different between tamis vs tamas

English

Alternative forms

• tammy

Etymology

Borrowed from French tamis, from Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Medieval Latin tamisium, from Frankish *tamis, *tamusi, from Proto-Germanic *tamus?? (“sieve; strainer; sile”). Cognate with Old High German zemis (dialectal German Zims), Dutch teems (“sieve”), West Frisian teams, tiems, German Low German Teemse, Teems, Old English temes, Old English temesian (“to sieve; sift”). Doublet of temse.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tammy

Noun

tamis (countable and uncountable, plural tamises)

1. A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth
2. The cloth itself; tammy.

Coordinate terms

• food mill
• chinois

Related terms

• tammy

Further reading

• tamis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• amits, maist

French

Etymology

From Late Latin tamisium, itself from Gaulish tamesium. Compare regional Italian tamiso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.mi/
• Hyphenation: ta?mis

Noun

tamis m (plural tamis)

1. sieve, riddle

2. screen (mesh for filtering)

Derived terms

• tamiser

Descendants

• ? English: tamis
• ? Spanish: tamiz

Further reading

• “tamis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tam-is (obsolete, now chiefly Batangas)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taq(?)mis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?mís
• IPA^(key): /ta?mis/, [t??mis]

Noun

tamís

1. sweetness

Derived terms

• matamis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ???? (támas, “darkness”)

Noun

tamas (uncountable)

1. One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.

Derived terms

• tamasic

Anagrams

• maats, masta, tsama

Taivoan

Noun

tamas

1. elder