Tania

See also: tania, Tània, Tânia, tanią, Tanią, and tañía

English

Alternative forms

• Tanya, Taniya

Etymology

From Russian. See Tanya.

Proper noun

Tania

1. A diminutive of the female given name Tatiana.
   • 1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102:

     "Does she? What a name that child has got. Tania."
     "That's not so odd a name," Hazel said. "Not nowadays."
     "I know. They all have outlandish international names, like Tania and Natasha and Erin and Solange and Carmen. No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers."

Usage notes

• Usually spelled Tania in the UK and Tanya in the US.

Translations

female given name

• Catalan: Tània f
• Danish: Tanja
• Esperanto: Tanjo
• Finnish: Tanja (fi)
• French: Tania (fr) f
• German: Tanja (de) f
• Greek: Τάνια (el) f (Tánia)
• Japanese: ターニャ (Tānya)
• Norwegian: Tanja (no)
• Polish: Tania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tânia (pt) f
• Russian: Та́ня (ru) f (Tánja), Татья́на (ru) f (Tatʹjána) (non-diminutive)
• Spanish: Tania (es) f
• Swedish: Tanja (sv)

Anagrams

• Anita, NAATI, T'ai-an, Tai'an, Tiaan, Tiana

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.nja/

Proper noun

Tania f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tania

Anagrams

• Anita

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of Tatiana + -nia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: Ta‧nia
• Homophone: tania

Proper noun

Tania f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Tatiana

Declension

Declension of Tania

	singular	plural
nominative	Tania	Tanie
genitive	Tani	Tań
dative	Tani	Taniom
accusative	Tanię	Tanie
instrumental	Tanią	Taniami
locative	Tani	Taniach
vocative	Taniu	Tanie

Further reading

• Tania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanja/ [ˈt̪a.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: Ta‧nia

Proper noun

Tania f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tania

Usage notes

• Popular in Cuba.