム缶 (どらむかん, doramu kan), タンク (ja) (tanku), 缶 (ja) (かん, kan)
Korean: 탱크 (ko) (taengkeu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tank (ku) f
Latin: lacus (la) m
Latvian: cisterna f, tvertne f
Macedonian: резервоа́р m (rezervoár)
Malay: tangki (ms)
Maori: taika, kurawai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tank m
Nynorsk: tank m
Polish: zbiornik (pl) m
Portuguese: tanque (pt) m
Romanian: tanc rezervor n, rezervor (ro) n, recipient (ro)
Russian: бак (ru) m (bak), цисте́рна (ru) f (cistɛ́rna), ёмкость (ru) f (jómkostʹ), сосу́д (ru) m (sosúd), балло́н (ru) m (ballón) (scuba diving)
Scottish Gaelic: amar m
Slovak: nádrž f
Spanish: tanque (es) m
Swahili: tangi (sw)
Swedish: tank (sv) c, dyktub c (scuba diving)
Sylheti: ꠐꠦꠋꠇꠤ (ṭeṅki)
Tagalog: tangke
Ukrainian: бак (uk) m (bak)
Vietnamese: thùng (vi)
Welsh: tank, tanc

open container for liquids

Bulgarian: басе́йн (bg) m (baséjn)
Finnish: allas (fi), säiliö (fi)
French: cuve (fr) f, réservoir (fr) m, aquarium (fr) m (fish)
Galician: tanque (gl) m
German: Becken (de) n, Tank (de) m
Hungarian: tartály (hu), tank (hu), tározó, ciszterna (hu), hordó (hu), itató (hu) (for animals)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: birk (ku) f
Latin: lacus (la) m
Russian: таз (ru) m (taz), аква́риум (ru) m (akvárium) (for fish)
Spanish: tanque (es) m
Vietnamese: bể (vi)

pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial

Bulgarian: водое́м m (vodoém)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 池 (zh) (chí)
Finnish: lampi (fi) (natural); allas (fi) (artificial, or as technical term)
Hungarian: tározó
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: birk (ku) f
Polish: basen (pl) m
Polish: basen (pl) m
Russian: водоём (ru) m (vodojóm)
Tamil: கண்மாய் (ta) (kaṇmāy)

fuel reservoir

Belarusian: бак m (bak)
Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (my) (tuingki)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 箱 (zh) (xiāng), 罐 (zh) (guàn)
Czech: nádrž (cs) f
Danish: tank (da) c (vehicle)
Dutch: tank (nl) m
Finnish: polttoainesäiliö (fi), polttoainetankki, tankki (fi)
French: réservoir (fr) m, citerne (fr) f
German: Tank (de) m
Greek: δεξαμενή (el) f (dexamení)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: टंकी (hi) f (ṭaṅkī)
Hungarian: tank (hu), tartály (hu), üzemanyagtartály (hu)
Italian: cisterna (it) f, serbatoio (it) m
Japanese: タンク (ja) (tanku), 油槽 (ゆそう, yusō), 貯水槽 (ちょすいそう, chosuisō)
Korean: 탱크 (ko) (taengkeu)
Latvian: cisterna f
Macedonian: резервоа́р m (rezervoár), цистерна f (cisterna)
Marathi: टांकें n (ṭāṅkẽ)
Persian: باک‎ (fa) (bâk)
Polish: bak (pl) m, zbiornik (pl) m
Portuguese: tanque (pt) m
Russian: бак (ru) m (bak), резервуа́р (ru) m (rezervuár), цисте́рна (ru) f (cistɛ́rna)
Scottish Gaelic: amar m
Slovak: nádrž f
Telugu: చెరువు (te) (ceruvu)
Thai: ถัง (th) (tǎng)
Turkish: depo (tr), benzin deposu
Ukrainian: бак (uk) m (bak)
Uyghur: باك‎ (bak)
Uzbek: bak (uz)
Vietnamese: bể (vi), két (vi)

tankful — see tankful

armoured fighting vehicle

Afrikaans: tenk (af)
Albanian: tank (sq) m
Arabic: دَبَّابَة‎ f (dabbāba)
Armenian: տանկ (hy) (tank)
Azerbaijani: tank (az)
Bashkir: танк (tank)
Basque: gerra-gurdi
Belarusian: танк (be) m (tank)
Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭẏaṅkô)
Bulgarian: танк m (tank)
Burmese: တင့်ကား (my) (tang.ka:)
Catalan: tanc (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 坦克 (zh) (tǎnkè), 坦克車／坦克车 (zh) (tǎnkèchē), 戰車／战车 (zh) (zhànchē) (an armored vehicle, including tanks)
Min Nan: 坦克 (thán-khek), 鐵殼車／铁壳车, 铁壳车 (thih-khak-chhia)
Chuvash: танк (tank)
Czech: tank (cs) m
Danish: kampvogn (da) c, tank (da) c
Dutch: tank (nl) m
Dzongkha: དམག་འཁོར (dmag 'khor), ཏེངཀ (tengk)
Esperanto: tanko (eo)
Estonian: tank (et)
Faroese: stríðsvognur m
Finnish: panssarivaunu (fi); tankki (fi) (colloquial)
French: char de combat (fr) m, tank (fr) m, char d'assaut (fr) m
Galician: tanque (gl) m, carro de combate (gl) m
Georgian: ტანკი (ka) (ṭanḳi)
German: Panzer (de) m, Tank (de) m (obsolete)
Greek: άρμα μάχης (el) n (árma máchis)
Greenlandic: tanki
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: טַנְק‎ (he) m (tank)
Hindi: टैंक (hi) m (ṭaiṅk)
Hungarian: harckocsi (hu), tank (hu)
Icelandic: skriðdreki (is)
Ido: tanko (io)
Indonesian: tank (id)
Interlingua: tank
Italian: carro armato (it) m
Japanese: 戦車 (ja) (せんしゃ, sensha)
Kazakh: танк (tank)
Korean: 전차(戰車) (ko) (jeoncha), 탱크 (ko) (taengkeu), 땅크 (ko) (ttangkeu) (North Korea)
Kyrgyz: танк (ky) (tank)
Lao: ລົດຖັງ (lot thang), ຖັງ (thang)
Latin: autocurrus armatus m
Latvian: tanks m
Lithuanian: tankas m
Luxembourgish: Panzer
Macedonian: тенк m (tenk)
Malay: kereta kebal (ms), tank
Maltese: tank m
Marathi: रणगाडा (raṇgāḍā)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: танк (mn) (tank)
Navajo: chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stridsvogn (no) m or f, tanks m
Nynorsk: stridsvogn f, tanks m
Persian: تانک‎ (fa) (tânk)
Polish: czołg (pl) m
Portuguese: carro de combate m, tanque (pt) m
Quechua: tanki
Romanian: tanc (ro) n
Romansch: tanc m
Russian: танк (ru) m (tank)
Samogitian: tanks
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: те̏нк m
Roman: tȅnk (sh) m
Silesian: čoug m
Slovak: tank (sk) m
Slovene: tank (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: tank m
Spanish: tanque (es) m, carro de combate m
Swahili: kifaru (sw)
Swedish: stridsvagn (sv) c, pansarvagn (sv) c
Tajik: тонк (tonk)
Tamil: கவச தாங்கி (kavaca tāṅki)
Thai: รถถัง (th) (rót-tǎng), แท้งค์, รถเกราะ, รถรบ
Turkish: tank (tr)
Turkmen: tank
Ukrainian: танк m (tank)
Urdu: ٹینک‎ (ur) (ṭaink)
Uyghur: تانكا‎ (tanka)
Uzbek: tank (uz)
Vietnamese: xe tăng (vi)
Volapük: bländ
Walloon: tank (wa) m
Yakut: тааҥка (taaŋka)
Yiddish: טאַנק‎ m (tank)

reservoir or dam — see reservoir,‎ dam

large metal container for water

Bulgarian: цисте́рна f (cistérna)
Finnish: vesisäiliö
Hungarian: tartály (hu), víztartály (hu)

small pond in an animal pen

Hungarian: tócsa (hu)

muscular and physically imposing person

Finnish: lihaskimppu (fi)
Galician: tanque (gl) m
Hungarian: melák
Italian: energumeno (it)
Spanish: tanque (es) m
Swedish: muskelknutte

role playing character

Finnish: tankki (fi)
Hungarian: tank (hu)
Icelandic: tank m
Russian: танк (ru) m (tank)
Swedish: tank (sv)

Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, ISSN 1054-4836, page 112:
  He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
- 2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:
  "[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
(video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
(transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- 1913, Geoffrey Martin, Industrial and manufacturing chemistry:
  Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- 2006 March 6, Farber, Michael, “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 4 November 2012, retrieved February 5, 2011:
  Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
(fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- 2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin)‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:
  Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
- 2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:
  A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
- 2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:
  Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.
(poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.

Derived terms

tank up

Translations

to fail or fall

Bulgarian: спадам (bg) (spadam)
French: dégringoler (fr)

video games: to attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat

Portuguese: tankar (pt)
Spanish: tanquear

to put into a tank

German: tanken (de)
Spanish: tanquear

to deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.

to resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.

Noun

tank (plural tanks)

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls[1].

References

1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

(Singapore, informal) To stand; to tolerate.

Related terms

buay tank

Anagrams

Kant

Alemannic German

Interjection

tank

(Gressoney) thank you

Synonyms

dankche
fergälts Got
merci
vrattrus Got
wol vergelzgott

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Internationalism. From English tank, from Portuguese tanque, from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī), from Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), ultimately from Sanskrit तडग (taḍaga, “pond”).

Noun

tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)

tank

Declension

Declension of tank
	singular	plural
nominative	tank	tanklar
definite accusative	tankı	tankları
dative	tanka	tanklara
locative	tankda	tanklarda
ablative	tankdan	tanklardan
definite genitive	tankın	tankların

Possessive forms of tank
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankım	tanklarım
sənin (“your”)	tankın	tankların
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankı	tankları
bizim (“our”)	tankımız	tanklarımız
sizin (“your”)	tankınız	tanklarınız
onların (“their”)	tankı or tankları	tankları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankımı	tanklarımı
sənin (“your”)	tankını	tanklarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankını	tanklarını
bizim (“our”)	tankımızı	tanklarımızı
sizin (“your”)	tankınızı	tanklarınızı
onların (“their”)	tankını or tanklarını	tanklarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankıma	tanklarıma
sənin (“your”)	tankına	tanklarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankına	tanklarına
bizim (“our”)	tankımıza	tanklarımıza
sizin (“your”)	tankınıza	tanklarınıza
onların (“their”)	tankına or tanklarına	tanklarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankımda	tanklarımda
sənin (“your”)	tankında	tanklarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankında	tanklarında
bizim (“our”)	tankımızda	tanklarımızda
sizin (“your”)	tankınızda	tanklarınızda
onların (“their”)	tankında or tanklarında	tanklarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankımdan	tanklarımdan
sənin (“your”)	tankından	tanklarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankından	tanklarından
bizim (“our”)	tankımızdan	tanklarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	tankınızdan	tanklarınızdan
onların (“their”)	tankından or tanklarından	tanklarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tankımın	tanklarımın
sənin (“your”)	tankının	tanklarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	tankının	tanklarının
bizim (“our”)	tankımızın	tanklarımızın
sizin (“your”)	tankınızın	tanklarınızın
onların (“their”)	tankının or tanklarının	tanklarının

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtaŋk]
Rhymes: -aŋk

Noun

tank m

tank, armor

Declension

Declension of tank

	singular	plural
nominative	tank	tanky
genitive	tanku	tanků
dative	tanku	tankům
accusative	tank	tanky
vocative	tanku	tanky
locative	tanku	tancích
instrumental	tankem	tanky

Derived terms

tankový

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tanˀk/, [ˈtˢɑŋˀɡ̊]

Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanke)

tank (for storage)
Synonym: beholder
(informal) filling station, gas station (US), petrol station (UK), service station
Synonym: tankstation

Inflection

Declension of tank

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tank	tanken	tanke	tankene
genitive	tanks	tankens	tankes	tankenes

References

“tank,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tank (but later than the previous word).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taːnk/, [ˈtˢæːŋɡ̊]

Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanks)

tank (military fighting vehicle)
Synonym: kampvogn

Inflection

Declension of tank

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tank	tanken	tanks	tanksene
genitive	tanks	tankens	tanks'	tanksenes

References

“tank,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tanˀk/, [ˈtˢɑŋˀɡ̊]

Verb

tank

imperative of tanke

Dutch

Pronunciation

(Belgium) IPA^(key): /tɑŋk/
(Netherlands) IPA^(key): /tɛŋk/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: tank
(Belgium) Rhymes: -ɑŋk
(Netherlands) Rhymes: -ɛŋk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje n)

tank (military armoured fighting vehicle with tracks)
Synonym: vechtwagen
tank (storage reservoir)

Derived terms

antitankmijn
gevechtstank
mannelijke tank
tankmijn
tanktoren
tankval
vrouwelijke tank

Descendants

→ Aukan: tenki
→ Caribbean Javanese: tèng

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tank

first-person singular present indicative of tanken
imperative of tanken

Anagrams

kant

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɑ̃k/, (Quebec) /taŋk/
Audio (file)

Noun

tank m (plural tanks)

tank (military vehicle)
Synonyms: char, char d'assaut, char de combat
(Canada) tank (container)
Synonym: réservoir

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taŋk/
Rhymes: -aŋk

Verb

tank

singular imperative of tanken
(colloquial) first-person singular present of tanken

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɒŋk]
Hyphenation: tank
Rhymes: -ɒŋk

Noun

tank (plural tankok)

tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
tank, fuel tank (the fuel reservoir of a vehicle)
Synonym: üzemanyagtartály
(military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)
Synonyms: harckocsi, páncélkocsi, páncélos
(photography) developing tank (a closed container used for developing film in a daylight environment)
Synonym: előhívó tank

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tank	tankok
accusative	tankot	tankokat
dative	tanknak	tankoknak
instrumental	tankkal	tankokkal
causal-final	tankért	tankokért
translative	tankká	tankokká
terminative	tankig	tankokig
essive-formal	tankként	tankokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tankban	tankokban
superessive	tankon	tankokon
adessive	tanknál	tankoknál
illative	tankba	tankokba
sublative	tankra	tankokra
allative	tankhoz	tankokhoz
elative	tankból	tankokból
delative	tankról	tankokról
ablative	tanktól	tankoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tanké	tankoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tankéi	tankokéi

Possessive forms of tank
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tankom	tankjaim
2nd person sing.	tankod	tankjaid
3rd person sing.	tankja	tankjai
1st person plural	tankunk	tankjaink
2nd person plural	tankotok	tankjaitok
3rd person plural	tankjuk	tankjaik

Derived terms

tankol
tankos

Compound words

tankcsapda
tankcsata
tankoszlop
tanktámadás

References

Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch tank, from English tank, from Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), from Sanskrit तडग (taḍaga, “pond”). Doublet of tangki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋk/, /ˈtaŋ/
Hyphenation: tank
Homophone: tang (in second pronunciation)

Noun

tank (first-person possessive tankku, second-person possessive tankmu, third-person possessive tanknya)

tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

Alternative forms

tang
teng

Synonyms

kereta kebal (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tank.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnk/, /ˈtank/[1]
Rhymes: -ɛnk, -ank
Hyphenation: tànk

Noun

tank m (invariable)

tank (military and container)

References

tank in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

a tank (container, as below)
(military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)
Synonym: stridsvogn

Derived terms

bensintank
drivstofftank
fisketank
lastetank
septiktank
tankbåt
tankskip
tenketank
vanntank

References

“tank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

kant

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tank/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

a tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
(military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) ((pre-2005) alternative form of tanks)
Synonym: stridsvogn

Derived terms

bensintank
drivstofftank
fisketank
lastetank
septiktank
tankbåt
tankskip

Verb

tank

imperative of tanka

References

“tank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

kant

Swedish

tank

Noun

tank c

tank (container for liquids)

Declension

Declension of tank
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tank	tanken	tankar	tankarna
Genitive	tanks	tankens	tankars	tankarnas

Related terms

bensintank
flyttank
mjölktank
tanka
tankbil
tanker
tankfartyg
tankvagn

Anagrams

kant

Turkish

Etymology

From English tank.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑŋk/
Rhymes: -ɑŋk

Noun

tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)

tank

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

tank

Definite accusative

tankı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

tank

tanklar

Definite accusative

tankı

tankları

Dative

tanka

tanklara

Locative

tankta

tanklarda

Ablative

tanktan

tanklardan

Genitive

tankın

tankların

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankım	tanklarım
2nd singular	tankın	tankların
3rd singular	tankı	tankları
1st plural	tankımız	tanklarımız
2nd plural	tankınız	tanklarınız
3rd plural	tankları	tankları
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankımı	tanklarımı
2nd singular	tankını	tanklarını
3rd singular	tankını	tanklarını
1st plural	tankımızı	tanklarımızı
2nd plural	tankınızı	tanklarınızı
3rd plural	tanklarını	tanklarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankıma	tanklarıma
2nd singular	tankına	tanklarına
3rd singular	tankına	tanklarına
1st plural	tankımıza	tanklarımıza
2nd plural	tankınıza	tanklarınıza
3rd plural	tanklarına	tanklarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankımda	tanklarımda
2nd singular	tankında	tanklarında
3rd singular	tankında	tanklarında
1st plural	tankımızda	tanklarımızda
2nd plural	tankınızda	tanklarınızda
3rd plural	tanklarında	tanklarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankımdan	tanklarımdan
2nd singular	tankından	tanklarından
3rd singular	tankından	tanklarından
1st plural	tankımızdan	tanklarımızdan
2nd plural	tankınızdan	tanklarınızdan
3rd plural	tanklarından	tanklarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	tankımın	tanklarımın
2nd singular	tankının	tanklarının
3rd singular	tankının	tanklarının
1st plural	tankımızın	tanklarımızın
2nd plural	tankınızın	tanklarınızın
3rd plural	tanklarının	tanklarının

[1] 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

[2] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

[3] tank in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

tank

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

References

Etymology 3

Verb

Related terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Interjection

Synonyms

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

References

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

References

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Verb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology