tanque
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Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: tan‧que
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern, underwater water reservour”), from Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), ultimately from Sanskrit तडाग (taḍāga, “pond”).[1]
Noun[edit]
tanque m (plural tanques)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Bengali: টাংকি (ṭaṅki)
- → English: tank (see there for further descendants)
- → Malay: tangki
- → Spanish: tanque
Etymology 2[edit]
Reborrowed from English tank (“tank vehicle”), from Portuguese tanque. Tanks were originally disguised as moving water tanks.
Noun[edit]
tanque m (plural tanques)
- tank (vehicle)
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tank”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese tanque (“tank”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tanque m (plural tanques)
- tank (military vehicle)
- tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
- large glass (for drinking)
- tank (a very muscular and physically imposing person)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tanque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Gujarati
- Portuguese terms derived from Gujarati
- Portuguese terms derived from Marathi
- Portuguese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms borrowed back into Portuguese
- pt:Military vehicles
- pt:Weapons
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Portuguese
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/anke
- Rhymes:Spanish/anke/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns