tima

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tima"

Bangi

Verb

tima

1. to dig

Esperanto

Etymology

From timi +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ti‧ma

Adjective

tima (accusative singular timan, plural timaj, accusative plural timajn)

1. fearful

Derived terms

• maltima (“fearless”)

Further reading

• “tima”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “tima”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Jamamadí

Adjective

tima

1. (Banawá) upriver

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Lingala

Etymology

Borrowed from Bangi tima.

Verb

-tima (infinitive kotima)

1. to dig

Malay

Etymology

Syncopic form of terima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/ [ˈt̪i.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ma

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈtimə/ [ˈt̪i.mə]
  • Rhymes: -mə

Verb

tima

1. (colloquial) alternative form of terima.

References

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[1], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

Middle English

Noun

tima

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of tyme (“time”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• tīema, tȳma

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Cognate with Old High German *zīmo, Old Norse tími. Related to Old English tīd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.mɑ/

Noun

tīma m

1. a time, hour (period of time)

   On hwelcne tīman sċealt þū tō morgne onwæcnan?

   What time do you have to wake up tomorrow?

   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Hit is tīma tō erienne.

     It's time to plough.

   • c. 897, Alfred the Great, translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care

     Nū ūs is tīma þæt wē onwæcnen of slǣpe.

     Now it's time for us to wake up from our sleep.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"

     Þā cleopode hē þā tungolwītegan on sundorsprǣċe and ġeornlīċe hīe befrugnon on hwelcne tīman hīe ǣrest þone steorran ġesāwen.

     He summoned the astrologers to private conversation and anxiously asked them at what time they first saw the star.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Ġelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes.

     Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.

2. an age (of the world), era

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	tīma	tīman
accusative	tīman	tīman
genitive	tīman	tīmena
dative	tīman	tīmum

Synonyms

• tīd

Derived terms

• ǣfentīma
• dæġtīma
• ġetīmian
• lenctentīma
• mǣrsungtīma
• nōntīma
• sǣdtīma
• tīmlīċe
• underntīma

Descendants

• Middle English: tyme, teme, teyme, tim, time, tym, tima, timæ, tyma (Early Middle English)
  • English: time (see there for further descendants)

    Ottawa Valley: teim

  • Middle Scots: tyme
    • Scots: time, teime, tim
  • Yola: deemes (plural)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tima (Cyrillic spelling тима)

1. genitive singular of tim

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/ [ˈt̪i.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ti‧ma

Verb

tima

1. inflection of timar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish

Verb

tima (present timar, preterite timade, supine timat, imperative tima)

1. (archaic) to happen

   Synonym: ske

Conjugation

Conjugation of tima (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	tima		timas
supine	timat		timats
imperative	tima		—
imper. plural1	timen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	timar	timade	timas	timades
ind. plural1	tima	timade	timas	timades
subjunctive2	time	timade	times	timades
present participle		timande
past participle		timad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• “tima”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Thao

Pronoun

tima

1. (interrogative) who