"Tanis" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈteɪnɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Tanis. Etymology templates: {{wp}}, {{bor+|en|la|Tanis}} Borrowed from Latin Tanis Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tanis
  1. A historical city in Egypt, situated on the delta of the Nile. Categories (place): Places in Egypt Translations (Translations): Τάνις (Tánis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ḏꜥnt (Egyptian), Tanis (Galician), צֹעַן (tzó'an) (Hebrew), Tanis [feminine] (Latin)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|proper noun form}} Tanis
  1. plural of Tani Tags: form-of, plural Form of: Tani
    Sense id: en-Tanis-en-name-dW4zAGCd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Proper name [Latin]

Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τάνις (Tánis), itself from Egyptian D:a-n:t*Z5-mw-N36:N23-niwt (ḏꜥnt). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Τάνις}} Ancient Greek Τάνις (Tánis), {{egy-h|D:a-n:t*Z5-mw-N36:N23-niwt}} D:a-n:t*Z5-mw-N36:N23-niwt, {{der|la|egy|ḏꜥnt|<hiero>D:a-n:t*Z5-mw-N36:N23-niwt</hiero>|tr=ḏꜥnt}} Egyptian D:a-n:t*Z5-mw-N36:N23-niwt (ḏꜥnt) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Tanis<3.loc>|g=f}} Tanis f sg (genitive Tanis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Tanis<3.loc>}} Forms: Tanis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Tanis [nominative, singular], Tanis [genitive, singular], Tanī [dative, singular], Tanem [accusative, singular], Tane [ablative, singular], Tanis [singular, vocative], Tanī [locative, singular], Tane [locative, singular]
  1. Tanis (a historical city in Egypt) Tags: declension-3, feminine, singular Categories (place): Places in Egypt Derived forms: Tanītes, Tanīticus
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.