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Tania¹

Where it comes from

From Russian. See Tanya.

proper noun Tanya · Taniya

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana and Tetyana. "Does she? What a name that child has got. Tania." "That's not so odd a name," Hazel said. "Not nowadays." "I know. They all have outlandish international names, like Tania and Natasha and Erin and Solange and Carmen. No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They

tania²

Where it comes from

From Tupian.

noun tannier · tanier · tannia · tanya

  1. rare New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium). Most research on Colocasia esculenta has been done on taro (C. esculenta var. esculenta), which is grown in Hawaii, the Pacific islands and the Philippines, where it is an important staple food. Assumptions about the development of eddoe have to be based on extrapolations from taro, which belongs to
  2. rare Taro.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: tanya, rose, cheap, tatiana, tana, tash, taniya, tonia, tasha, tonya, tandy, tiannia, toni, tiana, tanika, tina

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name female given name

EspañolTania
日本語ターニャ Tānya
中文塔尼婭 /塔尼娅 Tǎníyà, 塔妮婭 /塔妮娅 Tǎnīyà
PortuguêsTânia
FrançaisTania
DeutschTanja
ΕλληνικάΤάνια Tánia
РусскийТа́ня Tánja, Татья́на Tatʹjána

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@misc{tania_2026,
  title = {tania},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tania},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}