tankah
noun
variants or tanka or less commonly tangka
plural tankahs or tankas also tangkas
: a formerly used silver coin of India corresponding to the rupee
Word History
First Known Use
1841, in the meaning defined above
tankas
noun
as in haiku
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- haiku
- senryu
- odes
- epigrams
- triolets
- limericks
- elegies
- psalms
- sonnets
- villanelles
- pastorals
- eclogues
- poesies
- poetries
- dithyrambs
- rondels
- madrigals
- idylls
- poems
- rondelles
- epics
- rondeaux
- pastorales
- georgics
- jingles
- ballads
- clerihews
- blank verses
- free verses
- idyls
- rhymes
- vers libres
- epodes
- rondelets
- anacreontics
- epopees
- eposes
- versifications
- laments
- rimes
- verses
- English sonnets
- minstrelsies
- runes
- lays
- lyrics
- songs
- for better or for worse
- for better or worse
- for certain
- for cheap
- for color
- for company
- for crying out loud
- for dear life
- for decoration
- for example
- for fair
- for fear of
- for free
- for future reference
- for good
- for good and all
- for good and for ill
- for good behavior
- for good measure
- for goodness' sake
- for heaven's sake
- for hire
- for instance
- for it
- for keeps