- IPA(key): /taˈma/ [tʌˈmʌ]
- Hyphenation:ta‧ma
tamá
- this,that,these,those (feminine; near the spoken to)
Afar demonstrative determiners | masculine | feminine |
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proximal | á | tá |
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medial | amá | tamá |
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distal | wóo | tóo |
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very distal | wótti |
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- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “tama”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
FromBengaliতামা(tama).
tama
- copper
tamà
- correct
- Antonym:sala
tamà
- hit;strike;shot
tama
- tasty
tama
- father
Borrowed fromJapaneseたま(tama).
tama
- light bulb
tama
- (dialect, Moravia)this way, this direction
- Synonym:(standard Czech)tudy
FromProto-Austronesian*ama-h.
tama
- father
Clipping ofTamagotchi
tama(colloquial)
- Tamagotchi
tama
- copper
tamā f (possessed formtamar̃)
- iron ore
- Newman, Paul (2007)A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press,→ISBN, page196.
tama
- tooth (body part)
tama
- tocomeinside
tama
- (Banawá)vine
tama
- Rōmaji transcription ofたま
FromProto-Austronesian*ama (compareFijiantama).
tama
- father
Unknown
tama f (genitivetamae);first declension
- A kind ofswelling of the feet and legs
First-declension noun.
- “tama”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tama inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
FromArabicطَمَع(ṭamaʕ,“greed, wish”). The loss of the finalgħ is regular in this noun, but was generalised throughout the root (and is therefore reflected in the spelling). Compare, however,tema’.
tama f (pluraltamiet)
- hope
- Synonym:speranza
FromArabicطَمِعَ(ṭamiʕa).
tama (imperfectjitma)
- tohope
tama
- boy
- son
- male,man
“tama” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
tama
- child
Borrowed fromMiddle High Germantam(m).
- IPA(key): /ˈta.ma/
- Rhymes:-ama
- Syllabification:ta‧ma
tama f
- dam
- Synonyms:jaz,zapora
- tama inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tama in Polish dictionaries at PWN
FromProto-Austronesian*t-ama.
tama
- father
- godfather
tama
- boy
- child
(In the sense: "child") Only said by or to mothers; can be differentiated intotamatane andtamafafine. Otherwise useatali'i orafafine.
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*tьma, fromProto-Balto-Slavic*timāˀ, fromProto-Indo-European*temH-. Cognate withBulgarianтъма(tǎma) andRussianтьма(tʹma).
- IPA(key): /tǎːma/
- Hyphenation:ta‧ma
táma f (Cyrillic spellingта́ма)
- darkness
- “tama”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025
Borrowed fromArabicتَامّ(tāmm).
-tama (declinable)
- final
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
tama
- really,truly
- Synonym:kweli
-tama
- tostrive, totry
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
tama
- inflection oftam:
- definitesingular
- plural
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*tamaq(“appropriate, suitable; fit together; hit the mark”). Also possibly fromMalayutama(“perfect”), ultimately fromSanskritउत्तम(uttama,“excellent”).
tamà (Baybayin spellingᜆᜋ)
- correct;right
- Synonyms:tumpak,wasto,(Marinduque)husto
- fit;proper(of one's actions, decisions, etc.)
- Synonyms:akma,tugma,angkop,bagay,nababagay
- hitting themark
- Synonym:tingid
- winning(of a bet)
- Synonyms:nanalo,panalo
tamà (Baybayin spellingᜆᜋ)
- rightanswer;correctanswer
- rightthing todo;morallygood orproperact
- successfulhit,strike, orshot
- woundcaused by ahit orshot(of a bullet, arrow, etc.)
- (colloquial)elevation inmood
- (colloquial, by extension)tipsiness
- winningnumbers(in a lotto, etc.)
- rightfit oradjustment
- “tama”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
CompareMaoritomo.
tama
- toenter
FromProto-Polynesian*tama. Cognates includeHawaiiankama andSamoantama.
- IPA(key): [ˈta.ma]
- Hyphenation:ta‧ma
tama
- child
- boy
- roe
- malformedcoconut
- For the sense "child",tama is only used to refer to a child in relation to either both its parents or its mother.
- R. Simona, editor (1986),Tokelau Dictionary[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page369
tama (definite formtamaji)
- asmall type oftalking drum
- Omar Ka (2018)Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center,→ISBN, page254
- Fal, Arame, Santos, Rosine, Doneux, Jean Léonce (1990)Dictionnaire wolof-français, Paris: Éditions KARTHALA,→ISBN, page212