Tama may mean:

Languages

Tama language Tama, or Damut, is the primary language spoken by the Tama people in Ouaddai, eastern Chad and in Darfur, western Sudan. It is a member of the Taman language family. Miisiirii is often considered a dialect, though it is not particularly close. ...

, the language of the Sudanese Tama people *

Tama languages The Tama languages are a small family of three clusters of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea, spoken just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province. They are classified as subgroup of the Sepik languages. ''Tama' ...

, a language family of northern Papua New Guinea

Music

Tama Drums Tama Drums, (from Japanese: (Kanji), (Kana), read as ) is a brand of drum kits and hardware manufactured and marketed by the Japanese musical instrument company, Hoshino Gakki. Tama's research and development of products, along with producti ...

, a Japanese brand manufactured by Hoshino Gakki *

Tama (percussion) The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to change the pitc ...

, a type of talking drum from West Africa * "Tama", a song by

Mory Kanté Mory Kanté (29 March 195022 May 2020) was a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. The ...

People

* Tama Hochbaum (born 1953), American artist and photographer *

Tama people Tama are a non-Arab, African ethnic group of people who live in eastern Chad and western Sudan. They speak Tama, a Nilo-Saharan language. The population is 200,000–300,000 people and they practice Islam. Many Tama are subsistence farmers wh ...

, an ethnic group in Chad and Sudan *

La Tama Ocute, later known as Altamaha or La Tama and sometimes known conventionally as the Oconee province, was a Native American paramount chiefdom in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Georgia in the 16th and 17th centuries. Centered in the Ocon ...

, previously Ocute, a Native American people of the U.S. state of Georgia * Tama, the ring name of professional wrestler

Sam Fatu Samuel Larry Anoa'i Fatu (born October 11, 1965) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names The Tonga Kid and Tama and with World Championship Wrest ...

* Tama, clan of junior Kazakh

Jüz A ''zhuz'' ( kz, ٴجۇز , Жүз, translit=Jüz, , also translated as " horde") is one of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kypchak Plain area that covers much of the contemporary Kazakhstan. It represents the main tribal d ...

"horde", numbering ca. 70–115,000 *

Tama people (Colombia) Tama are a non-Arab, African ethnic group of people who live in eastern Chad and western Sudan. They speak Tama, a Nilo-Saharan language. The population is 200,000–300,000 people and they practice Islam. Many Tama are subsistence farmers who ...

, an indigenous group of Colombia

Places

Tama, Iowa Tama is a city in Tama County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,130 at the time of the 2020 census. Tama is situated two miles south of Toledo, the county seat. The two towns are close enough to have nearly grown together over the years ...

, United States *

Tama County, Iowa Tama County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,135. Its county seat is Toledo. The county was formed on February 17, 1843 and named for Taimah, a leader of the Meskwaki Indians. Geog ...

, United States *

Tama, Niger Tama, Niger is a village and rural commune in Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languages

Tama, La Rioja Tama (La Rioja) is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argen ...

, Argentina * Tama, Musashi (), an old district in

Musashi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami ...

, Japan **

Tama Area Western Tokyo, also known as the , or , in the Tokyo Metropolis consists of 30 ordinary municipalities (cities (市 shi), towns (町 machi) and one village (村 mura)), unlike the eastern part which consists of 23 special wards. Before it wa ...

(), the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture ***

Tama Cemetery in Tokyo is the largest municipal cemetery in Japan. It is split between the cities of Fuchu and Koganei within the Tokyo Metropolis. First established in April 1923 as , it was redesignated Tama Cemetery in 1935. It is one of the largest gree ...

, the largest municipal cemetery in Japan ***

Tama Hills is an area of hills stretching across southwest Tokyo and northeast Kanagawa Prefecture in the Kantō Plain on Honshū, Japan. Its total area is approximately 300 km2. The Tama River marks its northeastern boundary. The Tama Hills border the ...

, an expanse of hills stretching along the southwestern flank of Tokyo ****

Tama New Town is a large residential development, straddling the municipalities of Hachiōji, Tama, Inagi and Machida cities, in Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a new town in 1965. It is approximately long stretching east-west, and between and wide, l ...

, a residential development in the Tama Hills ***

Tama, Tokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 148,285 in 73,167 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city was . Geography Tama is located in the foot ...

(), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo ***

Nishitama, Tokyo is a district located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It comprises the following three towns and a village: * Hinode * Mizuho *Okutama *Hinohara Historically, the cities of Ōme, Fussa, Hamura, and Akiruno were part of Nishitama District but ...

(), a district in Tokyo ***

Tama River The is a major river in Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Tokyo Prefectures on Honshū, Japan. It is officially classified as a Class 1 river by the Japanese government. Its total length is , and the total of the river's basin area spans . The rive ...

(), a river in Japan **

Tama-ku, Kawasaki is one of the seven wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward has an estimated population of 211,221 and a population density of 10,310 persons per km². The total area is 20.49 km². Geography Tama ...

(), a ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa * Tama River, a tributary of the

Koshi River The Kosi or Koshi ( ne, कोशी, , hi, कोसी, ) is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major conflue ...

in Nepal *

Tama, Podlaskie Voivodeship Tama is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rajgród, within Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Rajgród, north-east of Grajewo, and north-west of the regional c ...

(north-east Poland) *

Tama, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Tama is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ruda Maleniecka, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Ruda Maleniecka, west of Końskie, and north-west of ...

(south-central Poland)

Religion

* Tama (),

Shinto Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintoist ...

term for reverence for elders *

Tama (votive) 300px, An Saint Paraskeva with tamata hung beside itCrete 2001. The saint holds a plate with two eyeballs on it. She is considered to be a healer of the blind. One of her visitors has left a votive offering (''tama'') depicting eyes to indicate wh ...

, a votive deposit or ex-voto used in the Eastern Orthodox Churches *

Tama-nui-te-rā In Māori mythology, Tama-nui-te-rā (Tamanuiterā) is the personification of the Sun. Etymology In the Māori language, ''Tama-nui-te-rā'' means "Great Son of the Sun". The Māori word for "sun" or "day" is ''rā'', deriving from Proto-Pol ...

, the personification of the Sun in Māori mythology

Fiction

* 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 "Darmok" is the 102nd episode of the American science fiction television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the second episode of the fifth season. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of t ...

'' from the television series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Tama (Tamamohime), a talking fox-like character in the video game ''

World of Final Fantasy ''World of Final Fantasy'' is a role-playing video game developed by Tose and published by Square Enix. It is a spin-off of the ''Final Fantasy'' franchise, featuring characters from across its mainline and supplementary entries. Initially releas ...

Other uses

Tama (cat) was a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Early life Tama was born in Kinokawa, Wakayama, and was raised with a g ...

, a cat who was a stationmaster of a Japanese railway station *

TAMA 300 TAMA 300 is a gravitational wave detector located at the Mitaka campus of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is a project of the gravitational wave studies group at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of ...

, a gravitational wave detector *

Tama Art University or is a private art university located in Tokyo, Japan. It is known as one of the top art schools in Japan. History The forerunner of Tamabi was Tama Imperial Art School (多摩帝国美術学校, Tama Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō) founded in 1935 ...

, a Japanese private art school * ''

Tama edwardsi ''Tama'' is a monotypic genus of tree trunk spiders containing the single species, ''Tama edwardsi''. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1882, and has only been found in Spain, in Portugal, and in Algeria ) , image_map ...

'', a genus of spiders *

Tama Toshi Monorail Line The , also referred to as the Tama Monorail, is a monorail system in Western Tokyo. Operated by the Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail Co., Ltd., the double tracked, 16.0 km monorail line carries passengers between the suburban cities of Higashiy ...

(), in Tokyo, Japan *

Tama Electric Car Company The Prince Motor Company ( Japanese: ) was an automobile marque from Japan which eventually merged into Nissan in 1966. It began as the Tachikawa Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of various airplanes for the Japanese Army in World War II, e.g., ...

, a car manufacturer which became Prince Motor Company *

Tama-chan is the name given to a male bearded seal which was first spotted on August 7, 2002 near Maruko Bridge on Tama River in Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently became a national celebrity in Japan. Name Tama-chan is named after the river ('' Tama'') whe ...

, an Arctic seal living in the Tokyo area which became a national celebrity in 2002 *

1089 Tama 1089 Tama, provisional designation , is an elongated Florian asteroid and synchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Japanese astronomer Okuro Oikawa at the ...

(), an asteroid * Armenian draughts * Japanese cruiser ''Tama'', a Japanese light cruiser during World War II *

Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity (TAMA) is a severe often fatal disease that presents in some patients with thymoma. It has also been referred to in the medical literature as "thymoma-associated graft-versus-host-like disease". Presen ...

* A wooden spool for making

kumihimo is a traditional Japanese artform of making braids and cords. Literally meaning "gathered threads", are made by interlacing reels of yarn, commonly silk, with the use of traditional, specialised looms – either a or a (also known as a ...

braids with a Marudai * An abbreviation of the name of the virtual pet

Tamagotchi The is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the USA on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads o ...

by Bandai * An abbreviation for

National Outline Plan A national outline plan ( he, תוכנית מתאר ארצית, ''Tokhnit Mit'ar Artzit'', abbr. תמ"א, ''Tama'') refers to a zoning and development statutory plan in a specific field on a national level in Israel. A national outline plan is mean ...