tan
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu).
Inflected forms:
form: tans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tannest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light, brown-like colour.
pos: noun
gloss: A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
pos: noun
examples: She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.
I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach.
gloss: The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
pos: noun
examples: In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.
gloss: Yellowish-brown.
pos: adj
examples: a tan suit
Mine is the white car parked next to the tan pickup truck.
The history of suits in politics is long and storied: from Obama’s “shocking” tan suit, now infamous enough to have its own Wikipedia page, […].
gloss: Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
pos: adj
examples: You’re looking very tan this week.
gloss: To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn.
gloss: To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To work as a tanner.
pos: verb
tags: stative
transitive
gloss: To spank or beat.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: "Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
Related words: nontan
tannic acid
tannin
tawny
Derived words: catch a tan
farmer's tan
flowers of tan
gyle tan
permatan
spray tan
suntan
tan balls
tan bed
tan heat
tan line
tan liquor
tannist
tan ride
tantoo
tan track
truck driver's tan
tanbark
black and tan
tanness
tannish
tannishness
tanwall
Black and Tan
overtan
pretan
retan
spray-tan
tanaholic
tanhouse
tanling
tannability
tannable
tannage
tanner
tannery
tanoak
tanorexia
tanorexic
tan out
tanpit
tan someone's hide
tanstuff
tan up
tanworks
tanyard
vegetan
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: حِنْطِيّ
roman: ḥinṭiyy
lang: Arabic
word: قَمْحِيُّ اللَّوْن
roman: qamḥiyyu l-lawn
lang: Bulgarian
word: жълтокафяв
roman: žǎltokafjav
lang: Catalan
word: bronze
lang: Catalan
word: colrat
lang: Catalan
word: torrat
lang: German
word: hellbraun
lang: German
word: loh
lang: German
word: lohfarben
lang: Hungarian
word: sárgásbarna
lang: Indonesian
word: sawo matang
lang: Irish
word: crón
lang: Irish
word: buí
lang: Latvian
word: dzeltenbrūns
lang: Persian
word: خرمائی روشن
roman: xormâ'i-ye rušan
lang: Persian
word: مازویی
lang: Romanian
word: cafeniu
lang: Spanish
word: bronce
lang: Spanish
word: tostado
lang: Turkish
word: bronz
lang: Turkish
word: taba rengi
lang: Welsh
word: melynddu