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

  • La Tama, previously Ocute, a Native American people of the U.S. state of Georgia
  • Tama, clan of junior Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 70–115,000
  • Tama people (Colombia), an indigenous group of Colombia
  • Tama people, an ethnic group in Chad and Sudan
  • , Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter
  • Tama, the ring name of professional wrestler Sam Fatu
  • Tama Hochbaum (born 1953), American artist and photographer
  • , Japanese painter
  • Tama Kurokawa (1869–1962) the third wife of Sir Edwin Arnold
  • , Japanese essayist
  • , Japanese physician and politician
  • , Japanese religious leader
  • Tama Tokuda (1920–2013), Japanese American performer and writer
  • Tama Tonga (born 1982), Tongan-American professional wrestler

Places

  • Tama, Iowa, United States
  • Tama County, Iowa, United States
  • Tama, Niger
  • Tama, La Rioja, Argentina
  • Tama, Musashi (), an old district in Musashi Province, Japan
  • Tama Area (), 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 (), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo
  • Nishitama, Tokyo (), a district in Tokyo
  • Tama River (), a river in Japan
  • Tama-ku, Kawasaki (), 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 (), 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

  • Kurozumi Tama, fictional character from One Piece
  • Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth, a Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn launch game only released in Japan
  • 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 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
  • Tama Yagami, a character from the light novel Sasami-san@Ganbaranai

Other uses

  • Tama (cat), a cat who was the stationmaster of a Japanese railway station
  • TAMA 300, a gravitational wave detector
  • Tama Home, a Japanese housing company
  • Tama Art University, a Japanese private art school
  • Tama edwardsi, a species of spiders
  • Tama Toshi Monorail Line (), 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 (), 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)
  • Thama the Elephant, a fictional character and a series of children's books by Indian writer Kamala Laxman
  • Tamma Srinivasa Reddy (born 1968), Indian photographer
  • "Tamma Tamma", a song by Bappi Lahiri and Anuradha Paudwal from the 1990 Indian film Thanedaar, based on "Tama" by Mory Kante
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