Where does “tankas” come from?

tankas (English) comes from English tanka, from Japanese 短歌, from Middle Chinese 短 — short.

tankas (English): plural of tanka

Definitions

  1. plural of tanka

Ancestry of “tankas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtankaA form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7,...
2Japanese短歌tanka; a form of Japanese verse in five lines of...
3Middle Chinese短short
Every word from Middle Chinese 短 →Every word from Japanese 短歌 →Every word from English tanka →