Tamara

See also: tamara, tamará, tâmara, and Tamāra

English

Etymology

Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára), name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר (tāmār, “date palm”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɑmɑɹə/, IPA^(key): /təmæɹə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /təmɛɹə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Tamara

1. A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.

Related terms

• Tamar
• nonstandard spellings: Tamarah, Tamera, Tamra
• pet forms: Tammie, Tammy

Translations

female given name

• Esperanto: Tamara
• French: Tamara (fr) f
• Georgian: თამარი (tamari)
• German: Tamara (de)
• Hebrew: תמרה (he) f
• Latvian: Tamāra f
• Marathi: टमारा f (ṭamārā)
• Polish: Tamara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tamara (pt) f
• Russian: Тама́ра (ru) f (Tamára)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тамара f

  Roman: Tamara f

• Spanish: Tamara (es)

Anagrams

• tarama

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tamara

1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Тама́ра (Tamára).

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamara]

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tamara

Declension

Declension of Tamara (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Tamara	Tamary
genitive	Tamary	Tamar
dative	Tamaře	Tamarám
accusative	Tamaru	Tamary
vocative	Tamaro	Tamary
locative	Tamaře	Tamarách
instrumental	Tamarou	Tamarami

Faroese

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Tamara: Tamaruson
• daughter of Tamara: Tamarudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Tamara
Accusative	Tamaru
Dative	Tamaru
Genitive	Tamaru

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tamara f (genitive Tamaras or Tamara)

1. a female given name

Latvian

Etymology

Variant of Tamāra.

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name
2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Тама́ра (Tamára).

Related terms

• Tamāra

References

• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Tamara was the only given name of 1409 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈma.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈma.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈma.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈma.ɾɐ/

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tamara

Romanian

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Tamara f (Cyrillic spelling Тамара)

1. a female given name

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtamara/

Proper noun

Tamara f (genitive singular Tamary, nominative plural Tamary, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Tamara

	singular	plural
nominative	Tamara	Tamary
genitive	Tamary	Tamár
dative	Tamare	Tamarám
accusative	Tamaru	Tamary
locative	Tamare	Tamarách
instrumental	Tamarou	Tamarami

Further reading

• “Tamara”, 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

Spanish

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Tamar or Tamara