tamu

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtamu/,
  • Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

támu m 

  1. taste

Balinese

Romanization

tamu

  1. Romanization of ᬢᬫᬸ

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tamu (“guest, visitor”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of temu (“to meet”). Compare to Old Javanese tamu (“guest, visitor”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

tamu (plural tamu-tamu, first-person possessive tamuku, second-person possessive tamumu, third-person possessive tamunya)

  1. guest, visitor.

Affixed terms

Compounds

Related terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

tamu

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tamu; compare Apalaí tamu, Trió tamu, Wayana tamu, Waiwai taam, Pemon tamo, Ye'kwana tamu, Yao (South America) Tamoucum.

Pronunciation

Noun

tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)

  1. grandfather

Derived terms

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “támusi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 454; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 443

Old Javanese

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of tĕmu (“to meet”).

Noun

tamu

  1. guest

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦠꦩꦸ (tamu)
  • → Balinese: ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tamu (Cyrillic spelling таму)

  1. accusative singular of tama

Swahili

Etymology

Found only in the Sabaki languages, likely a very early borrowing from Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm, “taste”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Adjective

-tamu (declinable)

  1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)
  2. delicious

Declension

Inflected forms of -tamu
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mtamu
m-mi class(III/IV) mtamu mitamu
ji-ma class(V/VI) tamu matamu
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) kitamu vitamu
n class(IX/X) tamu tamu
u class(XI) mtamu see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) patamu
ku class(XVII) kutamu
mu class(XVIII) mutamu

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طامو (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tamu (“hell”).

Cognate with Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”), Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq, “hell”), Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”).

Noun

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

  1. (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)
    Synonym: cehennem
    Antonyms: cennet, (obsolete) uçmak

Declension

Inflection
Nominative tamu
Definite accusative tamuyu
Singular Plural
Nominative tamu tamular
Definite accusative tamuyu tamuları
Dative tamuya tamulara
Locative tamuda tamularda
Ablative tamudan tamulardan
Genitive tamunun tamuların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamum tamularım
2nd singular tamun tamuların
3rd singular tamusu tamuları
1st plural tamumuz tamularımız
2nd plural tamunuz tamularınız
3rd plural tamuları tamuları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumu tamularımı
2nd singular tamunu tamularını
3rd singular tamusunu tamularını
1st plural tamumuzu tamularımızı
2nd plural tamunuzu tamularınızı
3rd plural tamularını tamularını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamuma tamularıma
2nd singular tamuna tamularına
3rd singular tamusuna tamularına
1st plural tamumuza tamularımıza
2nd plural tamunuza tamularınıza
3rd plural tamularına tamularına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumda tamularımda
2nd singular tamunda tamularında
3rd singular tamusunda tamularında
1st plural tamumuzda tamularımızda
2nd plural tamunuzda tamularınızda
3rd plural tamularında tamularında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumdan tamularımdan
2nd singular tamundan tamularından
3rd singular tamusundan tamularından
1st plural tamumuzdan tamularımızdan
2nd plural tamunuzdan tamularınızdan
3rd plural tamularından tamularından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumun tamularımın
2nd singular tamunun tamularının
3rd singular tamusunun tamularının
1st plural tamumuzun tamularımızın
2nd plural tamunuzun tamularınızın
3rd plural tamularının tamularının

Further reading

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tamu (“grandfather”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tamu (obligatorily possessed; possessed tamudu)

  1. grandfather

Usage notes

This noun has a suppletive first-person possessed form, kooko.

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 112
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-tamū-du”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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Yogad

Noun

tamu

  1. direction
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