tanya

tanya

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

• Tanay, Yanta, natya

From a Slavic language.

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

tanya (plural tanyák)

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

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -aɲa, -ɲa, -a

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

1. question

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

• tnya (SMS slang)

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

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

tanya (Jawi spelling تاڽ‎)

1. to ask.

   Apakah yang Foong tanya Cikgu Ali?

   What did Foong ask Mr. Ali?

   Synonym: soal

• Indonesian: tanya

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