tanka
See also: tanke, tenke, Tanka, tankā, tänka, tænke, and тәңкә
English
Etymology 1
From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese 短 (MC tuɑnX) 歌 (MC kɑ) (compare Mandarin 短歌 duǎngē).
Noun
tanka (plural tankas or tanka)
- 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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Translations
a Japanese verse
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Etymology 2
See thangka.
Noun
tanka (plural tankas)
- 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.
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Etymology 3
See Tanka.
Noun
tanka (plural tankas)
- 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.
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- 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 ;
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Etymology 4
Ultimately from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “chisel; tanka”).
Noun
tanka (plural tankas)
- (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, p. 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 2013, p. 42:
- The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
- 2011, Najaf Haider, in Irfan Habib (Ed.), 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.
- 1994, Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, p. 29:
Related terms
- taka
Anagrams
- kanat
Finnish
Etymology
From Japanese 短歌 (tanka).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋkɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑŋkɑ]
- Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑ
- Syllabification(key): tan‧ka
Noun
tanka
- tanka (Japanese verse)
Declension
Inflection of tanka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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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 tankainrare | |
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 | |
instructive | — | tankoin | |
abessive | tankatta | tankoitta | |
comitative | — | tankoineen |
Possessive forms of tanka (type kala) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | tankani | tankamme |
2nd person | tankasi | tankanne |
3rd person | tankansa |
Anagrams
- ankat, kanat, kanta, katan, takan
Japanese
Romanization
tanka
- Rōmaji transcription of たんか
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- tanket
Verb
tanka
- inflection of tanke:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- tanke
Etymology
From English tank.
Verb
tanka (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanka/tank)
- tank (put fuel into a tank)
References
- “tanka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
tanka
- inflection of tanak:
- feminine nominative/vocative singular
- indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
- indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Swedish
Noun
tanka c
- (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.
- ... på Månan, och har gifvit anledning till den oriktiga tankan att där finnas eldsprutande berg.
Declension
Declension of tanka | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | tanka | tankan | — | — |
Genitive | tankas | tankans | — | — |
Verb
tanka (present tankar, preterite tankade, supine tankat, imperative tanka)
- to refuel; to fill a tank with fuel
- (slang) to drink large quantities of alcohol; to booze
- (computing, slang) to download large quantities of data
Conjugation
Conjugation of tanka (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | tanka | tankas | ||
Supine | tankat | tankats | ||
Imperative | tanka | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | tanken | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | tankar | tankade | tankas | tankades |
Ind. plural1 | tanka | tankade | tankas | tankades |
Subjunctive2 | tanke | tankade | tankes | tankades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | tankande | |||
Past participle | tankad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Related terms
- tanka ner
- tanka upp
- tankning
Anagrams
- kanat, kanta