tamu

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌmu/
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

támu m 

1. taste

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tamu (“guest, visitor”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of temu (“to meet”). Compare to Old Javanese tamu (“guest, visitor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tamu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

tamu (plural tamu-tamu, first-person possessive tamuku, second-person possessive tamumu, third-person possessive tamunya)

1. guest, visitor.

Affixed terms

• bertamu
• ketamuan
• menamu
• menamui
• pramutamu
• tetamu

 

Compounds

• tamu agung
• tamu di negeri sendiri
• tamu negara

 

Related terms

• têmu

 

Further reading

• “tamu” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Javanese

Romanization

tamu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

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Maquiritari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

Noun

tamu (possessed tamudu)

1. grandfather

Usage notes

This noun has a suppletive first-person possessed form, kooko.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “-tamū-du”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 70, 74

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Old Javanese

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of tĕmu (“to meet”).

Noun

tamu

1. guest

Alternative forms

• tamuy

Derived terms

• panamu
• patamwan
• tatamu
• tinamu

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦠꦩꦸ (tamu)
• → Balinese: ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu)

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Swahili

Etymology

Found only in the Sabaki languages, likely a very early borrowing from Arabic طَعْم‎ (ṭaʿm, “taste”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Adjective

-tamu (declinable)

1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)

Inflection

Inflected forms of -tamu

Noun class	singular	plural
M-wa class	mtamu	watamu
M-mi class	mtamu	mitamu
Ma class	tamu	matamu
Ki-vi class	kitamu	vitamu
N class	tamu	tamu
U class	mtamu	tamu
Pa class	patamu	patamu
Ku class	kutamu	kutamu
Mu class	mutamu	mutamu

Derived terms

• utamu

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طامو‎ (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو‎ (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tam- (“to burn, kindle, ignite”).

Cognate with Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”), Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”), Uyghur تامۇق‎ (tamuq, “hell”), Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”).

Noun

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

1. hell (where sinners go)

Synonyms

• cehennem

Antonyms

• uçmak (“heaven”)

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Yogad

Noun

tamu

1. direction