tamah

Acehnese

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambaq. Cognate with Malay tambah.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tamah/

Verb

tamah

  1. to add; to increase

Derived terms
  • meutamah
  • peutamah
  • teunamah

Etymology 2

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Noun

tamah

  1. forest that was formerly worked on or used for developments and now is left to grow back again naturally

Derived terms
  • meutamah

Afar

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taˈmah/, [tʌˈmʌh]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧mah

Pronoun

tamáh

  1. this, that (feminine; proximal to the spoken to)

Declension
Declension of tamáh
absolutive tamáh
predicative tamáha
subjective tamáh
genitive tamáh
Postpositioned forms
l-case tamáhal
k-case tamáhak
t-case tamáhat
h-case tamáhah

See also
Afar demonstrative pronouns
masculine feminine
proximal to the speaker(s) áh táh
proximal to the spoken to amáh tamáh
distal wóh tóh
very distal wóttih

References
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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