tany

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtaɲ]

Noun

tany m (plural tanys)

1. (botany) sprout

   Synonym: rebrot

2. (botany) sucker (sprout growing from the base of a tree)

Related terms

• taní

Further reading

• “tany”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tany”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “tany” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tany”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Malagasy

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəq. Compare Malay tanah, Chamorro tano'.

Noun

tany

1. earth, soil, land
2. country, nation

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

Noun

tany

1. lament, weeping, tears

Further reading

• tany in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org