tam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tam"

English

Etymology 1

Short for tam o'shanter.

Noun

tam (plural tams)

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

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

Etymology 2

From the Cantonese pronunciation of 擔

Noun

tam (plural tams)

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

Anagrams

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

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Chewong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

Noun

tam

1. water

References

• 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.

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Crimean Tatar

Adjective

tam

1. teeming, full

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

• audio

  (file)

Adverb

tam

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

Antonyms

• (to or into that place): zpět, zpátky

Derived terms

• tamní
• tamější
• tamtudy

Further reading

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

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Danish

Etymology

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

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Inflection

Inflection of tam
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Common singular	tam	tammere	tammest2
Neuter singular	tamt	tammere	tammest2
Plural	tamme	tammere	tammest2
Definite attributive1	tamme	tammere	tammeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

References

• “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

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

Inflection

Inflection of tam
uninflected	tam
inflected	tamme
comparative	tammer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		tam	tammer	het tamst het tamste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	tamme	tammere	tamste
	n. sing.	tam	tammer	tamste
	plural	tamme	tammere	tamste
definite		tamme	tammere	tamste
partitive		tams	tammers	—

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tam

Anagrams

• mat

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

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

See also

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

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Kurdish

Noun

tam ?

1. taste

Derived terms

• bêtam
• bêtamî
• bêtamîtî
• bêtamtî
• bitam
• bitamî
• bitamîtî
• bitamtî
• tamandin
• tamandî
• tamdar
• tamdarî
• tamdarîtî
• tamdartî
• tamder
• tamderî
• tamderîtî
• tamdertî
• tamdêr
• tamdêrî
• tamdêrîtî
• tamdêrtî
• tamijandin
• tamijandî
• tamijiyayî
• tamijî
• tamijîn
• tamijîner
• tamijok
• tamî
• tam jê hatin
• tamker
• tam kirin
• tamkirî

Adverb

tam

1. precisely, exactly

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Lashi

Verb

tam

1. make something level

References

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *téh₂m, accusative of *séh₂, feminine of *só. Confer with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t̪ãˑ]

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

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

   Sextus tam iratus erat ut fratrem interficere vellet

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

Usage notes

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 'tips off' a subjunctive clause of result.

Derived terms

• tamen
• tamquam
• tandem
• tantus

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	interrogative	indefinite	(medial) demonstrative	proximal demonstrative	distal demonstrative	relative	indefinite relative	identity	other
basic	quis, quī	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus	is, iste, istic	hic	ille, illic	quī	quisquis, quīcumque	ipse, īdem	alter, alius
dual	uter	alteruter, uterque				uter	utercumque
number	quot	aliquot	tot			quot	quotquot, quotcumque	totidem
order	quotus		totus			quotus	quotuscumque
quantity	quam	aliquam	tam			quam	†quamquam	†tamen, †tandem
size	quantus	aliquantus	tantus			quantus	quantuscumque	tantusdem
quality	quālis		tālis			quālis	quālis, quāliscumque
manner	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	ita, sic, eō/istō modō	hōc modō	illō modō	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	item, itidem	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
method, path place	quā	aliquā, quāque	eā, istāc	hāc	illāc	quā	quāquā, quācumque	eādem	aliā
place	ubi	alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam	ibi, istic	hīc	illic	ubi	ubiubi, ubicumque	ibidem	alibī, aliās
source	unde	alicunde	inde, istinc	hinc	illinc	unde	undecumque	indidem	aliunde
destination	quō, quōrsum	aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	eō, istūc, °istōrsum	hūc, °hōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	quō	quōquō, quōcumque	eōdem	aliō, aliorsum
time	quandō	quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam	tum, tunc		ōlim	cum, quandō	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	simul	aliās
exact time	quota hora		ea/ista hora	hac hora	illa hora	quota hora	quotacumque hora	eadem hora	altera/alia hora
repetition	quotiēns	aliquotiēns	totiēns			quotiēns	quotiēnscumque
multiplication	quotuplex		totuplex			quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare

Descendants

• Old Portuguese: tan
• Portuguese: tam, tão
• Spanish: tamaño, tan

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
    

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Latvian

Pronoun

tam

1. to that; dative singular masculine form of tas

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tam]

Adverb

tam

1. there (in that place)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

tam

1. Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tam

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

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

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temme

References

• “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

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

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temja, temje

References

• “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Adverb

tam

1. as (comparative)

Coordinate terms

• plu
• min

See also

• kam

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Old English

Alternative forms

• tom

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Declension

Declension of tam — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tam	tamu, tamo	tam
Accusative	tamne	tame	tam
Genitive	tames	tamre	tames
Dative	tamum	tamre	tamum
Instrumental	tame	tamre	tame
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tame	tama, tame	tamu, tamo
Accusative	tame	tama, tame	tamu, tamo
Genitive	tamra	tamra	tamra
Dative	tamum	tamum	tamum
Instrumental	tamum	tamum	tamum

Declension of tam — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tama	tame	tame
Accusative	taman	taman	tame
Genitive	taman	taman	taman
Dative	taman	taman	taman
Instrumental	taman	taman	taman
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	taman	taman	taman
Accusative	taman	taman	taman
Genitive	tamra, tamena	tamra, tamena	tamra, tamena
Dative	tamum	tamum	tamum
Instrumental	tamum	tamum	tamum

Descendants

• Middle English: tame, tam
  • English: tame
  • Scots: tame

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

• Audio

  (file)

Pronoun

tam

1. there

Noun

tam f

1. genitive plural of tama

Further reading

• tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of tão

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam (Cyrillic spelling там)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

Synonyms

• tamo

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/

Adverb

tam

1. there
2. thither

Synonyms

• (thither): ta

Antonyms

• (there): tu
• (thither): sem

References

• tam in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tám/

Adverb

tȁm

1. there, in that place

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

1. tame (not wild), domesticated

Declension

Inflection of tam
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	tam	tamare	tamast
Neuter singular	tamt	tamare	tamast
Plural	tama	tamare	tamast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	tame	tamare	tamaste
All	tama	tamare	tamaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Related terms

• tämja

Anagrams

• mat, mat.

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Tatar

Noun

tam

1. wall

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam

1. there

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 三 (“three”), from Middle Chinese 三 (MC sɑm).

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tam

1. (Sino-Vietnamese) three
2. third; thirdly

See also

• (native) ba

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Zazaki

Noun

tam n

1. taste

Derived terms

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