تان

तान tān, s.f. A tone; a tune; the key-note (in music);—stretching, tension; knitting (the eyebrows);—a thread; a stretched or tight cord or rope; a rigid rod or bar, a tie-rod (as the rods which give fixity to the poles of a pālkī, or the iron bar of a cart, or across a bedstead):—tān uṛānā, tān toṛnā, v.n. To beat time; to strike up a tune; to strike the key-note;—to crack a joke; to drop a word which induces conversation or excites a quarrel; to animadvert:—tān joṛnā, v.n. To strike up a tune; to sing or play in tune;—to poke fun (at), to crack a joke (=ṭhaṭṭhāmārnā):—tān lenā, v.n. To pitch or to catch the key-note; to tune.