"tanka" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tankas [plural], tanka [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese 短 (MC twanX) 歌 (MC ka) (compare Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) duǎngē). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ja|短歌||short song|tr=tanka}} Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), {{der|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|短||short}} 短 (MC twanX), {{ltc-l|歌||song}} 歌 (MC ka), {{cog|cmn|短歌}} Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|tanka}} tanka (plural tankas or tanka)
  1. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae. Translations (a Japanese verse): 短歌 (duǎngē) (Chinese Mandarin), tanka (Estonian), tanka (Finnish), 短歌 (tanka) (Japanese), 단카 (Danka) (Korean), та́нка (tánka) [feminine] (Russian)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: tankas [plural]
Etymology: See thangka. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tanka (plural tankas)
  1. Alternative form of thangka (“Tibetan religious artwork”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: thangka (extra: Tibetan religious artwork)
    Sense id: en-tanka-en-noun-JXee9CWE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: tankas [plural]
Etymology: See Tanka. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tanka (plural tankas)
  1. Alternative form of Tanka (“ethnic group of boat people living in China”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Tanka (extra: ethnic group of boat people living in China)
    Sense id: en-tanka-en-noun-0DZB0yM5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 25 33 2 25
  2. A kind of boat used in Guangdong, about 25 feet long and often rowed by Tanka women; junk.
    Sense id: en-tanka-en-noun-kKs5tiNH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

Forms: tankas [plural]
Etymology: Ultimately from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “chisel; tanka”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|sa|टङ्क||chisel; tanka}} Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “chisel; tanka”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tanka (plural tankas)
  1. (historical) A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia. Tags: historical Synonyms: taka, tucka
    Sense id: en-tanka-en-noun-EpMF3-bV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1997, Anne Maiden Brown, Edie Farwell, Dickey Nyerongsha, The Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood, page 8:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1835, The Chinese Repository, page 392:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1845, Miscellaneous Remarks Upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trades, Manners, and Customs of the Chinese:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1866, William Ainsworth, All Around the World:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:",
          "text": "The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.",
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          "ref": "2011, Najaf Haider, edited by Irfan Habib, Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500, Vol. VIII part 1, p. 152:",
          "text": "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.",
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