тама

See also: тьма and Appendix:Variations of "tama"

Abaza

Etymology

From Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza *a-tʼama.

Noun

тама • (tama)

1. apricot

Russian

Adverb

та́ма • (táma)

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) Alternative form of там (tam, “there”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tьma, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *timāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-. Cognate with Bulgarian тъма (tǎma) and Russian тьма (tʹma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎːma/
• Hyphenation: та‧ма

Noun

та́ма f (Latin spelling táma)

1. darkness

Declension

Declension of тама

	singular	plural
nominative	тама	таме
genitive	таме	тама
dative	тами	тамама
accusative	таму	таме
vocative	тамо	таме
locative	тами	тамама
instrumental	тамом	тамама

Further reading

• “тама”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamɐ]

Etymology 1

Adverb

та́ма • (táma)

1. (dated or dialectal) Alternative form of там (tam, “there”)

Etymology 2

Noun

та́ма • (táma) f inan (genitive та́ми, nominative plural та́ми, genitive plural там)

1. Dated form of да́мба (dámba, “dam”).

Declension

Declension of та́ма (inan hard fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	та́ма táma	та́ми támy
genitive	та́ми támy	там tam
dative	та́мі támi	та́мам támam
accusative	та́му támu	та́ми támy
instrumental	та́мою támoju	та́мами támamy
locative	та́мі támi	та́мах támax
vocative	та́мо támo	та́ми támy

Further reading

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “та́ма”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka