nama

From Malay nama.

nama

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

nama

1. (Mpakwithi) rough-bark tea tree

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

nama

1. now

nama

1. father

• hama

nama

1. to be good

• namja

• -nam

An old Chadic borrowing (also attested as Gwandara nama, Ngas nam) from Benue-Congo, cognate to Tyap nam, Lela nəmə, Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

• IPA^(key): /náː.màː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [náː.màː]

nāmā̀ m (plural nāmū or nāmōmī, possessed form nāmàn)

1. meat
2. wild animal

• IPA^(key): [ˈnama]
• Hyphenation: na‧ma

From Sanskrit नामन् (nāman, “name”).

nama

1. name

Possibly from Proto-Austronesian *nəma (“what thing?”).

nama

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

From Malay nama (“name”), from Classical Malay nama (“name”), from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

In sense of "name", false cognate of English name, Dutch naam (“name”), or Japanese 名前 (なまえ, namae, “name”), 名 (な, na), お名前 (おなまえ, o-namae, “name”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnama/ [ˈna.ma]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: na‧ma

nama (plural nama-nama)

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

   Synonym: ngaran

2. title, epithet

   Synonyms: gelar, sebutan

3. fame

   Synonyms: kemasyhuran, kebaikan, keunggulan, kehormatan, ketenaran

• “nama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

nama

1. Rōmaji transcription of なま

nama

1. romanization of ꦤꦩ

nama m

1. genitive singular of nams

• IPA^(key): [ˈnama]

nama

1. dative/instrumental/locative of mej

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *naŋ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *na-ŋ

• IPA^(key): [nə məə]

nama (second person)

1. you

• Samson Lotven, Sui Hnem Par, James C. Wamsley, Kelly Berkson (2019) “Hnaring Lutuv Swadesh List”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[1], volume 1, number 1

From Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man) via Old Javanese, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Displaced Old Malay [script needed] (ngaran) attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription dated 900 AD, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋajan, from Proto-Austronesian *ŋajan.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈnamə/ [ˈna.mə]
  • Rhymes: -amə, -ə
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈnama/ [ˈna.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ama, -a
• Hyphenation: na‧ma

nama (Jawi spelling نام, plural nama-nama)

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

   Synonym: isim

2. noun

   Synonym: kata nama

3. title, epithet.

   Synonyms: gelaran, sebutan

4. fame.

   Synonyms: kemasyhuran, kehormatan

• > Ambonese Malay: nama (inherited)
• > Indonesian: nama (inherited)

• Grant, Anthony P. (2005) “Norm-referenced lexicostatistics and Chamic”, in Chamic and beyond studies in mainland Austronesian languages‎^[2], Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, page 64
• Adelaar, K. Alexander (1992) Proto Malayic: the reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[3], Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, page 140
• Edi Sedyawati, Ellya Iswati, Kusparyati Boedhijono, Dyah Widjajanti D. (1994) Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, →ISBN, pages 122-3
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “نام nama”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 138
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “نام nama”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 670
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nama”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 162

• “nama” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from English number.

nama

1. number, numeral
2. bill, invoice

• nama waea (“telephone number”)
• noho nama (“to be in debt”)

nama (passive namaa or namahia or namaia or namangia)

1. to owe, to be in debt
2. to borrow, to obtain on credit
3. to lend, to give credit

• “nama” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

nama

1. meat, flesh

• noma

From Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.mɑ/

nama m (nominative plural naman)

1. name
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Nū synd sume men þe nyton hwæt sē nama [Cathedra Sancti Petri] ġetacnaþ.

     Now there are some men who don't know what the name Cathedra Sancti Petri means.

   Rōse be ǣnigum ōðrum naman stunce swā swōte.

   A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

2. (grammar) noun
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

     Ealle naman...bēoþ ġebīgede on fīf declinungum.

     All nouns...are inflected in five declensions.

Weak:

• nemnian

• Middle English: name, nome (West Midland, Southern)
  • English: name
    • → Sranan Tongo: nen
    • → Japanese: ネーム
  • Geordie English: nyem
  • Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
  • Yola: naame, name, naume

nama m

1. alternative form of noma

nama

1. second-person singular imperative active of namati (“to bend”)

• IPA^(key): /naˈma/
• Hyphenation: na‧ma

nama (Syllabics ᓇᒪ)

1. not

• namôya

• H. C. Wolfart (1996) “Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language”, in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 17, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, page 438

• IPA^(key): /nâma/
• Hyphenation: na‧ma

nȁma (Cyrillic spelling на̏ма)

1. to us (dative plural of jȃ (“I”))
2. us (locative plural of jȃ (“I”))
3. us (instrumental plural of jȃ (“I”))
4. (emphatic, possessive, dative) alternative form of nam; our, of ours

   Gdje je nama auto?

   Where is our car?

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

nama class 9/10 (plural dinama)

1. meat, flesh

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-nama (infinitive kunama)

1. to be flexible

-nama

1. to tease (for fun)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

• IPA^(key): /nà.mà/

1=9
2=10

nama (plural dinama)

1. meat, flesh

nama

1. genitive singular of nam

• IPA^(key): /ˈn̪a.ma/

nama

1. flower

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

nama

1. now, today

Borrowed from Hausa nāmā̀, ultimately from Benue-Congo.

• IPA^(key): /nã́.mà/

námà

1. beef

   Synonym: ẹran màlúù

From Proto-Mixtec *náwą̀.

nama

1. wall

From Proto-Mixtec *nàwą̀ʔ.

nama

1. soap

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nama

1. (transitive) save, rescue
2. (transitive) protect, defend
3. (transitive) escape

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nama

1. (interrogative) when?

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[5] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 49