noun
Tania
noun
1
A short form of the female names Tatiana or Tetyana.
"Everyone at work calls her Tania instead of Tatiana."
2
A tropical root vegetable, also called yautia or new cocoyam, grown for its starchy corms.
"The stew was thickened with chunks of tania instead of potato."
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Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a nickname derived from Tatiana, or a starchy root vegetable similar to taro.
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Etymology
The name comes from Russian, as a pet form of Tatiana.