tamu
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʌmu/
- Hyphenation: ta‧mu
Noun
támu m
- taste
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)
- 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 Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
tamu
- Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tamu]
Noun
tamu (possessed tamudu)
- 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, 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
Old Javanese
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of tĕmu (“to meet”).
Noun
tamu
- guest
Alternative forms
- tamuy
Derived terms
- panamu
- patamwan
- tatamu
- tinamu
Descendants
- Javanese: ꦠꦩꦸ (tamu)
- → Balinese: ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu)
Swahili
Etymology
Found only in the Sabaki languages, likely a very early borrowing from Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm, “taste”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective
-tamu (declinable)
- sweet (having a pleasant taste)
Inflection
| 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
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish طامو (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tam- (“to burn, kindle, ignite”).
Cognate withTatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”),Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”),Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq, “hell”),Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”).
Noun
tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)
- (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)
Synonyms
- cehennem
Antonyms
- uçmak (“heaven”)
Yogad
Noun
tamu
- direction