tam

Short for tam o'shanter.

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.
   • 1988 July 1, Bryan Miller, “A Gathering of Scots”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.

From the Cantonese pronunciation of 擔

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of picul, a unit of weight, particularly in Cantonese contexts.

• AMT, ATM, MTA, Mat, Mat., TMA, amt, amt., atm, mat, mat.

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

tam

1. water

• Signe Howell, Society and Cosmos: Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia (1984), page 128
• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

tam

1. teeming, full

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /tam/

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tam

1. there (in or at that place or location)
2. there (to or into that place)

• (to or into that place): zpět, zpátky

• tamní
• tamější
• tamtudy

From Old Danish tam, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

tam

1. tame

• “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Dutch *tam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

• IPA^(key): /tɑm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑm

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

1. tame, not wild
2. (figuratively) boring, unexciting, bland

• Afrikaans: tam

• mat

Borrowed from Latin tam.

• IPA^(key): /tam/

tam

1. as (in comparison), so (followed by an adj.)

• kam (“than, as, to (in comparison)”)

tam ?

1. taste

• bêtam
• bêtamî
• bêtamîtî
• bêtamtî
• bitam
• bitamî
• bitamîtî
• bitamtî
• tamandin
• tamandî
• tamdar
• tamdarî
• tamdarîtî
• tamdartî
• tamder
• tamderî
• tamderîtî
• tamdertî
• tamdêr
• tamdêrî
• tamdêrîtî
• tamdêrtî
• tamijandin
• tamijandî
• tamijiyayî
• tamijî
• tamijîn
• tamijîner
• tamijok
• tamî
• tam jê hatin
• tamker
• tam kirin
• tamkirî

tam

1. precisely, exactly

tam

1. make something level

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

From Proto-Indo-European *téh₂m, accusative of *séh₂, feminine of *só. Confer with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [tã]

tam (not comparable)

1. so, so much, to such an extent, to such a degree

   Sextus tam iratus erat ut fratrem interficere vellet

   Sextus was so angry that he wished to kill his brother.

Often coupled with quam

1. Such that "tam x, quam y" = "so x, as y"
   • Spinoza, Ethica Liber V:

     Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.

     But all things excellent are as rare as they are difficult

Often 'tips off' a subjunctive clause of result.

• quam

• tamen
• tamquam
• tandem
• tantus

• Old Portuguese: tan
• Portuguese: tam, tão
• Spanish: tamaño, tan

• tam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
    

tam

1. to that; dative singular masculine form of tas

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): [tam]

tam

1. there (in that place)

tam

1. (chiefly Northern dialect) Alternative form of þem

• “theim (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 June 2018.

From Old Norse tamr

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

• temme

• “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse tamr

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

• temja, temje

• “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tam

1. as (comparative)

• plu
• min

• kam

• tom

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

tam

1. tame

• Middle English: tam, tom, tame, tome
  • Scots: tam, tame
  • English: tame

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /tam/

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tam

1. there

• tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

tam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of tão

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

tam (Cyrillic spelling там)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

• tamo

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtam/

tam

1. there
2. thither

• (thither): ta

• (there): tu
• (thither): sem

• tam in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtám/
• Tonal orthography: tȁm

tàm

1. there, in that place

From Old Swedish tamber, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

1. tame (not wild), domesticated

• tämja

tam

1. wall

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

tam

1. there

Sino-Vietnamese word from 三 (“three”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taːm˧˧]

tam

1. (Sino-Vietnamese) three
2. third; thirdly

• ba

tam n

1. taste

• bêtam
• tamey
• tamin
• tamkar
• tam kerden
• tamser
• tam kerdış