toma

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See also: Toma, tomá, tôma, Tôma, tǫ̂mą, tomaʼ, and -toma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian toma. Cognate with Sicilian tuma.

Noun

toma (uncountable)

  1. A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont

See also

Anagrams

'Are'are

Verb

toma

  1. to be limp

References

Asturian

Verb

toma

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Verb

toma

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomar (“to drink; to take”). Doublet of tomar.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: to‧ma
  • IPA(key): /ˈtomaʔ/

Noun

tomà

  1. (slang) alcohol consumption

Verb

tomà

  1. (slang) to drink alcohol

Conjugation

Conjugation for toma (mo- )
Affix Root word Trigger
mo- toma actor
Aspect Imperative
Infinitive Past/present inchoative Future/habitual inchoative
motoma mitoma
nitoma 		motoma pagtoma
Conjugation for toma (maka- )
Affix Root word Trigger
maka- toma actor
Aspect
Infinitive Past/present inchoative Future/habitual inchoative
makatoma nakatoma makatoma
Conjugation for toma (-on )
Affix Root word Trigger
-on toma object
Aspect Imperative
Infinitive Past/present inchoative Future/habitual inchoative
tomaon gitoma tomaon tomaa

Galician

Verb

toma

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

Noun

toma

  1. vocative plural of tom (“bush, shrub”)
  2. genitive singular of tom (“fit, paroxysm”)

Verb

toma

  1. present subjunctive analytic of tom (“dip, immerse”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toma thoma dtoma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

Probably a cousin of French tome (“kind of mountain cheese”), itself from Latin tomus (“slice, portion”). Compare Sicilian tuma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɔma
  • Hyphenation: tò‧ma

Noun

toma f (plural tome)

  1. toma

Further reading

  • Oxford University Press (2016): The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

toma

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とま

Jur Modo

Noun

toma

  1. book
    • 1993, Toma Mi Akugu'ba Yowani: Book of Gospel according to John:
    • 1994, toma Mi Tisaki: Book of Genesis:

Synonyms

Lingala

Verb

toma

  1. to send

Mansaka

Etymology

From tuma, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tumah.

Noun

toma

  1. louse

Maori

Noun

toma

  1. tomb, mausoleum
    I whakatakotoria tahitia a Mananui rāua ko Nohopapa ki te toma i Pūkawa.
    Mananui and Nohopapa were laid together in the vault at Pūkawa.

Mbati

Noun

toma

  1. clay

References

  • LePage, Sarah Gloria (2020) "The phonology of Mbati"‎, University of North Dakota

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ɔmɐ
  • Hyphenation: to‧ma

Verb

toma

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoma/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oma
  • Syllabification: to‧ma

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).

Noun

toma f (plural tomas)

  1. conquest, capture, taking, takeover
  2. dose, serving
  3. (medicine) intake
  4. socket, connector, outlet (source of electricity, internet etc.) (Ellipsis of toma de corriente.)
    Synonyms: enchufe, conexión
  5. shot, take, recording
  6. (Chile) an act of political civil disobedience through occupation protest that assumes control of a place, often a building or park
Usage notes
  • With regards to the political definition this often expressed in English through the verb occupy or simply as a protest and context is given to explain it occurred within a particular place.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

toma

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomar (“to drink; to take”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tomà or toma (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ)

  1. (colloquial) act of drinking an alcoholic beverage
    Synonyms: tungga, barik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “toma”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

Ternate

Pronunciation

Preposition

toma (Jawi تم)

  1. non-human oblique preposition
    1. to
      una owosa toma kamar madaha ― he entered the room (literally, “he went to the room's inside”)
      ifere toma kadatu ― they climbed to the palace
      horu-horu ka toma Disa ― paddle on towards Disa
    2. at, in
      Kie Gamalama itego toma kie makonora ― Mount Gamalama sits in the island's center
      toma ngote maadu ― at the bottom of the stairs
    3. on
      toma wange enage ― on that day
      otego toma kurusi ― he sits on a chair
    4. from
      bifi doro toma meja manyeku ― the ant falls from the desk's top

Usage notes

Toma is only used when the referent is non-human. For human referents, se is used instead.

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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