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Poem of 31 syllables in five lines
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tanka
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Word definitions for tanka in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tanka \Tan"ka\, n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia . --S. W. Williams.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of Japanese poem, 1877, from Japanese tanka , from tan "short" + ka "song."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5,7,5,7,7 morae Etymology 2 n. 1 a strong, forceful expression 2 a Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric. Etymology 3 n. A kind of boat used in Canton, about 25 feet long and often rowed by women. ...
Usage examples of tanka.
They walked slowly to their doors, weighing the pros and cons of going with the Tanka captain.
The couple in question is scheduled to leave this afternoon on a Tanka junk to make one of the Fertility, Limited, pickups.
Crazy Horse lit his pipe and after offering it to Mother Earth and Wakan Tanka and the four directions, he handed it to Jess.
It was simply a large three-dimensional video tanka bare platform six feet by six that projected synthesized holographic images upward into empty air.
Begins to write tanka in an effort to find an effective way to continue the tanka.
The tanka in question is Number 5 of The Hundred Poems, a great collection of old poetry.
Okute had tried to explain it to her, telling her that the Lakota believed that a man, or woman, received power from Wakan Tanka, the Great Mystery, whose spirit was in all and through all.
Shivering from the cold, his, belly empty, his throat dry, he rose to his feet and sang his dawn song to Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, who was the center of all life.
And without a word Geble turned her back upon them, calling for Tanka, her personal secretary.
Instead they tried to express to Tanka their desire to meet the ruling head of Gola.
Although their hand motions were perfectly inane and incomprehensible, Tanka could read what passed through their brains, and understood more fully than they what lay in their minds.
Detaxalans tried to explain what they wished, thinking Tanka did not understand.
Next to Sitting Bull, now that Gall was out of the way, dying of illness and old age, Si Tanka had more influence than any chief afield, and he longed to be acknowledged head of the allied Sioux.
A few days more must they suffer until Si Tanka and his braves were met, until, in overwhelming force, they could turn on the scattered and helpless settlers.
He remounted the bridge, and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong.