tanque

Borrowed from Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern, underwater water reservour”).^[1] Sense 3 is a semantic loan from English tank (“armoured fighting vehicle”), see there for the sense development.

• Hyphenation: tan‧que

tanque m (plural tanques)

1. tank; cistern
2. a sink used for laundry
4. tank (military vehicle)

• tanquinho

• → Bengali: টাংকি (ṭaṅki)
• → English: tank (see there for further descendants)
• → Hunsrik: Dank
• → Malay: tangki
• → Spanish: tanque
  • → Cebuano: tangke
  • → Tagalog: tangke

Borrowed from Portuguese tanque (“tank”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanke/ [ˈt̪ãŋ.ke]
• Rhymes: -anke
• Syllabification: tan‧que

tanque m (plural tanques)

1. tank (military vehicle)
2. tank (a closed container for liquids or gases)
3. large glass (for drinking)
4. tank (a very muscular and physically imposing person)

• → Cebuano: tangke
• → Tagalog: tangke

• “tanque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28