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tanna

[ Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah ]

noun

, (often initial capital letter)
, plural tan·na·im [tah-nah-, eem, tah-, nah, -im].
  1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.


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Other Words From

  • tan·na·i·tic [tah-n, uh, -, it, -ik], adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tanna1

First recorded in 1725–30; < Hebrew tannā “teacher,” from Aramaic tĕnā “to repeat, learn, teach”

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Example Sentences

The intrusive lens at the tennis court belonged to an enterprising 30-year-old pap, Niraj Tanna of Ikon Pictures.

And who should have turned up but Niraj Tanna, who took a picture.

I am told he pushed Kate to put the fear of God into the already weakened paparazzi by suing Tanna, the photographer, personally.

In his pictures, the whisperers note, she is always smiling, and Tanna seems to have a refined knowledge of where she will be.

So severe are the legal threats against Tanna he has put a virtual moratorium on his royal pictures.

Tanna has an active volcano, now smoking away, and is like a hot-bed, wonderfully fertile.

Thermometer 81; Tanna and Erromango, with their rugged hilly outlines, breaking the line of the bright sparkling horizon.

On the contrary, they much resemble many of the inhabitants whom I have seen at the islands Tanna and Mallicolla.

The success of his project for preventing the fouling of the passage at Tanna Fort was more than ever doubtful.

The question now was, how to prevent the men in charge of the vessels and the authorities in Tanna Fort from becoming suspicious.

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