tamu

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtamu/ [ˈtʌmʊ]
• 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): [tamu]

• Audio:

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• 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

• bertamu
• ketamuan
• menamu
• menamui
• pramutamu
• tetamu

 

Compounds

• tamu agung
• tamu di negeri sendiri
• tamu negara

 

Related terms

• têmu

 

Further reading

• “tamu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

tamu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tamu (“turmeric: Curcuma zedoaria”). Compare Tagalog tamo and Balinese ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈmu/ [təˈmu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

tamu

1. zedoary; white turmeric (Curcuma zedoaria)

See also

• ange

 

Further reading

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tamu₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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

• IPA^(key): [taːm(u)]

Noun

tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)

1. grandfather

Derived terms

• isamùpo
• tamùpo
• tamùpòko
• tamùpota
• tamùsano
• tamusi

 

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], 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^[2], 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

• tamuy

Derived terms

• panamu
• patamwan
• tatamu
• tinamu

 

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):

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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	watamu
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

• utamu

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

• “tamu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “tamu”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tamu
Brazilian standard	tamu
New Tribes	tamu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

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^[3], Lyon, page 112
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) 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^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70, 74: “taamudu”

Yogad

Noun

tamu

1. direction