As a Hindi name
तान · noun · feminine
तालने का भाव या क्रिया । खींच । फैलाव । विस्तार । जैसे, भौंऔं की तान · गानै का एक अंग । अनुलोभ विलोम गति से गमन । मुर्च्छना आदि द्वारा राग या स्वर का विस्तार । अनेक विभाग करके सूर का खींचना । लय का विस्ता । आलाप — Śabdasāgara
तान · tān · s.f.
A tone; a tune; the key-note (in music) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 307
तान · tān · s.f.
The plant Verbena (or Zepania) nodiflora — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 307
तान · masculine
taan: a kind of singing technique; tone; sound, note; stretching; tension, tautness
Cited formation "तान" is त + -आन: त means "the sixteenth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आन forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(9) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "तान" is तना + -आन: तना means "trunk", and the suffix -आन forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(9) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi तान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“From the stem of तानना (tānnā, “to pull”). Likely also conflated with the borrowing of Sanskrit तान (tā́na).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
tāna m. (√ 3. tan) a fibre, Suśr. i, 25
a tone, MBh. ii, 133 and 391; xiii, 3888; Kum. i, 8
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
an object of sense (or = tātparya), (cf. eka-)
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Dictionary citations
tāna m. (√ 3. tan) a fibre, Suśr. i, 25
a tone, MBh. ii, 133 and 391; xiii, 3888; Kum. i, 8
a monotonous tone (in reciting, eka-śruti), KātyŚr. i, 8, 18; Vait.; Bhāṣik.; Nyāyam.; VPrāt., Sch.
an object of sense (or = tātparya), L. (cf. eka-)
[τόνος.]
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