tamah

Acehnese

Etymology 1

From Proto-Chamic *tamah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambaq. Cognate with Malay tambah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamah/

Verb

tamah

1. to add; to increase

Derived terms

• meutamah
• peutamah
• teunamah

Etymology 2

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Noun

tamah

1. forest that was formerly worked on or used for developments and now is left to grow back again naturally

Derived terms

• meutamah

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈmah/ [tʌˈmʌh]
• Hyphenation: ta‧mah

Pronoun

tamáh

1. this, that (feminine; proximal to the spoken to)

Declension

Declension of tamáh
absolutive	tamáh
predicative	tamáha
subjective	tamáh
genitive	tamáh
Postpositioned forms l-case tamáhal k-case tamáhak t-case tamáhat h-case tamáhah

See also

Afar demonstrative pronouns

	masculine	feminine
proximal to the speaker(s)	áh	táh
proximal to the spoken to	amáh	tamáh
distal	wóh	tóh
very distal	wóttih

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)