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Tahsin
This is a name used in the Arab and Islamic world.
It has several definitions but can mean the following:
Enhance, Improve, Praise, Enrich, etc.
Mostly found in countries like Bangladesh and Turkey.
In Arabic, it is spelled تَحْسِيْن. The pronunciation of this name is the trickiest part that many people of the western world have trouble with, even though it is very simple:
The T is the T in procrasTinate, the A is pronounced like the U in rUnning, and the H like in the word Hot.
Then just pronounce the 'sin' part like with scene or like when you say 'movie scene'. Please make sure never to pronounce the 'sin' like in the word 'sin'.
It has several definitions but can mean the following:
Enhance, Improve, Praise, Enrich, etc.
Mostly found in countries like Bangladesh and Turkey.
In Arabic, it is spelled تَحْسِيْن. The pronunciation of this name is the trickiest part that many people of the western world have trouble with, even though it is very simple:
The T is the T in procrasTinate, the A is pronounced like the U in rUnning, and the H like in the word Hot.
Then just pronounce the 'sin' part like with scene or like when you say 'movie scene'. Please make sure never to pronounce the 'sin' like in the word 'sin'.
Example 1:
Tahsin: Hello, my name is Tahsin. Anyone who is named Tahsin is too good to describe here.
Example 2:
Caucasian teacher: Frank?
Frank: Here.
Caucasian teacher: Jeff?
Jeff: Here.
Caucasian teacher: ooh, this one is a tricky one... Uh... Toh-sin?
Tahsin: It's تَحْسِيْن
Tahsin: Hello, my name is Tahsin. Anyone who is named Tahsin is too good to describe here.
Example 2:
Caucasian teacher: Frank?
Frank: Here.
Caucasian teacher: Jeff?
Jeff: Here.
Caucasian teacher: ooh, this one is a tricky one... Uh... Toh-sin?
Tahsin: It's تَحْسِيْن
Tahsin by Remember_Harambe December 28, 2017
Tamsinate
tamsinates, tamsinating, tamsination, past tamsinated
1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. An act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma'am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.
2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like Mr Muscle's kitchen.
1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. An act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma'am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.
2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like Mr Muscle's kitchen.
'Madam, I fear I shall be accused of tamsination, but your shopping list contains a most egregious dangling modifier.'
Lady Sneerwell in Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (1777)
'The room was clean. Too clean. The tip-off said there was a Jane on the floor with a slug in her head. Now the joint looked tamsinated.'
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
Lady Sneerwell in Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (1777)
'The room was clean. Too clean. The tip-off said there was a Jane on the floor with a slug in her head. Now the joint looked tamsinated.'
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
Tamsinate by badgerboyjon October 26, 2011
Tashina
An uncommon first name. Often mistaken for a black name. It's origin is Native American and/or Japanese. The meaning of either origin is debatable, and hard to find.
A very rare surname.
A very rare surname.
My first name is Tashina.
Tashina by tashina sinnie July 15, 2007
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