tanna

[ Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah ]

noun,plural tan·na·im [Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah-eem; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah-im]. /Sephardic Hebrew tɑ nɑˈim; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tɑˈnɑ ɪm/. (often initial capital letter)Judaism.
  1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.

Origin of tanna

1
First recorded in 1725–30; <Hebrew tannā “teacher,” from Aramaic tĕnā “to repeat, learn, teach”

Other words from tanna

  • tan·na·i·tic [tah-nuh-it-ik], /ˌtɑ nəˈɪt ɪk/, adjective

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