Tania

See also: tania, tañía, Tânia, and tanią

English

Etymology

See Tanya.

Proper noun

Tania

1. A female given name from Russian.
   • 1990 Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth. →ISBN page 102:

     "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 pick the names. They're the mothers."

Usage notes

• Usually spelled Tania in the UK and Tanya in the US.

Translations

female given name

• Danish: Tanja
• Esperanto: Tanjo
• Finnish: Tanja (fi)
• French: Tania (fr)
• German: Tanja (de)
• Japanese: ターニャ (Tānya)
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• Norwegian: Tanja (no)
• Portuguese: Tânia
• Russian: Та́ня (ru) f (Tánja), Татья́на (ru) f (Tatʹjána) (non-diminutive)
• Spanish: Tania (es)
• Swedish: Tanja (sv)

Anagrams

• Anita, NAATI, Tai'an, Tiana

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.nja/

Proper noun

Tania f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tania

Anagrams

• Anita

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanja/ [ˈt̪a.nja]

Proper noun

Tania f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tania

Usage notes

• Popular in Cuba.