patana

• patina, patena

From Sanskrit पतन (patana). The spellings patina and patena are probably by conflation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpætənə/

patana (plural patanas)

1. A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
   • 1990, P. J. Skerman, F. Riveros, Tropical Grasses, →ISBN, page 19:

     A considerable area of the jungle vegetation (rain forest) of the montane zone has been destroyed and is now either tea plantation or native patana grassland.

• “patena”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “patana, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

patana

1. essive singular of pata

• napata, pantaa, pataan, tapaan, tapana

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patana f (plural patanas)

1. (Solanum tuberosum L.)[1] potato

• [1]: bocinhòla, entrefega, perilha, tartifla, tartifle, trufa, tufèra, tura

• IPA^(key): /paˈtana/ [paˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: pa‧ta‧na

patana f (plural patanas)

1. (Dominican Republic) tractor-trailer

• “patán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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-patana (infinitive kupatana)

1. Reciprocal form of -pata

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• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -patania
  • Causative: -patanisha
  • Stative: -patanika