Tanya

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

Tanya

1. A female given name.
   • 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. - - -

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

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

Tanya

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

• natya

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

Tanya

1. a female given name