Tank

See also: tank and tänk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu ٹانک.

Proper noun

Tank

1. A city in Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2. A district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taŋk/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aŋk

Noun

Tank m (strong, genitive Tanks or (rare) Tankes, plural Tanks or (very rare) Tanke)

1. tank (container for liquids or gases)
2. (military, archaic) tank (armoured fighting vehicle)

   Synonyms: Panzer, Panzerkampfwagen

   • 1942, Bertolt Brecht, Kinderkreuzzug 1939:

     Einmal, nachts, sahen sie ein Feuer / Da gingen sie nicht hin. / Einmal rollten drei Tanks vorbei / Da waren Menschen drin.

     One night, they saw a fire / They didn't go there. / One time, three tanks rolled by / There were people inside.

Declension

Declension of Tank [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tank	die	Tanks, Tanke1
genitive	eines	des	Tanks, Tankes1	der	Tanks, Tanke1
dative	einem	dem	Tank, Tanke1,2	den	Tanks, Tanken1
accusative	einen	den	Tank	die	Tanks, Tanke1

¹Rare.
²Now rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

• Benzintank
• Drucktank
• Flüssiggastank
• Gastank
• Sauerstofftank (“oxygen tank”)
• Treibstofftank
• Wassertank (“water tank”)

Related terms

• tanken
• Tanke
• Tanker

Further reading

• “Tank” in Duden online
• “Tank”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)