Tama

Template:Sister project 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 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 (), 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
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