تنش

See also: تنس

Persian

Etymology

تن (tan, present stem of تنیدن (tanidan, “to weave (a spider's web), to twist”)) +‎ ـش (-eš).

It is not found with the current meaning in early 1900s dictionaries (Steingass, Dehkhoda, Hayyim). It might be a phono-semantic matching of French tension or some other European language.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.néʃ]

Readings
Iranian reading?	taneš

Noun

تنش • (taneš) (plural تنش‌ها (taneš-hâ))

1. tension
   • 2019, “مشاور رئیس جمهور فرانسه راهی تهران شد”, in خبرگزاری فارس‎^[1]:

     [...] «امانوئل بن» مشاور دیپلماتیک رئیس‌جمهور فرانسه در تلاش برای کاهش تنش، راهی تهران شده است.

     emânu'el bon mošâver-e diplomâtik-e ra'is-jomhur-e farânse dar talâš barâ-ye kâheš-e taneš, râhi tehrân šode ast.

     Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic advisor for the French president, traveled to Tehran in an effort to reduce tensions.

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تنش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تنش”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تنش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul