Bunun

Noun

tama

1. father

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese たま ‎(tama).

Noun

tama

1. light bulb

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian [Term?] (compare Malay rama).

Noun

tama

1. father

Japanese

Romanization

tama

1. rōmaji reading of たま

Kavalan

Noun

tama

1. father

Latin

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

tama f ‎(genitive tamae); first declension

1. A kind of swelling of the feet and legs

Inflection

First declension.

References

• tama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tama”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Niuean

Noun

tama

1. child

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ma/

Noun

tama f

1. dam

Declension

Samoan

Noun

tama

1. boy
2. child

Usage notes

(In the sense: "child") Only said by or to mothers; can be differentiated into tamatane and tamafafine. Otherwise use atali'i or afafine.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tьma. Cognate with Bulgarian тъма ‎(tǎma) and Russian тьма ‎(tʹma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎːma/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ma

Noun

táma f ‎(Cyrillic spelling та́ма)

1. darkness

Declension

Swahili

Adjective

-tama ‎(declinable)

1. final

Swedish

Adjective

tama

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of tam.

Tagalog

Adjective

tama

1. correct, right