Aramaic edit

Alternative forms edit

  • תמא

Etymology edit

Forms ending in the original final /ʔ/ persist into Middle Aramaic, then are displaced with the final nasal. Related to Arabic ثَمَّ (ṯamma) and to Hebrew שם (šam).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

תַּמָּן (tammān)

  1. there, yonder
    • Tanach, Genesis 21:33, with translation of the New International Version:
      וּנצַב אִילָנָא בִּבאֵר שָׁבַע וְצַלִי תַמָן בִּשׁמָא דַייָ אֱלָהּ עָלְמָא
      Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God

References edit

tmh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–