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English

Etymology

From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

tribe (plural tribes)

1. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
5. The collective noun for various animals.
6. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Derived terms

• tribal
• tribally
• tribelet

Translations

Verb

tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)

1. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
   • 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library

     Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

See also

• ethnic
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trybe, tribu

Etymology

From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/

Noun

tribe (plural tribus)

1. One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2. (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
3. (rare) A league or grouping.

Descendants

• English: tribe

References

• “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.

English

Etymology 1

Short for tam o'shanter.

Noun

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.

Etymology 2

From the Cantonese pronunciation of ?

Noun

tam (plural tams)

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

Anagrams

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

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (t?mm).

Adverb

tam

1. (of a task to be completed) done; finished; complete

2. completely, really

Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (?a?m).

Noun

tam (definite accusative tam?, plural tamlar)

1. taste

   Synonym: dad

Declension

Further reading

• “tam” in Obastan.com.

Chewong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/

Noun

tam

1. water

References

• Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. p. 128.
• Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmoor, U. (eds.). World Loanword Database.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

tam

1. teeming, full

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

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

Antonyms

• (to or into that place): zp?t, zpátky

Derived terms

• tamní
• tam?jší
• tamtudy

Further reading

• tam in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tam in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Inflection

References

• “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

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

Inflection

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tam

Anagrams

• mat

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

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

See also

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

Kabyle

Etymology

From Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Numeral

tam (feminine tamet)

1. eight

   Synonym: tmanya

Kashubian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronoun

tam

1. there

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Verb

tam

1. to make something level

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *téh?m, accusative of *séh?, feminine of *só. Confer with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t?ä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t??m]

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

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

Usage notes

Often coupled with quam

1. Such that "tam x, quam y" = "so x, as y"

Often "tips off" a subjunctive clause of result.

Derived terms

• tamen
• tamquam
• tandem
• tantus

Related terms

Descendants

• French: tant
• Italian: tanto
• Old Portuguese: tan
• Portuguese: tam, tão
• Spanish: tamaño, tan

References

• 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?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Pronoun

tam

1. to that; dative singular masculine form of tas

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tam]

Adverb

tam

1. there (in that place)

Further reading

• tam in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• tam in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

tam

1. Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tam

1. (Northern, after d or t) Alternative form of þem (“them”)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (?a?m).

Noun

tam ?

1. taste

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???m]

Adverb

tam

1. precisely, exactly

Etymology 3

From Old Anatolian Turkish ???? (d?am).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??m]

Noun

tam ?

1. house, building, structure

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

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

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temme

References

• “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

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

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temja, temje

References

• “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• tom

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Declension

Descendants

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronoun

tam

1. there

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tam f

1. genitive plural of tama

Further reading

• tam in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of tão

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

Synonyms

• tamo

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tam/

Adverb

tam

1. there
2. thither

Synonyms

• (thither): ta

Antonyms

• (there): tu
• (thither): sem

References

• tam in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tám/

Adverb

t?m

1. there, in that place

Further reading

• “tam”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

1. tame (not wild), domesticated

Declension

Related terms

• tämja

Anagrams

• mat, mat.

Tatar

Noun

tam

1. wall

Turkish

Adjective

tam (comparative daha tam, superlative en tam)

1. complete, absolute

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam

1. there

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]

Etymology 1

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

Numeral

tam

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

See also

• (native) ba

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *k-sa?m. Cognate with Thavung sa?m¹, Kuy s??m, Khmu [Cuang] h??m.

The term was probably already archaic by the time it started to be written down and was only attested in the compound ????? (anh tam, “elder brother and younger sibling”).

Numeral

tam • (?)

1. (obsolete) younger sibling

Zazaki

Noun

tam n

1. taste

Derived terms

• bêtam
• tamey
• tamin
• tamkar
• tam kerden
• tamser
• tam kerd??