Tanna

== Translingual == === Etymology 1 === Coined by English entomologist William Lucas Distant in 1905. Further etymology unknown. ==== Proper noun ==== Tanna f A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – cicadas of Asia. === Etymology 2 === From English Tanna (“island of Vanuatu”). ==== Proper noun ==== Tanna f (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Salticidae – certain jumping spiders, renamed in 2006 to Araneotanna. === References === Tanna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Tanna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Tanna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == English == === Etymology 1 === Named by British explorer James Cook in 1774, said to be from Kwamera tana (“earth”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəq (“earth, soil”). ==== Proper noun ==== Tanna An island of Tafea, Vanuatu. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === From Hebrew תַּנָּא (tannā), from Aramaic. ==== Alternative forms ==== Tana ==== Noun ==== Tanna (plural Tannas or Tannaim) Any of the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishna, from approximately 10–220 CE. ===== Derived terms ===== === Anagrams === annat