tama तम – superlative suffix

Original text · English · substantive masculine

1. tama, as, m. darkness &c., = tamas in its various meanings; also = tamāla; (ā), f. night, = tamāla, Phyllanthus Emblica; (am), n. darkness, gloom; the point of the foot.

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

tama 2 . tama (for 1. see under rt. tam, col. 1), a Taddhita affix, the termination of the superlative degree, used also as an independent word in the sense of iṣṭa-tama, most desired, and sometimes added adverbially in the form tamām; [cf. tāra- tamya.]

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tama 1〉 Endung des superl. Wird KIR. 2,14 als selbständiges Wort in der Bed. von iṣṭatama angewendet. tamām häufig als Steigerung an advv. gefügt; vgl. tāratamya. — 2〉 m. P. 7,3,34, Sch. a〉 = tamas in seinen verschiedenen Bedd. RĀYAM._zu_AK. 1,1,4,7. (= tamas 4.). satyaṃ vakṣyanti te 'kasmādasatyanīrasaṃ tamā iti varṇavivekaḥ . tathā ca jyotiṣe horāyām . bhṛgutamabudhajīvairiti . rāhau (aber auch im vorhergehenden Beispiele ist tama wohl = rāhu) yathā kitavastamasyeti varāhaḥ . UJJVAL._zu_UṆĀDIS. 4,188. — b〉 = tamāla 1. ŚABDAC._im_ŚKDR. — 3〉 f. tamā a〉 Nacht TRIK. 1,1,105. H. 142. — b〉 = tamāla 1. ŚABDAC._im_ŚKDR. Phyllanthus emblica (vgl. tamakā u. s. w.) NIGH. PR. — 4〉 n. a〉 = tamas Finsterniss ŚABDAR._im_ŚKDR. — b〉 Fussspitze ŚABDAC._im_ŚKDR.

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tama — 1〉 Adj. am meisten erwünscht. — 2〉 m. — a〉 = tamas. Zu belegen in der Bed. Rāhu. — b〉 *Xanthochymus pictorius. — c〉 *Phyllanthus emblica. — 3〉 *f. ā — a〉 Nacht RĀJAN. 21,43. — b〉 = 2〉b〉. — 4〉 *n. — a〉 Finsterniss. — b〉 Fussspitze.

Original text · English · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tamaṃ 1 Darkness. 2 The tip of the foot. — maḥ 1 An epithet of Rāhu. 2 The Tamāla tree. 3 Darkness.

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

tama A Taddhita affix of the superlative degree applied to nouns, adjectives, and also to verbs and indeclinables in which latter case it is changed to tamām; aśva˚ Pt. 5. ‘the best horse’; suhṛttama Mu. 1; so pacatitamām. It is also added to pronouns in the sense of ‘one of many’; e. g. katama, yatama, tatama &c.

Original text · French · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tama tama m. n. cf. tamas.