tamis

• tammy

Borrowed from French tamis, from Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Medieval Latin tamisium, of unclear origin.

Cognate with Old High German zemis (dialectal German Zims), Dutch teems (“sieve”), West Frisian teams, tiems, German Low German Teemse, Teems, Old English temes, Old English temesian (“to sieve; sift”). Doublet of temse.

• Homophone: tammy

tamis (countable and uncountable, plural tamises)

1. (cooking) A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth.
2. The cloth itself; a tammy.

• food mill
• chinois

• tammy

• tamis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• amits, maist

From Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Late Latin tamisium, from Frankish *tamisu (“sieve, screen”). Cognate with English temse. Compare also regional Italian tamiso.

• IPA^(key): /ta.mi/
• Hyphenation: ta‧mis

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tamis m (plural tamis)

1. sieve, riddle

   Déplacez le tamis de gauche à droite 30 fois, en faisant un mouvement de tamisage.

   Move the sieves from left to right 30 times using a sifting motion.

2. screen (mesh for filtering)

   Enlever les filtres, les tamis et les pastilles et les laver séparément.

   Remove and clean filters, screens and nozzle tips separately.

• tamiser

• → English: tamis
• → Spanish: tamiz

• “tamis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tam-is – dialectal or obsolete

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taq(ə)mis. Compare Cebuano tam-is and Malay manis.

• Hyphenation: ta‧mís
• IPA^(key): /taˈmis/, [tɐˈmis]

tamís

1. sweetness; sweet taste

   Synonym: katamisan

2. pleasure; pleasurable experience

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taq(ə)mis.

tamis

1. taste

tamis

1. to taste