Tama
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Tama may mean:
Languages
[edit]- Tama language, the language of the Sudanese Tama people
- Tama languages, a language family of northern Papua New Guinea
Music
[edit]- Tama Drums, a Japanese brand manufactured by Hoshino Gakki
- Tama (percussion), a type of talking drum from West Africa
- "Tama", a song by Mory Kanté
People
[edit]- Tama Hochbaum (born 1953), American artist and photographer
- Tama people, an ethnic group in Chad and Sudan
- La Tama, previously Ocute, a Native American people of the U.S. state of Georgia
- Tama, the ring name of professional wrestler Sam Fatu
- Tama, clan of junior Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 70–115,000
- Tama people (Colombia), an indigenous group of Colombia
Places
[edit]- Tama, Iowa, United States
- Tama County, Iowa, United States
- Tama, Niger
- Tama, La Rioja, Argentina
- Tama, Musashi (多摩郡), an old district in Musashi Province, Japan
- Tama Area (多摩地域), the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture
- Tama Cemetery, the largest municipal cemetery in Japan
- Tama Hills, an expanse of hills stretching along the southwestern flank of Tokyo
- Tama New Town, a residential development in the Tama Hills
- Tama, Tokyo (多摩市), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo
- Nishitama, Tokyo (西多摩郡), a district in Tokyo
- Tama River (多摩川), a river in Japan
- Tama-ku, Kawasaki (多摩区), a ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Tama Area (多摩地域), the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture
- Tama River, a tributary of the Koshi River in Nepal
- Tama, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
- Tama, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Religion
[edit]- Tama (魂), Shinto term for reverence for elders
- Tama (votive), a votive deposit or ex-voto used in the Eastern Orthodox Churches
- Tama-nui-te-rā, the personification of the Sun in Māori mythology
Fiction
[edit]- Tama, the reactivated form of the android Dark Washu in the manga No Need for Tenchi
- Tama-chan ("full name" Onsen Tamago), a pet turtle character in the manga Love Hina
- Tama (novel), by Winnifred Eaton
- TAMA (video game), a Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn launch game only released in Japan
- Tama Sakai, a character from the anime and manga D-Frag
- The Children of Tama, a civilization encountered in the episode Darmok from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Tama (Tamamohime), a talking fox-like character in the video game World of Final Fantasy
Other uses
[edit]- Tama (cat), a cat who was a stationmaster of a Japanese railway station
- TAMA 300, a gravitational wave detector
- Tama Art University, a Japanese private art school
- Tama edwardsi, a genus of spiders
- Tama Toshi Monorail Line (多摩都市モノレール線), in Tokyo, Japan
- Tama Electric Car Company, a car manufacturer which became Prince Motor Company
- Tama-chan, an Arctic seal living in the Tokyo area which became a national celebrity in 2002
- 1089 Tama (多摩), an asteroid
- Armenian draughts
- Japanese cruiser Tama, a Japanese light cruiser during World War II
- Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity
- A wooden spool for making kumihimo braids with a Marudai
- An abbreviation of the name of the virtual pet Tamagotchi by Bandai
- An abbreviation for National Outline Plan