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tanna

[ Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah ]

noun

(often initial capital letter)
plural tannaim
  1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ٲ·Բ··پ [tah-n, uh, -, it, -ik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tanna1

First recorded in 1725–30; < Hebrew ٲԲ “teacher,” from Aramaic ĕ “to repeat, learn, teach”
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The group of women who founded Lijjat - Jaswantiben Jamnadas Poppat, Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani, Ujamben Narandas Kundalia, Banuben N Tanna, Laguben Amritlal Gokani, Jayaben V Vithalani and Diwaliben Lukka - were in their 20s and 30s, living in a crowded tenement in Mumbai and looking for ways to support their families.

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A panel made up of the station’s presenters Haroon Rashid, Nikita Kanda, Gagan Grewal and Nadia Ali, plus industry experts Asim Burney, Amrita Tanna, and Karan Pangali chose the shortlist.

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After one of the most intense cyclones in world history tore through the Pacific island of Tanna in Vanuatu, new research led by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa showed the resilience of the island's forests.

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In March 2015, Cyclone Pam touched down on the island of Tanna as the strongest Pacific island cyclone in history at the time.

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A new study published on February 29 in the journal Science of the Total Environment has documented the remarkable recovery of Tanna's forests after Cyclone Pam.

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