• Finnish: parkki

• Dutch: gebruind, gebruinde
• Finnish: ruskettunut
• German: braun, sonnengebräunt
• Korean: 탄 (tan)
• Russian: загорелый (zagorélyj)
• Spanish: bronceado (por el sol)

• Dutch: bruinen, zonnebaden
• Finnish: ruskettua
• French: bronzer
• German: bräunen; in der Sonne baden
• Korean: 타다 (tada), 그을다 (geueulda)
• Russian: загорать (zagorát’) impf., загореть (zagorét’) pf.
• Spanish: broncear
• Swedish: sola

• Dutch: looien
• Finnish: parkita
• French: tanner
• German: gerben, walken
• Korean: 무두질하다 (mudujil-hada)
• Spanish: curtir
• Swedish: garva

• ttbc Bulgarian: загарям (zagarjam) (1), щавя (štavja) (2)
• ttbc Romanian: a se bronza (1)

Derived terms

• Black and Tan
• tan oak
• tan somebody's hide
• tanbark
• tanner
• tannery

Related terms

• tannin
• tannic acid

See also

Hungarian

Noun

tan

1. lore

Korean

Adjective

tan (Revised Romanization of 탄, the attributive form of 타다)

1. tanned, burned
2. fused
3. awarded, paid
4. ridden, riding
5. splitting

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

tan

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, tān, tán, tǎn, or tàn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Spanish

Etymology

From tanto

Adverb

tan

1. so, as

   eres tan rico como te sientas (one is as rich as one feels)

Welsh

Preposition

tan

1. until
2. under
3. while

Usage notes

Triggers the soft mutation on any noun following.

Mutation

cy-mut-t an

Tan can mean several things:

• Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
• Tanning, the process of making leather from hides
• Tan (or Tanfana, Tamfana), ancient European goddess
• Tan (color), the color
• Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname - see for examples
• Tan, or Dān (聃), is the posthumous name of Lao Zi (Lao Tzu)
• TAN Books & Publishers, a Catholic publishing company
• OS-tan, an Internet phenomenon on Futaba Channel
• Tahn, a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
• Tan (state), ancient Chinese kingdom situated in eastern Shandong Province.
• Tan, Irish slang for an English person, deriving from The Black and 'Tans'
• O-Qua Tangin Wann, Biaviian co-author of the book "The Coming of Tan" (Historicity Productions)

"TAN" or "tan" may also be a three-letter abbreviation for:

• Tanzania, the country
• Total Acid Number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
• Transaction authentication number in electronic banking
• Taunton Municipal Airport (IATA airport code), in Taunton, Massachusetts
• Thunderbirds Are Now!, a Detroit-based neo-post-punk band
• The Anime Network, an all-anime channel
• Tangent, a mathematical trigonometric function tan(x)

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