Tanna

Meanings

Proper Noun

island Tafea (province) Vanuatu (country).

Noun

Any of the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishna, from approximately 10–220 CE.

Origin

Named by British explorer James Cook in 1774, said to be from Kwamera tana.
From Hebrew תַּנָּא, from Aramaic.

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