tanque

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.ki/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.ki/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.ke/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.kɨ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ki, -ɐ̃kɨ
• Hyphenation: tan‧que

Etymology 1

tanque (etymology 1 sense 3)

Borrowed from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern, underwater water reservour”). Etymology 1 sense 3 is a semantic loan from English tank (“armoured fighting vehicle”), see there for the sense development.

Noun

tanque m (plural tanques)

1. tank; cistern
2. a sink used for laundry

   Hypernym: pia

4. tank (military vehicle)

   Synonyms: carro de combate, tanque de guerra

Derived terms

• antitanque
• caminhão-tanque
• tanque de guerra
• tanqueiro
• tanqueta
• tanquinho
• tanquista

Related terms

• tankar

Descendants

• → Bengali: টাংকি (ṭaṅki)
• → English: tank (see there for further descendants)
• → Hunsrik: Dank
• → Malay: tangki
  • > Indonesian: tangki (inherited)
  • → Min Nan: 澢弆 / 𭰎弆 (tàng-kí)
  • → Tausug: tangki
• → Spanish: tanque
  • → Cebuano: tangke
  • → Tagalog: tangke
  • → Tausug: tangki

Etymology 2

Verb

tanque

1. inflection of tancar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tanque”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tanque”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “tanque”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “tanque”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese tanque (“tank”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanke/ [ˈt̪ãŋ.ke]
• Rhymes: -anke
• Syllabification: tan‧que

Noun

tanque m (plural tanques)

1. tank (military vehicle)
2. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
3. large glass (for drinking)
4. tank (a very muscular and physically imposing person)

Derived terms

• antitanque
• cazatanques
• tanque de gas
• tanque de pensamiento

Descendants

• → Cebuano: tangke
• → Tagalog: tangke
• → Tausug: tangki

Further reading

• “tanque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025