tanner

See also: Tanner

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtænɚ/
  • Homophone: Tanner
  • Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan + -er.

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

  1. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from the name of the coin designer, John Sigismund Tanner (died 1775)

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

  1. (Britain, colloquial) A former British coin, worth six old pence
    • George Borrow, Lavengro (Chapter XXXI)
      Lor! don't you know, dear? Why, a tanner is sixpence.
Synonyms
Translations

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

  1. A type of commercially-fished crab, Chionoecetes bairdi or Chionoecetes opilio.
    • 1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale:
      The new plant is assumed to result in additions to the resident fleet during the tanner and dungeness crab seasons and function as a port of call for an increased number of trollers, resulting in more local seafood processing.
    • 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7:
      There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.
    • 1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge, →ISBN:
      We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.

Adjective

tanner

  1. comparative form of tan: more tan
    • Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite (page 173)
      He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.

Estonian

Noun

tanner (genitive tandri, partitive tandrit)

  1. Alternative form of tander

Inflection


Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to Veps tandreh. Cognate to Karelian tanner, Karelian tannar, Veps tandar, Veps tandarta (to tread down), Veps hard tamped place, Estonian tanderdada (id., dialectal), Estonian tandermik (playground), Proto-Samic *tuontër (a kind of mountain in Lapland)

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

tanner

  1. field
  2. ground
  3. hard tamped soil or snow
  4. yard
  5. open flat area

Declension

Derived terms

  • tannertaa (to tread down, tread tough) (dialectal)

See also

  • manner
  • mantere
  • kinner
  • Tonttu Tonteri (a traditional name for a pixy)
  • Tonteri (a Finnish surname)

Compounds

References

Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija (editors). 1992–2000. Suomen sanojen alkuperä ('The Origin of Finnish Words'). Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus/Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. →ISBN.


French

Etymology

tan + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ne/

Verb

tanner

  1. (transitive) to tan (in leather-making)

Conjugation

Further reading


Old French

Verb

tanner

  1. Alternative form of taner

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-nn, *-nns, *-nnt are modified to n, ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.


Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَنُّور (tannūr).

Noun

tanner (definite accusative tanneri, plural tannerler)

  1. plate
  2. dish

Synonyms

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