Tamara

Tamara

See also: tamara, tamará, tâmara, and Tamāra

English

Etymology

Of Slavic origin, mainly from Russian Тама́ра (Tamára), name of a 12th-century saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, cognate with English biblical Tamar, from Hebrew תמר‎ (tāmār, “date palm”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɑmɑɹə/, IPA^(key): /təmæɹə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /təmɛɹə/

Proper noun

Tamara

1. A female given name, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.

Related terms

• Tamar
• nonstandard spellings: Tamarah, Tamera, Tamra
• pet forms: Tammie, Tammy

Translations

female given name

Esperanto: Tamara French: Tamara (fr) f Georgian: თამარი (tamari) German: Tamara (de) Hebrew: תמרה‎ f Latvian: Tamāra f Polish: Tamara (pl) f

Portuguese: Tamara (pt) f Russian: Тама́ра (ru) f (Tamára) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Тамара f Roman: Tamara f Spanish: Tamara (es)

Anagrams

• tarama

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamara]

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Tamara.

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Faroese

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Tamara: Tamaruson
• daughter of Tamara: Tamarudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Tamara
Accusative	Tamaru
Dative	Tamaru
Genitive	Tamaru

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German

Etymology

From Russian Тама́ра (Tamára).

Proper noun

Tamara f (genitive Tamara)

1. A female given name

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Latvian

Etymology

Variant of Tamāra.

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. A female given name.
2. A transliteration of Russian female given name Тама́ра (Tamára).

Related terms

• Tamāra

References

• Population Register of Latvia: Tamara was the only given name of 1409 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈma.ɾɐ/, /tɐ.ˈma.ɾɐ/

Proper noun

Tamara f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Tamara

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Tamara f (Cyrillic spelling Тамара)

1. A female given name

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtamara/

Proper noun

Tamara f (genitive Tamary, nominative plural Tamary) declension pattern žena

1. A female given name.

Declension

Declension of Tamara

	singular	plural
nominative	Tamara	Tamary
genitive	Tamary	Tamár
dative	Tamare	Tamarám
accusative	Tamaru	Tamary
locative	Tamare	Tamarách
instrumental	Tamarou	Tamarami

Further reading

• Tamara in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk