там

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Belarusian

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Etymology

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From Old East Slavic тамо (tamo), from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tam]
  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

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там (tam)

  1. there

See also

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Bulgarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Church Slavonic тамо (tamo), from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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там (tam) (not comparable)

  1. there (in or at that place)
    Antonym: тук (tuk)

Derived terms

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References

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  • там”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • там”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “там”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 787

Anagrams

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Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic تام
Cyrillic там
Latin tam

Noun

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там (tam) (nominative plural тамдар)

  1. (dated) dugout, house, home
  2. tomb, grave

Declension

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Synonyms

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Mongolian

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Etymology

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From Old Uyghur [script needed] (tamu), itself borrowed from an Iranian language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temH-.

Noun

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там (tam) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠠᠮᠤ (tamu))

  1. hell

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic тамо (tamo), from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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там (tam)

  1. there
    Antonyms: тут (tut), здесь (zdesʹ)
  2. (colloquial) used to reference another topic in a list; next, then, else
    Synonyms: потом (potom), затем (zatem), впоследствии (vposledstvii)
    • 2010 October 6, Николай Мороз [Nikolay Moroz], Мы умирали за героин и нефть... (армейская, гитара) [We've been dying for heroin and oil... (army song, guitar)]‎[1]:
      Но что там на повестке дня
      Вчера прошли Афганистан
      Сегодня наша цель Чечня
      No što tam na povestke dnja
      Včera prošli Afganistan
      Sevodnja naša celʹ Čečnja
      But what's next on today's agenda
      Afghanistan passed yesterday
      Our goal is Chechnya today

Particle

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там (tam)

  1. Filler word, generally before or after stating some example or quality that required thought to find the best word(s)
    На него́ есть, там, поло́ски.Na nevó jestʹ, tam, polóski.It has, you know, stripes on it.
    То есть, ты, наприме́р, мог непра́вильно сказа́ть, там: «Я зову́т».To jestʹ, ty, naprimér, mog neprávilʹno skazátʹ, tam: «Ja zovút».So, for example, you could incorrectly say, you know, "Я зовут".

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Anagrams

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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm). Cognate with Kazakh дәм (däm), Kyrgyz даам (daam), Bashkir тәм (təm), Tatar тәм (täm), Turkmen tagam, Uzbek taʻm, Uyghur تەم (tem), etc.

Noun

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там (tam)

  1. taste

References

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N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “там”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From Old East Slavic тамо (tamo), from Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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там (tam)

  1. there

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