Tanna may refer to:
Places
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Tanna (island), an island in Vanuatu
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Tanna, Germany, a city in Thuringia
* Tanna, former name of city of
Thane
Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven talukas ...
in India
People
* Tanna, singular form of
tannaim
''Tannaim'' ( Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים , singular , ''Tanna'' "repeaters", "teachers") were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE. The period of the ''Tannaim'', also referred to as the Mis ...
, a Rabbinic sage recorded in the Mishna
* Tanna, a last name common among
Lohanas
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Christian Tanna
Christian Tanna is a Canadian drummer and music event organizer based in Peterborough, Ontario. He is best known for his work with the band I Mother Earth.
Early life
Tanna was born Christian Koshowski in Hamilton, Ontario. His family moved to Pe ...
, a member of the rock band I Mother Earth
* Dan Tanna, fictional character, in the TV series ''
Vega$'' (1978–1981)
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Jagori Tanna
Jagori Tanna (born ''Andrew Koshowski'', in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote almost all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced much of it as wel ...
, a member of the rock band I Mother Earth, brother of Christian
Other
* Tanna, an Old High German word meaning ''oak'' from which the word
tannin
Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.
The term ''tannin'' (from Anglo-Norman ''tanner'', ...
is derived
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''Tanna'' (film), a 2015 film set on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu
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Tanna languages
The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province ( Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu.
Languages
*Erromango family
**Southern: Sie, Sorung†
**Northern: Ifo ( ...
, a subgroup of the South Vanuatu languages
See also
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Tana (disambiguation)
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''Tanna'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas
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Tanna fruit dove
The Tanna fruit dove (''Ptilinopus tannensis'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Vanuatu.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest
Mon ...
, a bird endemic to Vanuatu
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Tanna ground dove
The Tanna ground dove (''Pampusana ferruginea''), also known as Forster's dove of Tanna, is an extinct dove species. Its taxonomic affiliation is uncertain but at its first scientific discussion by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 it was classified in ...
, an extinct bird endemic to Vanuatu
* ''Tanna ornatipes'', a genus of jumping spiders, synonym of ''
Araneotanna''
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