tamu

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌmu/
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

támu m 

1. taste

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”).

• IPA^(key): [tamu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

tamu (plural tamu-tamu, first-person possessive tamuku, second-person possessive tamumu, third-person possessive tamunya)

1. guest, visitor.

• “tamu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

tamu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

tamu (possessed tamudu)

1. grandfather

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

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• 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, page 62–65, 70, 74

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

tamu

1. guest

• tamuy

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

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

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-tamu (declinable)

1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)

• utamu

From Ottoman Turkish طامو‎ (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو‎ (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tam- (“to burn, kindle, ignite”).

Cognate with Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, “hell”), Uzbek tamugʻ (“hell”), Uyghur تامۇق‎ (tamuq, “hell”), Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, “hell”).

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

1. (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)

• cehennem

• uçmak (“heaven”)

tamu

1. direction