tana

v.

1. call, name. Call, name. To give a name to something or someone; to designate by a particular name or title.

Example: Na rĩrĩ, awa, Daudi, nĩaacirĩire na ngoro yake gwakĩra Jehova Ngai wa Isiraeli nyũmba ĩĩtanĩtio na rĩĩtwa rĩake. (When David my father wished to build a house for the name of the L ord , the God of Israel,); Na rĩrĩ, Suleimani agĩgĩcirĩra gwaka nyũmba ĩĩtanĩtio na rĩĩtwa rĩa Jehova, o na kwĩakĩra we mwene nyũmba ya ũthamaki. (Solomon conscripted seventy thousand men to carry stones and eighty thousand to cut the stones in the mountains, and over these he placed three thousand six hundred overseers. 2 Chr 2:17; 1 Kgs 5:29–30.)