tame

English

Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated.

Etymology

From Old English tam

Pronunciation

• IPA: teɪm

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Adjective

tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated

   They have a tame wildcat.

2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact

   The lion was quite tame.

3. Not exciting

   This party is too tame for me.

4. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• (not exciting): dull, insipid

Antonyms

• (not wild): wild
• (mild and well-behaved): gentle
• (not exciting): exciting
• (mathematics): wild

Derived terms

• tamely
• tameness

Translations

not wild

• Arabic: اليف (ar) (ʾalīf)
• Armenian: ընտանի (hy) (ëntani)
• Catalan: mans (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馴服的 (cmn), 驯服的 (cmn) (xúnfú de)

• Czech: krotký (cs) m
• Danish: tam (da)
• Dutch: tam (nl)
• Filipino: maamo (tl)
• Finnish: kesy (fi)
• French: apprivoisé (fr)
• German: zahm (de)
• Greek: ήμερος (el) (ímeros) m
• Hungarian: szelíd (hu)
• Indonesian: jinak (id)

• Italian: addomesticato (it)
• Japanese: 飼いならされた (ja) (かいならされた, kainarasareta)
• Korean: 길들인 (ko) (gildeurin)
• Malay: jinak (ms)
• Meänkieli: alju (fit)
• Norwegian: tam (no)
• Polish: oswojony (pl) m
• Portuguese: domesticado (pt)
• Russian: приручённый (ru) (priručónnyj), ручной (ru) (ručnój) (esp. of small animals)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsaichte (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: pitom (sh) m, питом (sh)
• Spanish: domesticado (es), manso (es) m
• Swedish: tam (sv)
• Telugu: మచ్చిక (te) (maccika)
• Thai: เชื่อง (th)

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (transitive) to make something tame

   He tamed the wild horse.

2. (intransitive) to become tame

Derived terms

• tamer

Translations

to make something tame

• Armenian: ընտելացնել (hy) (ëntelac’nel)
• Catalan: domar (ca), amansir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馴服 (cmn), 驯服 (cmn) (xúnfú), 馴化 (cmn), 驯化 (cmn) (xùnhuà)

• Czech: krotit (cs)
• Danish: tæmme (da)
• Dutch: temmen (nl)
• Finnish: kesyttää (fi)
• French: apprivoiser (fr), domestiquer (fr), dompter (fr)
• German: zähmen (de)
• Greek: εξημερώνω (el) (eximeróno), δαμάζω (el) (damázo), τιθασεύω (el) (tithasévo)
• Indonesian: menjinakkan (id)

• Italian: addomesticare (it)
• Japanese: 飼いならす (ja) (かいならす, kainarasu)
• Korean: 길들이다 (ko) (gildeurida)
• Norwegian: temme (no)
• Polish: oswajać (pl)
• Portuguese: domar (pt)
• Russian: прируча́ть (ru) (priručátʹ) impf., приручи́ть (ru) (priručítʹ) pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsaich (gd), callaich (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: pripitomiti (sh), припитомити (sh)
• Spanish: amansar (es), domar (es)
• Swedish: tämja (sv)

to become tame

• Armenian: ընտելանալ (hy) (ëntelanal)
• Finnish: kesyyntyä (fi)
• German: ‎zahm werden
• Greek: εξημερώνομαι (el) (eximerónomai)
• Italian: addomesticato (it) m

• Korean: 길들다 (ko) (gildeulda)
• Norwegian: temmes (no)
• Portuguese: ‎ser domado, domar-se (pt)
• Russian: прируча́ться (ru) (priručátʹsja) impf., приручи́ться (ru) (priručítʹsja) pf.

External links

• Tame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mate, maté
• meat
• meta, Meta
• team

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Inari Sami

Noun

tame

1. glue

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Swedish

Adjective

tame

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.