Tanya

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed in the twentieth century from the Russian pet form Та́ня (Tánja) of Татья́на (Tatʹjána, Tatiana).

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Tanya

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Tatiana, from Russian.
    • 1989, Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 298:
      “Did Tanya... why, by the way, was she named Tanya? It's not a Southern name, is it?” “No,” said Fanny, “it's as Russian as Vladimir. But only a few people ever pronounced it correctly. I always did. Most people said ‘Tan-ya’, like the color tan. She and her mother hated it when that happened, and complained. I suggested they replace the a in Tan with an o, but they preferred to make a lifelong habit of correcting people.”
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Usually spelled Tania in the UK and Tanya in the US.

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Etymology 2

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From Hebrew תַּנְיָא (tanyā), the first word in the book, from Aramaic תַּנְיָא (tanyā, it was taught [in a Baraita]).

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Tanya

  1. the main work of Chabad Hassidic philosophy, formally called Likkutei Amarim, written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi, first published in 1797

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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From English Tanya, from Russian pet form Та́ня (Tánja) of Татья́на (Tatʹjána, Tatiana).

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Tanya

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from Russian]