Where does “taman” come from?
taman (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ottoman Turkish تمام, from Arabic تَمَام, from Arabic تمام, from Arabic م, from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-.
taman (Serbo-Croatian): dark, gloomy, dim; just; just right, fitting,...
Definitions
- dark, gloomy, dim; just; just right, fitting,...
Ancestry of “taman”, step by step
taman traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ottoman Turkish تمام
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 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- | — |
via Proto-Slavic tьmьnъ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Slavic | tьmьnъ | dark |
| 2 | Proto-Slavic | tьma | dark, darkness |
| 3 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | timāˀ | darkness |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | tēmH- | dark |
Words derived from “taman”