tanja
Portuguese, noun/ˈtɐ̃.ʒɐ/
tanja is spelled T-A-N-J-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tanja is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “the fruit from the hybrid of a mandarin tree with an orange or grapefruit tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tanger. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “variedade do citrino que resulta do cruzamento da tangerina com a toranja”.
What does tanja mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe fruit from the hybrid of a mandarin tree with an orange or grapefruit tree
- 2
femininemandarin orange
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. variedade do citrino que resulta do cruzamento da tangerina com a toranja 2. tangerina
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tanja
- tanjas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tanja?
- Brazil /ˈtɐ̃.ʒɐ/
- Portugal /ˈtɐ̃.ʒɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tanja in Portuguese?
tanja appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).