# tank
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tæŋk/
** (æ-tensing) IPA: [ˈtʰeɪŋk]
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋk

### Etymology 1

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language such as Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

#### Noun

tank (plural tanks)
* A closed container for liquids or gases.
    The propane is stored in these tanks.
    The tank contains unfiltered water. You really shouldn't drink from that.
** 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
* An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
    The contractors installed a new tank with gorgeous fish and corals.
    The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.
* A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
** 1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back:The tanks are full and the grass is high.
* The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
    We have brought the van to a garage after we found a leak in the tank.
* The amount held by a container; a tankful.
    I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
* An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
    The journalist mistook the self-propelled artillery vehicle for a tank.
    Few remember the female tanks that were produced between the World Wars.
** 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day!
* (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
* (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
* (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
* (UK, slang, dated, by extension) A bouncer or doorman.
* (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
    The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.
* (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
    drunk tank
    The sheriff threw us in the tank without charges!
** 1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4:By the nature of imprisonment, one is perceived by free society as something subhuman. By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system.
** 1987, Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer (lyrics and music), “Fairytale of New York”, in If I Should Fall from Grace with God, performed by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl:It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, “Won't see another one”
* (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
* (rail transport) Short for tank engine and tank locomotive.
** 1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Longest Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 431–432:Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.
** 1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore.
* (clothing) Short for tank top.
** 1990 November 18, “Earl’s Reebok Sale for the Holidays”, in Granite City Press-Record Journal, volume 6, number 46, Granite City, Ill., →OCLC, page 8A:T-BACK COTTON TANK
** 2008, Nora Roberts, Tribute, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 206:It pleased her more than she could say to know she walked on her own land, over dewed grass, wearing a tank and cotton pajama pants.
** 2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Minneapolis, Minn.: Broadleaf Books, 1517 Media, →ISBN:I was wearing a tank and some cotton pants.
** 2023 August 9, Brooke Kato, “Gen Z loves the ‘wife beater’ tee — but they’re canceling the name”, in New York Post‎, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-10:On TikTok, #wifepleaser boasts more than 11.4 million views, while #wifepleasertank has racked up 13.9 million. […] Thanks to TikTok, there has been a mass adoption of the term “wife pleaser” in an attempt to rebrand the tank.

##### Synonyms

* (military fighting vehicle): battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “gaming”): glass cannon

##### Hypernyms

* (military fighting vehicle): armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicle

##### Hyponyms

* (military fighting vehicle): infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), superheavy tank (historical), tankette (historical), bobbin tank (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flail tank, flame tank, flamethrower tank

##### Coordinate terms

* (military fighting vehicle): armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, SPG, tank destroyer, assault gun

##### Derived terms

* antitank
* anti-tank
* ballast tank
* battle tank
* bobbin tank
* built like a tank
* buoyancy tank
* cavalry tank
* combat tank
* cruiser tank
* dipping tank
* drop tank
* drunk tank
* dunk tank
* empty the tank
* expansion tank
* fast tank
* female tank
* fish tank
* flail tank
* flame tank
* flamethrower tank
* flotation tank
* gas tank
* gunbarrel tank
* heavy tank
* holding tank
* Imhoff tank
* infantry tank
* in the tank
* isolation tank
* landing craft tank
* leave nothing in the tank
* light tank
* main battle tank
* male tank
* medium tank
* oxygen tank
* Pachuca tank
* pannier tank
* peekaboo tank top
* petrol tank
* retention tank
* saddle tank, saddletank
* septic tank
* settlement tank
* side tank
* sugar in one's tank
* sump tank
* superheavy tank
* surge tank
* tankbuster
* tank car
* tank controls
* tank destroyer
* tank drama
* tank engine
* tanker
* tankette
* tank farm
* tankful
* tankini
* tank iron
* tank killer
* tanklike
* tank loaf
* tank locomotive
* tank park
* tankship
* tankside
* tank sinker
* tank-sinker
* tank slapper
* tank-slapper
* tank-stand
* tankstand, tank stand
* tank suit
* tank top
* tank town
* tank trap
* tank truck
* tank ventilator
* tank wagon
* tank-worm
* think tank
* tiger in one's tank
* Tissot tank
* touch tank
* tumbler tank
* water tank
* Yank tank

##### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: tenk
* → Albanian: tank
* → Gulf Arabic: تانْكي (tānki)
* → Armenian: տանկ (tank)
* → Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)
* → Asturian: tanque
* → Azerbaijani: tank
* → Bashkir: танк (tank)
* → Belarusian: танк (tank)
* → Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭêṅko)
* → Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)
* → Buryat: танк (tank)
* → Catalan: tanc
* → Chechen: танк (tank)
* → Chinese:
** Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)
* → Chuvash: танк (tank)
* → Czech: tank
* → Danish: tank
* → Dutch: tank
* → Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)
* → Eastern Mari: танк (tank)
* → Estonian: tank
* → Fiji Hindi: tanki
* → Finnish: tankki
* → French: tank
* → Galician: tanque
* → Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)
* → German: Tank
* → Greek: τανκ (tank)
* → Greenlandic: tanki
* → Hebrew: טנק (tank)
* → Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
** → Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)
* → Hungarian: tank
* → Indonesian: tank
* → Italian: tank, tanca
* → Japanese: タンク (tanku)
* → Kazakh: танк (tank)
* → Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)
* → Kumyk: танк (tank)
* → Kyrgyz: танк (tank)
* → Lao: ຖັງ (thang)
* → Latvian: tanks
* → Lezgi: танк (tank)
* → Lithuanian: tankas
* → Macedonian: тенк (tenk)
* → Malay: tank
* → Maori: taika
* → Norwegian: tank, tanks
* → Ossetian: танк (tank)
* → Persian: تانک (tânk)
* → Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)
* → Quechua: tanki
* → Romanian: tanc
* → Romansch: tanc
* → Russian: танк (tank), танкъ (tank) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Armenian: տանկ (tank)
** → Kazakh: танк (tank)
** → Mongolian: танк (tank)
* → Carpathian Rusyn: танк (tank)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тенк
    Latin script: tenk
* → Sidamo: tanke
* → Slovak: tank
* → Slovene: tank
* → Swahili: tangi
* → Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)
* → Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)
* → Tatar: танк (tank)
* → Thai: ถัง (tǎng)
* → Tokelauan: tane
* → Turkish: tank
* → Turkmen: tank
* → Ukrainian: танк (tank)
* → Upper Sorbian: tank
* → Urdu: ٹینک (ṭaink)
* → Uyghur: تانكا (tanka)
* → Uzbek: tank
* → Vietnamese: xe tăng, tăng
* → Walloon: tank
* → Welsh: tanc
* → Yakut: тааҥка (taañka)
* → Yiddish: טאַנק (tank)

##### Translations
#### Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)
* To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
** 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
** 2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:"[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
* (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
* (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
** 1913, Geoffrey Martin, Industrial and manufacturing chemistry:Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
* To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
** 2006 March 6, Michael Farber, “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 4 November 2012:Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
* (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
** 2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin)‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
** 2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
** 2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino‎, retrieved 2017-06-19:Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.
* (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
* To put or keep in a tank.
    Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake.

##### Derived terms

* tank up
* face tank

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ “tank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tank (plural tanks)
* A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
* A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

#### References

* ↑ “tank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)
* (Singapore, informal) To stand; to tolerate.

##### Related terms

* buay tank

#### Further reading

* tank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Kant

## Alemannic German
### Interjection

tank
* (Gressoney) thank you

#### Synonyms

* dankche
* fergälts Got
* merci
* vrattrus Got
* wol vergelzgott

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Internationalism. From English tank, from Portuguese tanque, from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī).

### Noun

tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)
* tank

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tank” in Obastan.com.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtaŋk]
* Rhymes: -aŋk

### Noun

tank m inan
* tank, armor

#### Derived terms

* tankový

### Further reading

* “tank”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “tank”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tanˀk/, [ˈtˢɑŋˀɡ̊]

#### Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanke)
* tank (for storage)
    Synonym: beholder
* (informal) filling station, gas station (US), petrol station (UK), service station
    Synonym: tankstation

##### Declension
#### References

* “tank,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tank (but later than the previous word).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːnk/, [ˈtˢæːŋɡ̊]

#### Noun

tank c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanks)
* tank (military fighting vehicle)
    Synonym: kampvogn

##### Declension
#### References

* “tank,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tanˀk/, [ˈtˢɑŋˀɡ̊]

#### Verb

tank
* imperative of tanke

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* (Belgium) IPA: /tɑŋk/
* (Netherlands) IPA: /tɛŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tank
* (Belgium) Rhymes: -ɑŋk
* (Netherlands) Rhymes: -ɛŋk

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

#### Noun

tank m (plural tanks, diminutive tankje n)
* tank (storage reservoir)
* tank (armoured fighting vehicle with tracks and direct-fire gun)
    Synonym: vechtwagen
* (slang) a muscular, physically imposing man

##### Derived terms

* antitankmijn
* gevechtstank
* mannelijke tank
* tankmijn
* tanktoren
* tankval
* vrouwelijke tank

##### Descendants

* → Aukan: tenki
* → Caribbean Javanese: tèng

##### See also

* pantserwagen

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tank
* inflection of tanken:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* kant

## French
### Etymology

English tank.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑ̃k/, (Quebec) /taŋk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tank m (plural tanks)
* tank (military vehicle)
    Synonyms: char, char d’assaut, char de combat
* (North America) tank (container)
    Synonym: réservoir

### Further reading

* “tank”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aŋk

### Verb

tank
* singular imperative of tanken
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of tanken

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒŋk]
* Hyphenation: tank
* Rhymes: -ɒŋk

### Noun

tank (plural tankok)
* tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
* tank, fuel tank (the fuel reservoir of a vehicle)
    Synonym: üzemanyagtartály
* (military) tank, armoured fighting vehicle (military fighting vehicle)
    Synonyms: harckocsi, páncélkocsi, páncélos
* (photography) developing tank (a closed container used for developing film in a daylight environment)
    Synonym: előhívó tank

#### Derived terms

* tankol
* tankos
* tankcsapda
* tankcsata
* tankoszlop
* tanktámadás

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* tank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch tank, from English tank, from Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī), from Sanskrit तडग (taḍaga, “pond”). Doublet of tangki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛŋk/, /ˈtaŋ/
* Hyphenation: tank
* Homophone: tang (in second pronunciation)

### Noun

tank (plural tank-tank)
* tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.

#### Alternative forms

* tang
* teng

#### Synonyms

* kereta kebal (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

### Further reading

* “tank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tank.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛnk/, /ˈtank/
* Rhymes: -ɛnk, -ank
* Hyphenation: tànk

### Noun

tank m (invariable)
* tank (military and container)

### References

* ↑ tank in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

### Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)
* a tank (container, as below)
* (military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tanks)
    Synonym: stridsvogn

#### Derived terms

* bensintank
* drivstofftank
* fisketank
* lastetank
* septiktank
* tankbåt
* tankskip
* tenketank
* vanntank

### References

* “tank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* kant

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tank/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tank.

#### Noun

tank m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)
* a tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
* (military, nonstandard since 2005) a tank (armoured fighting vehicle) ((pre-2005) alternative form of tanks)
    Synonym: stridsvogn

##### Derived terms

* bensintank
* drivstofftank
* fisketank
* lastetank
* septiktank
* tankbåt
* tankskip

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tank
* imperative of tanka

### References

* “tank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* kant

## Swedish
### Noun

tank c
* tank (container for liquids)

#### Related terms

* bensintank
* flyttank
* mjölktank
* tanka
* tankbil
* tanker
* tankfartyg
* tankvagn

#### See also

* dunk
* tanke

### Anagrams

* kant

## Turkish
### Etymology

From English tank.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑŋk/
* Rhymes: -ɑŋk

### Noun

tank (definite accusative tankı, plural tanklar)
* tank

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
tank
tanklar
definite accusative
tankı
tankları
dative
tanka
tanklara
locative
tankta
tanklarda
ablative
tanktan
tanklardan
genitive
tankın
tankların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
tankım
tanklarım
2nd singular
tankın
tankların
3rd singular
tankı
tankları
1st plural
tankımız
tanklarımız
2nd plural
tankınız
tanklarınız
3rd plural
tankları
tankları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
tankımı
tanklarımı
2nd singular
tankını
tanklarını
3rd singular
tankını
tanklarını
1st plural
tankımızı
tanklarımızı
2nd plural
tankınızı
tanklarınızı
3rd plural
tanklarını
tanklarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
tankıma
tanklarıma
2nd singular
tankına
tanklarına
3rd singular
tankına
tanklarına
1st plural
tankımıza
tanklarımıza
2nd plural
tankınıza
tanklarınıza
3rd plural
tanklarına
tanklarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
tankımda
tanklarımda
2nd singular
tankında
tanklarında
3rd singular
tankında
tanklarında
1st plural
tankımızda
tanklarımızda
2nd plural
tankınızda
tanklarınızda
3rd plural
tanklarında
tanklarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
tankımdan
tanklarımdan
2nd singular
tankından
tanklarından
3rd singular
tankından
tanklarından
1st plural
tankımızdan
tanklarımızdan
2nd plural
tankınızdan
tanklarınızdan
3rd plural
tanklarından
tanklarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
tankımın
tanklarımın
2nd singular
tankının
tanklarının
3rd singular
tankının
tanklarının
1st plural
tankımızın
tanklarımızın
2nd plural
tankınızın
tanklarınızın
3rd plural
tanklarının
tanklarının :