# nama
## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

From Malay nama.

### Noun

nama
* name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

## Anguthimri
### Noun

nama
* (Mpakwithi) rough-bark tea tree

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

## Central Huasteca Nahuatl
### Adverb

nama
* now

## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

nama
* father

#### Synonyms

* hama

## Garo
### Verb

nama
* to be good

#### Antonyms

* namja

#### Derived terms

* -nam

## Hausa
### Etymology

An old Chadic borrowing (also attested as Gwandara nama, Ngas nam) from Benue-Congo, cognate to Tyap nam, Lela nəmə, Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /náː.màː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [náː.màː]

### Noun

nāmā̀ m (plural nāmū or nāmōmī, possessed form nāmàn)
* meat
* wild animal

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnama]
* Hyphenation: na‧ma

### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit नामन् (nāman, “name”).

#### Noun

nama
* name

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Austronesian *nəma (“what thing?”).

#### Pronoun

nama
* what (interrogative pronoun)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay nama (“name”), from Classical Malay nama (“name”), from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnama]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: na‧ma

### Noun

nama (plural)
* name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)
    Synonym: ngaran
* title, epithet
    Synonyms: gelar, sebutan
* fame
    Synonyms: kemasyhuran, kebaikan, keunggulan, kehormatan

#### Derived terms

* bernama
* kenamaan
* menamai
* menamakan
* penamaan
* ternama
* nama alternatif
* nama berterima
* nama botani
* nama daerah
* nama dagang
* nama daging
* nama diri
* nama domain
* nama ejekan
* nama generik
* nama ilmiah
* nama induk
* nama jenis
* nama julukan
* nama kapal
* nama kecil
* nama Latin
* nama lengkap
* nama panggilan
* nama panggilan radio
* nama panggung
* nama pedengan
* nama pengarang
* nama produk
* nama rupabumi
* nama sah
* nama samaran
* nama sistematik
* nama teknik
* nama timangan
* nama trivial
* nama tubuh
* kata nama

### Further reading

* “nama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

nama
* Rōmaji transcription of なま

## Javanese
### Romanization

nama
* Romanization of ꦤꦩ

## Latvian
### Noun

nama m
* genitive singular of nams

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnama]

### Pronoun

nama
* dative/instrumental/locative of mej

## Malay
### Etymology

From Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man) via Old Javanese, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Displaced Old Malay [script needed] (ngaran) attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription dated 900 AD, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋajan, from Proto-Austronesian *ŋajan.

### Pronunciation

* (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA: /namə/
* (Baku) IPA: /nama/
* Rhymes: -amə, -mə, -ə
* Rhymes: -a

### Noun

nama (Jawi spelling نام, plural nama-nama, informal 1st possessive namaku, 2nd possessive namamu, 3rd possessive namanya)
* name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)
* noun
    Synonym: kata nama
* title, epithet.
    Synonyms: gelaran, sebutan
* fame.
    Synonyms: kemasyhuran, kehormatan

#### Synonyms

* isim / اسم

#### Derived terms

* bernama
* kenamaan
* menamai
* menamakan
* penamaan
* ternama
* nama alternatif
* nama botani
* nama dagang
* nama daging
* nama diri
* nama domain
* nama ejekan
* nama ilmiah
* nama induk
* nama jenis
* nama jolokan
* nama julukan
* nama kapal
* nama kecil
* nama keluarga
* nama lengkap
* nama panggilan
* nama panggung
* nama pena
* nama pengarang
* nama produk
* nama sah
* nama saintifik
* nama samaran
* nama sistematik
* nama teknikal
* nama timangan
* kata nama

#### Descendants

* Ambonese Malay: nama
* Indonesian: nama

#### Further reading

* “nama” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

### References

* Grant, Anthony P. (2005) “Norm-referenced lexicostatistics and Chamic”, in Chamic and beyond studies in mainland Austronesian languages‎, Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, page 64
* Adelaar, K. Alexander (1992) Proto Malayic: the reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎, Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, page 140
* Edi Sedyawati, Ellya Iswati, Kusparyati Boedhijono, Dyah Widjajanti D. (1994) Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, →ISBN, pages 122-3
* Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “نام nama”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 138
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “نام nama”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 670
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nama”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 162

## Maori
### Etymology

Borrowed from English number.

### Noun

nama
* number, numeral
* bill, invoice

## Northern Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

### Noun

nama
* meat, flesh

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* noma

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɑ.mɑ/

### Noun

nama m (nominative plural naman)
* name
** late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
    Nū synd sume men þe nyton hwæt sē nama [Cathedra Sancti Petri] ġetacnaþ.Now there are some men who don't know what the name Cathedra Sancti Petri means.
    Rōse be ǣnigum ōðrum naman stunce swā swōte.A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
* (grammar) noun
** c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
    Ealle naman...bēoþ ġebīgede on fīf declinungum.All nouns...are inflected in five declensions.

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* bīnama (“pronoun”)
* forenama (“pronoun”)
* frēonama (“a surname”)
* nambōc (“register of names (in a book)”)
* nambred (“register of names (on a tablet)”) (German Brett)
* namcūþ (“well-known, celebrated”)
* namcūþlīċe (“by name”)
* namian (“to name, mention, nominate, appoint”)
* nammǣlum (“by name”)
* tōnama (“a surname”)

#### Related terms

* nemnian

#### Descendants

* Middle English: name, nome
** English: name
*** → Sranan Tongo: nen
*** → Japanese: ネーム
** Geordie English: nyem
** Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
** Yola: naame, name, naume

## Old Frisian
### Noun

nama m
* Alternative form of noma

#### Declension
## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀦𑀫 (Brahmi script)
* नम (Devanagari script)
* নম (Bengali script)
* නම (Sinhalese script)
* နမ or ၼမ (Burmese script)
* นม or นะมะ (Thai script)
* ᨶᨾ (Tai Tham script)
* ນມ or ນະມະ (Lao script)
* នម (Khmer script)
* 𑄚𑄟 (Chakma script)

### Verb

nama
* second-person singular imperative active of namati (“to bend”)

## Plains Cree
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naˈma/
* Hyphenation: na‧ma

### Adverb

nama (Syllabics ᓇᒪ)
* not

#### Synonyms

* namôya

### References

* H. C. Wolfart (1996) “Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language”, in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 17, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, page 438

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nâma/
* Hyphenation: na‧ma

### Pronoun

nȁma (Cyrillic spelling на̏ма)
* to us (dative plural of jȃ (“I”))
* us (locative plural of jȃ (“I”))
* us (instrumental plural of jȃ (“I”))
* (emphatic, possessive, dative) Alternative form of nam; our, of ours
    Gdje je nama auto?Where is our car?

#### Declension
## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

### Noun

nama class 9/10 (plural dinama)
* meat, flesh

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-nama (infinitive kunama)
* to be flexible

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nama :
| Positive present | -nanama |
| Subjunctive | -name |
| Negative | -nami |
| Imperative singular | nama |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunama |
| Negative | kutonama |
Imperatives :
| Singular | nama |
| Plural | nameni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunama |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -linama |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunama |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tanama |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tanama |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siname |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngenama |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singenama |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalinama |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalinama |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -menama |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshanama |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -janama |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinama |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siponama |
| Consecutive | kanama / positive subject concord + -kanama |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaname |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Swazi
### Verb

-nama
* to tease (for fun)

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Tswana
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nà.mà/

### Noun

nama (plural dinama)
* meat, flesh

## Volapük
### Noun

nama
* genitive singular of nam

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈn̪a.ma/

### Noun

nama
* flower

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Western Huasteca Nahuatl
### Adverb

nama
* now, today

## Yoruba
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hausa nāmā̀, ultimately from Benue-Congo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nã́.mà/

### Noun

námà
* beef
    Synonym: ẹran màlúù

## Yosondúa Mixtec
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Mixtec *náwą̀.

#### Noun

nama
* wall

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Mixtec *nàwą̀ʔ.

#### Noun

nama
* soap

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

nama
* (transitive) save, rescue
* (transitive) protect, defend
* (transitive) escape

### Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Adverb

nama
* when?

### References

* Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 49