tm

See also: TM, Tm, .tm, t/m, and ™

English

Adverb

tm (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tomorrow.

   byee, cya tm!!

   • 2021 January 28, u/ItsmeKIMOCHI4, “All in tomorrow. The collusion on the other side is absurd to point where true lessons need to be taught to these people.”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/wallstreetbets, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:

     Dont worry bag holders were coming for you tm

   • 2023 February 1, @marioagomez_1, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 3 April 2024:

     I'm wearing this to classes tm. I'm so hyped

   • 2023 November 10, @gentlemantoji, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 3 April 2024:

     i drew sukuna ...👹 I'll post it tm goodnight

   • 2023 November 14, u/TumbleweedTim01, “What did wmma do to Strickland, Is he that mad to headline alongside a female title fight?”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/ufc, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:

     I feel like he wakes up smokes a little cheeba drinks some coffee looks at twitter and just says the most unhinged shit. Then he closes the app doesn't look at a single reply and does it all again tm

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāmā

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāmā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tama
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹-ma¹
    • Yale: tā-mā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tamha
    • Palladius: тама (tama)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵ mä⁵⁵/

Phrase

tm

1. initialism of 他媽 / 他妈 (tāmā)

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare with Hebrew תַּם (tam, “to be complete, finished”), Arabic تمام (tamām, “complete; completeness”).

Pronunciation

 

• (proper noun): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaˈtaːmuw/ → /jaˈtaːmuw/ → /ʔaˈtaːmə/ → /ʔaˈtoːm/

• (proper noun): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈtaːmuw/
• (proper noun): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈtaːmuw/
• (proper noun): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈtaːmə/
• (proper noun): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈtoːm/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: tem

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be complete
2. (transitive) to complete, to finish
3. (catenative, with a verb in the negatival complement) to not do, to not be

Inflection

Conjugation of tm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: tm, geminated stem: tmm

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural tm tmw, tm tmt tm, j.tm tm, j.tm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 tm ḥr tm m tm r tm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect tm.n tmw, tm consecutive tm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative tmt perfective3 tm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 tm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective tm, j.tm1 active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 tm tmm potentialis1 tm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive tm, j.tm1 active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect tm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective tm active + .tj1, .tw2 tm tmm, tmmj6, tm2, tmw2 5, tmy2 5 imperfective j.tm1, tm, tmy, tmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 j.tm1, j.tmw1 5, tm, tmj6, tmy6 tm, tmw5 prospective tm, tmtj7 — tmtj4, tmt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tm  

tm	tm	tm
	in the sense ‘not be, not do’

Derived terms

• tꜣ-tmw

Noun

 m

1. everything, totality, completion

Inflection

Declension of tm (masculine)

singular	tm
dual	tmwj
plural	tmw

Derived terms

• nb-tm

Proper noun

 m

1. the god Atum

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tm  

tm	jtm	tmw	jtm
[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]

Based on the forms jtm and tmw, some authors interpret the god’s name as jtmw, a noun of action derived from the verb tm (“to finish, complete”), thus literally meaning ‘the finisher’; however, the most common writings of the name only explicitly show the consonants tm.

Derived terms

• pr-tm
• ḥr-m-ꜣḫt-ḫprj-rꜥ-tm

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 147, 174, 220.

Turkish

Phrase

tm

1. (text messaging) initialism of tamam (“okay”)