# tamu
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtamu/ [ˈtʌmʊ]
* Hyphenation: ta‧mu

### Noun

támu m
* taste

## Balinese
### Romanization

tamu
* Romanization of ᬢᬫᬸ

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay tamu (“guest, visitor”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of temu (“to meet”). Compare to Old Javanese tamu (“guest, visitor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tamu]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ta‧mu

### Noun

tamu (plural tamu-tamu)
* guest, visitor

#### Affixed terms

* bertamu
* ketamuan
* menamu
* menamui
* pramutamu
* tetamu

#### Compounds

* tamu agung
* tamu di negeri sendiri
* tamu negara

#### Related terms

* têmu

### Further reading

* “tamu” 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.

## Javanese
### Romanization

tamu
* Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tamu (“turmeric: Curcuma zedoaria”). Compare Tagalog tamo and Balinese ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /təˈmu/ [təˈmu]
* Hyphenation: ta‧mu

### Noun

tamu
* zedoary; white turmeric (Curcuma zedoaria)

#### See also

* ange

### Further reading

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tamu₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tamu; compare Apalaí tamu, Trió tamu, Wayana tamu, Waiwai taam, Pemon tamo, Ye'kwana tamu, Yao (South America) Tamoucum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [taːm(u)]

### Noun

tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)
* grandfather

#### Derived terms

* isamùpo
* tamùpo
* tamùpòko
* tamùpota
* tamùsano
* tamusi

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “támusi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 454; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 443

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (“guest, visitor”). Doublet of tĕmu (“to meet”).

### Noun

tamu
* guest

#### Alternative forms

* tamuy

#### Derived terms

* panamu
* patamwan
* tatamu
* tinamu

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦠꦩꦸ (tamu)
* → Balinese: ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

tamu (Cyrillic spelling таму)
* accusative singular of tama

## Swahili
### Etymology

Found only in the Sabaki languages, likely a very early borrowing from Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm, “taste”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

-tamu (declinable)
* sweet (having a pleasant taste)
* delicious

#### Derived terms

* utamu

## Tausug
### Alternative forms

* ta'mu (Gimbahanun)

### Etymology

Compare Aklanon tam-o.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /tamu/ [t̪aˈmu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: ta‧mu

### Noun

tamu (Sulat Sūg spelling تَمُ)
* rice wrapped and boiled in a casing made of woven coconut leaves; ketupat

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طامو (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tamu (“hell”).
Cognate with Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”), Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq, “hell”), Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”).

### Noun

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)
* (obsolete) hell (place where sinners go after death)
    Synonym: cehennem
    Antonyms: cennet, (obsolete) uçmak

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
tamu
tamular
definite accusative
tamuyu
tamuları
dative
tamuya
tamulara
locative
tamuda
tamularda
ablative
tamudan
tamulardan
genitive
tamunun
tamuların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
tamum
tamularım
2nd singular
tamun
tamuların
3rd singular
tamusu
tamuları
1st plural
tamumuz
tamularımız
2nd plural
tamunuz
tamularınız
3rd plural
tamuları
tamuları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
tamumu
tamularımı
2nd singular
tamunu
tamularını
3rd singular
tamusunu
tamularını
1st plural
tamumuzu
tamularımızı
2nd plural
tamunuzu
tamularınızı
3rd plural
tamularını
tamularını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
tamuma
tamularıma
2nd singular
tamuna
tamularına
3rd singular
tamusuna
tamularına
1st plural
tamumuza
tamularımıza
2nd plural
tamunuza
tamularınıza
3rd plural
tamularına
tamularına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
tamumda
tamularımda
2nd singular
tamunda
tamularında
3rd singular
tamusunda
tamularında
1st plural
tamumuzda
tamularımızda
2nd plural
tamunuzda
tamularınızda
3rd plural
tamularında
tamularında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
tamumdan
tamularımdan
2nd singular
tamundan
tamularından
3rd singular
tamusundan
tamularından
1st plural
tamumuzdan
tamularımızdan
2nd plural
tamunuzdan
tamularınızdan
3rd plural
tamularından
tamularından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
tamumun
tamularımın
2nd singular
tamunun
tamularının
3rd singular
tamusunun
tamularının
1st plural
tamumuzun
tamularımızın
2nd plural
tamunuzun
tamularınızın
3rd plural
tamularının
tamularının :

### Further reading

* “tamu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “tamu”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tamu (“grandfather”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tamu]

### Noun

tamu (obligatorily possessed; possessed tamudu)
* grandfather

#### Usage notes

This noun has a suppletive first-person possessed form, kooko.

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 112
* Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
* Hall, Katherine (2007) “-tamū-du”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
* Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70, 74: “taamudu”

## Yogad
### Noun

tamu
* direction