"Tank" meaning in German

See Tank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /taŋk/ Audio: De-Tank.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Rhymes: -aŋk Etymology: Borrowed from English tank. Etymology templates: {{ety|de|:bor|en:tank}}, {{bor+|de|en|tank}} Borrowed from English tank Head templates: {{de-noun|m,s:es􂀿rare􂁀,s:e􂀿very rare􂁀}} Tank m (strong, genitive Tanks or (rare) Tankes, plural Tanks or (very rare) Tanke) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,s:es􂀿rare􂁀,s:e􂀿rare􂁀}} Forms: Tanks [genitive], Tankes [genitive, rare], Tanks [plural], Tanke [plural, rare], strong [table-tags], Tank [nominative, singular], Tanks [definite, nominative, plural], Tanke [definite, nominative, plural, rare], Tanks [genitive, singular], Tankes [genitive, rare, singular], Tanks [definite, genitive, plural], Tanke [definite, genitive, plural, rare], Tank [dative, singular], Tanke [dative, rare, singular], Tanks [dative, definite, plural], Tanken [dative, definite, plural, rare], Tank [accusative, singular], Tanks [accusative, definite, plural], Tanke [accusative, definite, plural, rare]
  1. tank (container for liquids or gases) Tags: masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Tank-de-noun-OM1FG0AA
  2. (military, archaic) tank (armoured fighting vehicle) Tags: archaic, masculine, strong Synonyms: Panzer, Panzerkampfwagen
    Sense id: en-Tank-de-noun-rqpZsacw Categories (other): Military, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 37 44 5 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 34 40 5 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 44 5 15 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: Benzintank, Drucktank, Flüssiggastank, Gastank, Sauerstofftank (english: oxygen tank), Treibstofftank, Wassertank (english: water tank) Related terms: tanken, Tanke, Tanker

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (4d423fd and 9452535). 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.