tangi

Borrowed from Maori tangi (“lament, mourning, funeral ceremony”).

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌŋi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋi/

tangi (plural tangis or tangi)

1. (New Zealand) A Maori dirge, or song for the dead. [from 19th c.]
2. (New Zealand) Funeral rites; a funeral ceremony, a tangihanga. [from 19th c.]
   • 1906, The District Court and Magistrate's Court Reports:

     He goes on to say that the Government, The Maori Sanitary Councils, and the Native Land Court have endeavoured to prevent Maori tangis lasting for more than three or four days […] .

   • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 243:

     Late in the nineteenth century Māori women began to adopt the Victorian mourning costume of black clothes for tangi, and the practice continued long after Pākehā New Zealanders had dropped the custom.

3. (New Zealand) Crying, wailing, especially when seeing someone after a long absence. [from 19th c.]

• Giant, Ngāti, TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, giant, tagin, tiang, tinga

From Old Norse tangi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰauɲcɪ/
• Rhymes: -auɲcɪ

tangi m (genitive singular tanga, nominative plural tangar)

1. spit, narrow peninsula

   Synonym: nes

tangi

1. inflection of tangere:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• tigna, tinga

tangi

1. romanization of ꦠꦔꦶ

From Proto-Polynesian *taŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *taŋis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

tangi

1. (intransitive) to cry (to weep)

tangi

1. now
2. today

tangī

1. present passive infinitive of tangō

From Proto-Polynesian *taŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *taŋis (compare with Fijian tagi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis (compare with Malay tangis, Tagalog tangis), from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋi/, [ˈtɐŋi]

tangi

1. weeping, mourning, lament
2. sound
   • 2018, “Rū Ana Te Whenua”, performed by Alien Weaponry:

     Whakarongo mai ki te tangi o nga pū i runga i te taumata a Pukehinahina

     Listen to the sound of the guns on the hilltop of Pukehinahina

3. (music) pitch
4. intonation

tangi (passive tangihia)

1. (intransitive) to cry (to weep)
2. to sing, to make a sound

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tangi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 443
• “tangi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Germanic *tang-, related to *tangō (“pliers, tongs”).

tangi m (genitive tanga)

1. tang, cape (point of land)

• Icelandic: tangi
• Faroese: tangi
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tange; (dialectal) tangi, tångje
• Swedish: tånge, tång
• Danish: tange
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tange

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tangi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

tangi

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of tanger

From Proto-Polynesian *taŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *taŋis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

tangi

1. cry; noise, sound
2. lament; a death chant

   I te patuanga o Malotini, watu loa lua ona mātutua i tona tangi.

   After the murder of Malotini, his parents composed a lament for him.

tangi

1. (intransitive) to cry (to weep)

   E wea koe e tangi ai?

   Why are you crying?

2. to call, make a sound (of an animal)

   Kē tangi te kāleva, kai tō te ua.

   When the cuckoo calls, it might rain.

• tangiwia (“to be mourned for, weep over”)
• tangitangi (“to cry a lot, weep”)
• wakatangi (“to play a musical instrument”)

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

From Proto-Polynesian *taŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *taŋis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

tangi

1. (intransitive) to cry (to weep)

• tenki

Borrowed from English tank.

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tangi class V (plural matangi class VI)

1. tank, reservoir (container)

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋiʔ/ [ˈt̪aː.ŋɪʔ] (“lone; different; special”, adjective; “(act of) taking exception; special regard; any kind of first-class rice”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aŋiʔ
  • IPA^(key): /taˈŋiʔ/ [t̪ɐˈŋɪʔ] (“not asking a favor to avoid giving a favor in return”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ngi

tangì (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅᜒ)

1. lone; only

   Synonyms: iisa, bugtong, nag-iisa, kaisa-isa

2. different

   Synonyms: iba, naiiba

3. special; particular; exceptional

tangì (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅᜒ)

1. act of taking exception

   Synonym: pagtatangi

2. special regard (for something)

   Synonym: pagtatangi

3. (Southern Tagalog, in general) any kind of first-class rice

tangî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅᜒ)

1. not asking the help or favor of anyone in order to avoid being asked for help or a favor (of a person)

• “tangi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• gitna, tinag, ingat, antig, ganti, ating, tinga

From Proto-Polynesian *taŋi, from Proto-Oceanic *taŋis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

tangi

1. (intransitive) to cry; to weep
2. (intransitive) to howl

• Churchward, C. Maxwell (1959) Tongan dictionary: Tongan-English and English-Tongan, →OCLC, pages 454-455

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋis, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋis.

• IPA^(key): /taŋi/

tangi

1. to cry

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.