tam

tam

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tamil.

• IPA^(key): /tæm/

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Short for tam o'shanter.

tam (plural tams)

1. Clipping of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.
   • 1988 July 1, Bryan Miller, “A Gathering of Scots”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.

From the Cantonese pronunciation of 擔／担.

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of picul, a unit of weight, particularly in Cantonese contexts.

• AMT, ATM, MAT, MTA, Mat, Mat., TMA, amt, amt., atm, mat, mat.

From Arabic تَامّ (tāmm).

tam

1. (of a task to be completed) done; finished; complete

   Mən kitabı hələ tam oxumamışam. ― I have not finished reading the book.

2. completely, really

   Mən bu məsələni tam başa düşmədim. ― I haven't really understood this issue.

From Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm).

tam (definite accusative tamı, plural tamlar)

1. taste

   Synonym: dad

• tamsız

• “tam” in Obastan.com.

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

tam

1. water

• Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. p. 128.
• Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmoor, U. (eds.). World Loanword Database.

tam

1. teeming, full

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Czech tamo, from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtam]

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tam

1. there (in or at that place or location)
2. there (to or into that place)

   Antonyms: zpět, zpátky

• tam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• tam in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Old Danish tam, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

tam

1. tame

• “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Dutch *tam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑm

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

1. tame, not wild
2. (figuratively) boring, unexciting, bland

• Afrikaans: tam
• Negerhollands: teem

• mat

Borrowed from Latin tam.

• IPA^(key): /tam/

tam

1. as (in comparison), so (followed by an adj.)

• kam (“than, as, to (in comparison)”)

From Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /tam/

tam (feminine tamet)

1. eight

   Synonym: tmanya

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/
• Syllabification: tam

tam

1. there

   Coordinate term: tu

• “tam”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tam”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

tam

1. honey

• Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

• IPA^(key): /tam/

tam

1. to make something level

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

From Proto-Italic *sei, from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂m, accusative of *séh₂, feminine of *só. Compare with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t̪ä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t̪äm]

tam (not comparable)

1. so, so much, to such an extent, to such a degree

   Synonyms: adeō, eō, tantopere, tantum

   Sextus tam iratus erat ut fratrem interficere vellet.

   Sextus was so angry that he wished to kill his brother.

Often coupled with quam.

1. Such that "tam x, quam y" = "so x, as y"
   • Spinoza, Ethica Liber V:

     Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.

     But all things excellent are as rare as they are difficult

Often sets off a subjunctive clause of result.

• tamen
• tamquam
• tandem
• tantus

• “tam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
    

tam

1. to that; dative singular masculine of tas

• The dative and adverbial forms have one pronunciation, while the locative form has another.

tám

1. dative singular masculine of tàs

   tám výrui ― to that man

tám

1. for that purpose
2. so that, in order to [followed by kàd + a subordinate clause, often in the subjunctive]

   Válgo daržóves tám, kàd bū́tų sveĩkas. ― He eats vegetables in order to be healthy.

tam̃

1. Alternative form of tamè: locative singular masculine of tàs

   tam̃ miestè ― in that city

• “tam”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “tam”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): [tam]

tam

1. there (in that place)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “tam”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “tam”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Inherited from Old Polish tam.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtam]
• Syllabification: tam

tam (not comparable)

1. there (at that place)

   Coordinate term: tu

   • 2018, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Paweł Pogorzelski and Psioter ôt Sziatków (Piotr Szatkowski), Małi Princ [The Little Prince], →ISBN, page 72:

     – Dobri dżiéń – poziedżiáł, kiebi szie trasiło, co chtószczi tam buł.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

tam

1. Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

tam

1. (Northern, after d or t) Alternative form of þem (“them”)

From Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm).

tam ?

1. taste

• IPA^(key): [tʰɑːm]

tam

1. precisely, exactly

From Old Anatolian Turkish طام (d̥am).

• IPA^(key): [tɑːm]

tam ?

1. house, building, structure

From Old Norse tamr.

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

• temme

• “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse tamr.

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

• temja, temje

• “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• tom

From Proto-West Germanic *tam.

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

tam

1. tame

• Middle English: tame, tam; tom, tome
  • English: tame
  • Scots: tame

• tamo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tam/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tam/

tam

1. there (at that place)
2. there, thither (to that place)

• Masurian: tam
• Polish: tam
• Silesian: tam

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tam”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “2. tam”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /tam/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: tam

Inherited from Old Polish tam.

tam (not comparable)

1. there (at that place)

   Coordinate term: tu

2. there, thither (to that place)

   Synonym: dotąd

   Coordinate term: tu

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tam (adverb) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 34 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 70 times in essays, 148 times in fiction, and 216 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 503 times, making it the 87th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

tam

1. contrastive particle

   Ja tam to lubię. ― Yeah well I like it.

2. (colloquial) particle that reduces the importance of something some

   coś tam ― something or other

3. (colloquial) particle that marks a statement as inadequately describing something

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tam (particle) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 0 times in essays, 27 times in fiction, and 78 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 105 times, making it the 593rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tam f

1. genitive plural of tama

• tam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TAM I”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2016 May 10
• “TAM II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2008 January 14
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tam”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 15

tam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of tão

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tam- (“to drip”). Cognate with Southern Altai тамар (tamar, “to drip”), Turkish damlamak.

tam

1. (intransitive) to drip

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “tam”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

tam (Cyrillic spelling там)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

   Synonym: tamo

Inherited from Old Polish tam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: tam

tam

1. there (at that place)

   Synonyms: (regional) hań, (Cieszyń) hanej, (Cieszyń) han

   Coordinate terms: sam, tukej, tu

tam

1. (expressive) particle that highlights the similarities of something

• tam in dykcjonorz.eu
• tam in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/

tam

1. there

   Antonym: tu

2. thither

   Synonym: ta

   Antonym: sem

• “tam”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /tám/

tȁm

1. there, in that place

• “tam”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Old Swedish tamber, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

1. tame (not wild), domesticated

• tämja

• mat, mat.

tam

1. wall

From Ottoman Turkish تام (tam, “complete, exact; completely, exactly”), from Arabic تَامّ (tāmm).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑm/

tam

1. complete, absolute
2. full, entire

• tam sayı
• tamlık

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 480

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: tam
• Syllabification: tam

tam (not comparable)

1. there

• “tam” in Soblex

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 三 (“three”).

tam

1. (only in compounds) three

• (native) ba

From Proto-Vietic *k-saːm. Cognate with Arem katʰæːm, Thavung saːm¹, Kuy sɛːm, Khmu [Cuang] hɛːm.

The term was probably already archaic by the time it started to be written down and was only attested in the compound 󰞿三 (anh tam, “elder brother and younger sibling”).

tam • (三)

1. (obsolete) younger sibling
   • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “述興 Thuật hứng 19”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):

     𡶀廊盈𪀄部伴
     𩄲客次月󰞿三

     Núi láng diềng, chim bầu bạn,
     Mây khách thứa, nguyệt anh tam.

     Mountains as neighbors, birds are friends,
     Clouds as guests, the moon is my kin.

tam

1. taste

• bêtam
• tamey
• tamin
• tamkar
• tam kerden
• tamser
• tam kerdış