# tm
## English
### Adverb

tm (not comparable)
* (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tomorrow.
    byee, cya tm!!
** 2021 January 28, u/ItsmeKIMOCHI4, “All in tomorrow. The collusion on the other side is absurd to point where true lessons need to be taught to these people.”, in Reddit‎, r/wallstreetbets, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:Dont worry bag holders were coming for you tm
** 2023 February 1, @marioagomez_1, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:I'm wearing this to classes tm. I'm so hyped
** 2023 November 10, @gentlemantoji, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:i drew sukuna ...👹 I'll post it tm goodnight
** 2023 November 14, u/TumbleweedTim01, “What did wmma do to Strickland, Is he that mad to headline alongside a female title fight?”, in Reddit‎, r/ufc, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:I feel like he wakes up smokes a little cheeba drinks some coffee looks at twitter and just says the most unhinged shit. Then he closes the app doesn't look at a single reply and does it all again tm

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tāmā
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tāmā
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ ㄇㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tama
*** Wade–Giles: tʻa$^1$-ma$^1$
*** Yale: tā-mā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tamha
*** Palladius: тама (tama)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰä⁵⁵ mä⁵⁵/

### Phrase

tm
* Initialism of 他媽 / 他妈 (tāmā).

## Egyptian
### Etymology

Compare with Hebrew תַּם (tam, “to be complete, finished”), Arabic تمام (tamām, “complete; completeness”).

### Pronunciation

* (proper noun): (reconstructed) IPA: /jaˈtaːmuw/ → /jaˈtaːmuw/ → /ʔaˈtaːmə/ → /ʔaˈtoːm/
* (proper noun): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA: /jaˈtaːmuw/
* (proper noun): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA: /jaˈtaːmuw/
* (proper noun): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA: /ʔaˈtaːmə/
* (proper noun): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA: /ʔaˈtoːm/
* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /tɛm/
** Conventional anglicization: tem

### Verb

2-lit.
* (intransitive) to be complete
* (transitive) to complete, to finish
* (catenative, with a verb in the negatival complement) to not do, to not be

#### Alternative forms

| tm | tm | tm |
| | in the sense ‘not be, not do’ |

#### Derived terms

* tꜣ-tmw

### Noun

m
* everything, totality, completion

#### Derived terms

* nb-tm

### Proper noun

m
* the god Atum

#### Alternative forms

| tm | jtm | tmw | jtm |
| [Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [Late Period] |
Based on the forms jtm and tmw, some authors interpret the god’s name as jtmw, a noun of action derived from the verb tm (“to finish, complete”), thus literally meaning ‘the finisher’; however, the most common writings of the name only explicitly show the consonants tm.

#### Derived terms

* pr-tm
* ḥr-m-ꜣḫt-ḫprj-rꜥ-tm

### References

* Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 147, 174, 220.
* ↑ Schenkel, Wolfgang (2005) “Die ägyptische Nominalbildungslehre und die Realität der hieroglyphischen Graphien der Sargtexte: Die Nominalbildungsklassen A I 5 und A I 6” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 13, page 147

## Turkish
### Phrase

tm
* (text messaging) Initialism of tamam (“okay”).