thana
English
Etymology
From Hindi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑːnə/
Noun
thana (plural thanas)
- An Indian military outpost.
- (India) A police station, or a police jurisdiction.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
- To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.
- 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 70:
- Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
Related terms
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀣𑀦 (Brahmi script)
- थन (Devanagari script)
- থন (Bengali script)
- ථන (Sinhalese script)
- ထန (Burmese script)
- ถน (Thai script)
- ᨳᨶ (Tai Tham script)
- ថន (Khmer script)
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