tanya

1. alternativeAlternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”).

alternative Tania · alternative Taniya · alternative Tanja

1. A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana (from Russian) and Tetyana (from Ukrainian).

   CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”

   2023 October 5, Devan Cole, “Media outlets ask judge for permission to broadcast Trump’s federal election subversion trial next year”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

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   “Did Tanya... why, by the way, was she named Tanya? It's not a Southern name, is it?” “No,” said Fanny, “it's as Russian as Vladimir. But only a few people ever pronounced it correctly. I always did. Most people said ‘Tan-ya’, like the color tan. She and her mother hated it when that happened, and complained. I suggested they replace the a in Tan with an o, but they preferred to make a lifelong habit of correcting people.”

   1989, Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 298

1. the main work of Chabad Hassidic philosophy, formally called Likkutei Amarim, written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi, first published in 1797