Tannaitic
noun, plural tannaim
[Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah-eem; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah-im] /Sephardic Hebrew tɑ nɑˈim; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tɑˈnɑ ɪm/ (Show IPA). (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.
Read Also:
- Tannate
noun, Chemistry. 1. a salt of tannic acid. noun 1. any salt or ester of tannic acid tannate tan·nate (tān’āt’) n. A salt or an ester of tannic acid.
- Tanned
verb (used with object), tanned, tanning. 1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically. 2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun. 3. Informal. to thrash; spank. verb (used without object), tanned, tanning. 4. to become tanned. noun […]
- Tannenbaum
noun, plural Tannenbäume [tah-nuh n-boi-muh] /ˈtɑ nənˌbɔɪ mə/ (Show IPA). English, Tannenbaums. German. 1. a Christmas tree.
- Tannenberg
noun 1. a village formerly in East Prussia, now in N Poland: major German victory over the Russians 1914. noun 1. a village in N Poland, formerly in East Prussia: site of a decisive defeat of the Teutonic Knights by the Poles in 1410 and of a decisive German victory over the Russians in 1914 […]
- Tanner
noun 1. a person whose occupation it is to tan hides. adjective 1. comparative of tan1 . noun 1. British Slang. a sixpenny piece. noun 1. Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891. verb (used with object), tanned, tanning. 1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially […]