tamu

• IPA^(key): /ˈtamu/ [ˈtʌmʊ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

támu m 

1. taste

tamu

1. Romanization of ᬢᬫᬸ

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”).

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

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

1. guest, visitor.

• “tamu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tamu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tamu (“turmeric: Curcuma zedoaria”). Compare Tagalog tamo and Balinese ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu).

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

tamu

1. zedoary; white turmeric (Curcuma zedoaria)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tamu₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Cariban *tamu; compare Apalaí tamu, Trió tamu, Wayana tamu, Waiwai taam, Pemon tamo, Ye'kwana tamu, Yao (South America) Tamoucum.

• IPA^(key): [taːm(u)]

tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)

1. grandfather

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “támusi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 454; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 443

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

tamu

1. guest

• tamuy

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

tamu (Cyrillic spelling таму)

1. accusative singular of tama

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

• Audio (Kenya):

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-tamu (declinable)

1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)
2. delicious

• utamu

From Ottoman Turkish طامو (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tamu (“hell”).

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

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

1. (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)

   Synonym: cehennem

   Antonyms: cennet, (obsolete) uçmak

Inflection
Nominative	tamu
Definite accusative	tamuyu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tamu	tamular
Definite accusative	tamuyu	tamuları
Dative	tamuya	tamulara
Locative	tamuda	tamularda
Ablative	tamudan	tamulardan
Genitive	tamunun	tamuların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular tamum tamularım 2nd singular tamun tamuların 3rd singular tamusu tamuları 1st plural tamumuz tamularımız 2nd plural tamunuz tamularınız 3rd plural tamuları tamuları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular tamumu tamularımı 2nd singular tamunu tamularını 3rd singular tamusunu tamularını 1st plural tamumuzu tamularımızı 2nd plural tamunuzu tamularınızı 3rd plural tamularını tamularını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular tamuma tamularıma 2nd singular tamuna tamularına 3rd singular tamusuna tamularına 1st plural tamumuza tamularımıza 2nd plural tamunuza tamularınıza 3rd plural tamularına tamularına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular tamumda tamularımda 2nd singular tamunda tamularında 3rd singular tamusunda tamularında 1st plural tamumuzda tamularımızda 2nd plural tamunuzda tamularınızda 3rd plural tamularında tamularında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular tamumdan tamularımdan 2nd singular tamundan tamularından 3rd singular tamusundan tamularından 1st plural tamumuzdan tamularımızdan 2nd plural tamunuzdan tamularınızdan 3rd plural tamularından tamularından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular tamumun tamularımın 2nd singular tamunun tamularının 3rd singular tamusunun tamularının 1st plural tamumuzun tamularımızın 2nd plural tamunuzun tamularınızın 3rd plural tamularının tamularının

• “tamu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “tamu”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tamu
Brazilian standard	tamu
New Tribes	tamu

From Proto-Cariban *tamu (“grandfather”).

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

tamu (obligatorily possessed; possessed tamudu)

1. grandfather

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

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon, page 112
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-tamū-du”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], 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, pages 62–65, 70, 74: “taamudu”

tamu

1. direction