तान

See also: ताना, तन, तीन, तनु, तनू, तन्, and तानि

Hindi

FWOTD – 24 March 2023

From the stem of तानना (tānnā, “to pull”). Likely also conflated with the borrowing of Sanskrit तान (tā́na).

तान • (tān) m (Urdu spelling تان)

(Hindustani classical music) taan: a kind of singing technique
(music) tone; sound, note
- 2017 October 14, “फ्रेशर्स पार्टी में पाश्चात्य संगीत के साथ देशी तड़के पर झूमे एमबीबीएस छात्र [phreśars pārṭī mẽ pāścātya saṅgīt ke sāth deśī taṛke par jhūme embībīes chātra, At the Fresher's Party MBBS students dance to Western music with a Desi twist]”, in Hindustan‎, Kanpur:
  गाने की तान छेड़ी तो सीटियों से उनका स्वागत हुआ।
  gāne kī tān cheṛī to sīṭiyõ se unkā svāgat huā.
  When he finally ended the note of the song he was greeted with whistling.
stretching; tension, tautness
Synonym: खिंचाव (khiñcāv)

Declension of तान (masc cons-stem)

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 447

तान • (tān) f (Latin script tan, Kannada script ತಾನ್)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *tā́nas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́nas, from Proto-Indo-European *tónos, from *ten- (“to stretch, extend”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos), Ossetian тӕн (tæn). Compare also English tone, a Latin borrowing, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

तान • (tā́na) stem, m

Masculine a-stem declension of तान (tā́na)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	तानः tā́naḥ	तानौ / ताना¹ tā́nau / tā́nā¹	तानाः / तानासः¹ tā́nāḥ / tā́nāsaḥ¹
Vocative	तान tā́na	तानौ / ताना¹ tā́nau / tā́nā¹	तानाः / तानासः¹ tā́nāḥ / tā́nāsaḥ¹
Accusative	तानम् tā́nam	तानौ / ताना¹ tā́nau / tā́nā¹	तानान् tā́nān
Instrumental	तानेन tā́nena	तानाभ्याम् tā́nābhyām	तानैः / तानेभिः¹ tā́naiḥ / tā́nebhiḥ¹
Dative	तानाय tā́nāya	तानाभ्याम् tā́nābhyām	तानेभ्यः tā́nebhyaḥ
Ablative	तानात् tā́nāt	तानाभ्याम् tā́nābhyām	तानेभ्यः tā́nebhyaḥ
Genitive	तानस्य tā́nasya	तानयोः tā́nayoḥ	तानानाम् tā́nānām
Locative	ताने tā́ne	तानयोः tā́nayoḥ	तानेषु tā́neṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Monier Williams (1899) “तान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 442/2.

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