tank

(Inglês)

Freqüência

B2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/tæŋk/
Etimologia (Inglês)

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language such as Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”). In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

Related words

fermentador aberto

reservatório de água

carro blindado

depósitos de água

Carro de Combate

caixa-d’água

Tanques

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