thana
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi, originally from Sanskrit स्थान (sthāna) "military outpost"
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Noun
thana (plural thanas)
- An Indian military outpost.
- (India) A police station, or a police jurisdiction.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
- To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.
- 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 70:
- Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
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thana
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- Low German: den
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Noun
thana m
- the breast of a woman
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