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Tania

proper nounattested in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.

    "Does she? What a name that child has got. Tania." "That's not so odd a name," Hazel said. "Not nowadays." "I know. They all have outlandish international names, like Tania and Natasha and Erin and Solange and Carmen. No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers."

Etymology

From Russian. See Tanya.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).