# patana
## English
### Alternative forms

* patina, patena

### Etymology

From Sanskrit पतन (patana). The spellings patina and patena are probably by conflation.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpætənə/

### Noun

patana (plural patanas)
* A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
** 1990, P. J. Skerman, F. Riveros, Tropical Grasses, →ISBN, page 19:A considerable area of the jungle vegetation (rain forest) of the montane zone has been destroyed and is now either tea plantation or native patana grassland.

### Further reading

* “patena”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “patana, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Finnish
### Noun

patana
* essive singular of pata

### Anagrams

* napata, pantaa, pataan, tapaan, tapana

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

patana f (plural patanas)
* (Solanum tuberosum L.) potato

#### Synonyms

* [1]: bocinhòla, entrefega, perilha, tartifla, tartifle, trufa, tufèra, tura

### References

* ↑ Gui Benoèt (2008) Las plantas, Toulouse: IEO Edicions, →ISBN, p. 313.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈtana/ [paˈt̪a.na]
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: pa‧ta‧na

### Noun

patana f (plural patanas)
* (Dominican Republic) tractor-trailer

### Further reading

* “patán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-patana (infinitive kupatana)
* Reciprocal form of -pata: to agree, reconcile

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -patana :
| Positive present | -napatana |
| Subjunctive | -patane |
| Negative | -patani |
| Imperative singular | patana |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupatana |
| Negative | kutopatana |
Imperatives :
| Singular | patana |
| Plural | pataneni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupatana |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipatana |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupatana |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapatana |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapatana |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipatane |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepatana |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepatana |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipatana |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipatana |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepatana |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapatana |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japatana |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipatana |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopatana |
| Consecutive | kapatana / positive subject concord + -kapatana |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapatane |
| Object concord | — |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -patania
** Causative: -patanisha
** Stative: -patanika
* Nominal derivations:
** mapatano