thana

• tana, tanna, tannah, thanna, thannah

Transliteration of Hindi थाना (thānā), from Sanskrit स्थान (sthāna, “military outpost”). Doublet of Thane.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː.nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.nə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐː.nə/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.na/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə
• Hyphenation: tha‧na
• Homophone: Thaana

thana (plural thanas)

1. An Indian military outpost.
2. (India) A police station, or a police jurisdiction.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387:

     To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.

   • 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 70:

     Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.

• thanadar

• “thana”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• tanha, Ahtna, tanah, athan, Atnah, Anath, Athan, tahan

thana

1. inflection of thanë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /θænæ/

thana

1. (areal noun) around the neck

Appears as tha- in some compounds.

• bedhana delgwyi (“surf scoter”)
• dhan ch'enadleyoyi (“semi-palmated plover”)
• -dhatoga' (“beard of a moose”)
• -endhoyet (“noose”)
• that'aɬ (“scarf”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 141

• thena

thana

1. accusative masculine singular of thē

• Low German: den

From Sanskrit स्तन (stana).

thana m

1. the breast of a woman

• IPA^(key): /t̪ana/

thana

1. they (third person plural subject pronoun)