Tama Explained

Tama may mean:

Languages

• Tama language, the language of the Sudanese Tama people
• Tama languages, a language family of northern Papua New Guinea

Music

• 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

• 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

• Tama, Iowa, United States
• Tama County, Iowa, United States
• Tama, Niger
• Tama, La Rioja, Argentina
• Tama, Musashi (Japanese: 多摩郡), an old district in Musashi Province, Japan
  • Tama Area (Japanese: 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 (Japanese: 多摩市), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo
    • Nishitama, Tokyo (Japanese: 西多摩郡), a district in Tokyo
    • Tama River (Japanese: 多摩川), a river in Japan
  • Tama-ku, Kawasaki (Japanese: 多摩区), a ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa
• Tama River, a tributary of the Koshi River in Nepal
• Tama, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
• Tama, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)

Religion

• Tama (Japanese: 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

• 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

• 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 (Japanese: 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 (Japanese: 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

See also

• Tamas (disambiguation)