tango

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See also tangò, tangó, and Tango

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

[edit] Etymology

Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (to dance)).

[edit] Noun

Tango (dance)

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

  1. A Latin American ballroom dance in 2/4 or 4/4 time.
  2. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
  3. (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
  4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
    tango colour:    

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tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

  1. To dance the tango.
  2. (slang) To handle, to flirt with, to deal with.

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tango n.

  1. tango (Latin American ballroom dance in 2/4 or 4/4 time)

[edit] Danish

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[edit] Etymology

From Spanish tango.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tanɡo/, [ˈtˢɑŋɡ̊o]

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tango c. (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

  1. tango

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[edit] Finnish

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  • IPA: [ˈt̪ɑŋːo̞]
  • Hyphenation: tan‧go

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tango

  1. tango

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[edit] French

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tango m. (plural tangos)

  1. tango (dance)

[edit] Italian

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tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

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tango m. (plural tanghi)

  1. tango

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

Might be from the Proto-Indo-European *dēg- (to grab?). Could be related to Proto-Germanic *tēkanan (to touch, grasp). Cf. Tocharian B tek-, tak- `touch', B teteka.

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present active tangō, present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetigī, supine tāctum.

  1. (transitive) I touch, grasp.
    Noli me tangere.
    Don't touch me.
  2. (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
  3. (transitive) I attain to.
  4. (transitive) I move, affect.
  5. (transitive) I come home to.

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA: /tânɡo/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧go

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tȁngo m. (Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)

  1. tango (dance)

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[edit] Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

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[edit] Noun

tango m. (plural tangos)

  1. tango (ballroom dance)
  2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

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[edit] Swahili

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tango

  1. cucumber
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