tanya

See also: Tanya

English

Noun

tanya

1. Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”)

Anagrams

• Tanay, Yanta, natya

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Noun

tanya (plural tanyák)

1. detached farm (-stead)
2. nest, abode, haunt, den (dwelling place)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tanya	tanyák
accusative	tanyát	tanyákat
dative	tanyának	tanyáknak
instrumental	tanyával	tanyákkal
causal-final	tanyáért	tanyákért
translative	tanyává	tanyákká
terminative	tanyáig	tanyákig
essive-formal	tanyaként	tanyákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tanyában	tanyákban
superessive	tanyán	tanyákon
adessive	tanyánál	tanyáknál
illative	tanyába	tanyákba
sublative	tanyára	tanyákra
allative	tanyához	tanyákhoz
elative	tanyából	tanyákból
delative	tanyáról	tanyákról
ablative	tanyától	tanyáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tanyáé	tanyáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tanyáéi	tanyákéi

Possessive forms of tanya
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tanyám	tanyáim
2nd person sing.	tanyád	tanyáid
3rd person sing.	tanyája	tanyái
1st person plural	tanyánk	tanyáink
2nd person plural	tanyátok	tanyáitok
3rd person plural	tanyájuk	tanyáik

Derived terms

• bagolytanya
• laktanya
• nyomortanya

 

References

1. tanya in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

• tanya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɲa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɲa, -ɲa, -a

Noun

tanya (first-person possessive tanyaku, second-person possessive tanyamu, third-person possessive tanyanya)

1. question

Derived terms

• bertanya (“to ask”)
• menanyai (“to question”)
• pertanyaan (“question”, noun)

Malay

Alternative forms

• tnya (SMS slang)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *taɲaʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utaña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɲa/
• Rhymes: -aɲa, -a
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [täɲə]

Verb

tanya (Jawi spelling تاڽ)

1. to ask.

   Synonym: soal

   Apakah yang Foong tanya Cikgu Ali?

   What did Foong ask Mr. Ali?

Derived terms

• bertanya
• ditanya
• menanya
• menanyakan
• penanya
• pertanyaan
• tanya jawab
• tertanya-tanya

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: tanya

Further reading

• “tanya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *utaña