Ohana vs Thana - What's the difference?
ohana | thana |
An extended Hawaiian family unit.
English borrowed terms
English terms derived from Hawaiian
An Indian military outpost.
A police station, or a police jurisdiction in India.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
As nouns the difference between ohana and thana
is that ohana is an extended Hawaiian family unit while thana is an Indian military outpost.ohana
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(wikipedia ohana)Noun
(en noun)thana
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Noun
(en noun)- To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana , and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.