Where does “таман” come from?
таман (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ottoman Turkish تمام, from Arabic تَمَام, from Arabic تمام, from Arabic م, from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-.
таман (Serbo-Croatian): dark, gloomy, dim; just
Ancestry of “таман”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | تمام | complete; finished, terminated; dead |
| 2 | Arabic | تَمَام | complete, finished |
| 3 | Arabic | تمام | verbal noun of تَمَّ; completeness, wholeness,... |
| 4 | Arabic | م | a prefix used to create nouns of place; a prefix... |
| 5 | Proto-Semitic | šamaʿ- | — |