toma

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian toma. Cognate with Sicilian tuma.

Noun

toma (uncountable)

1. A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont

See also

• Toma cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mota, TMAO, atom, Mato, Amto, moat, Atom, Moat, Mota, atmo

Verb

toma

1. to be limp

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Verb

toma

1. inflection of tomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Verb

toma

1. inflection of tomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomar (“to drink; to take”). Doublet of tomar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈtomaʔ/ [ˈt̪o.mɐʔ]

Noun

tomà

1. (slang) alcohol consumption

Verb

tomà

1. (slang) to drink alcohol

Verb

toma

1. inflection of tomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Noun

toma

1. vocative plural of tom (“bush, shrub”)
2. genitive singular of tom (“fit, paroxysm”)

Verb

toma

1. present subjunctive analytic of tom (“dip, immerse”)

Mutation

Etymology

Probably a cousin of French tome (“kind of mountain cheese”), itself from Latin tomus (“slice, portion”). Compare Sicilian tuma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: tò‧ma

Noun

toma f (plural tome)

1. toma

Further reading

• Oxford University Press (2016): The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Anagrams

• mota

Romanization

toma

1. Rōmaji transcription of とま

Noun

toma

1. book
   • 1993, Toma Mi Akugu'ba Yowani: Book of Gospel according to John:
   • 1994, toma Mi Tisaki: Book of Genesis:

Verb

toma

1. to send

Etymology

From tuma, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tumah.

Noun

toma

1. louse

Noun

toma

1. tomb, mausoleum

   I whakatakotoria tahitia a Mananui rāua ko Nohopapa ki te toma i Pūkawa.

   Mananui and Nohopapa were laid together in the vault at Pūkawa.

Noun

toma

1. clay

References

• LePage, Sarah Gloria (2020) "The phonology of Mbati"‎, University of North Dakota

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔmɐ
• Hyphenation: to‧ma

Verb

toma

1. inflection of tomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoma/ [ˈt̪o.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: to‧ma

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “toma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomar (“to drink; to take”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtomaʔ/ [ˈt̪oː.mɐʔ], /ˈtoma/ [ˈt̪oː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -omaʔ, -oma
• Syllabification: to‧ma

Noun

tomà or toma (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋ)

1. (colloquial) act of drinking an alcoholic beverage

   Synonyms: tungga, barik

Further reading

• “toma”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

• amot, tamo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.ma]

Preposition

toma (Jawi تم)

1. non-human oblique preposition
   1. to

      una owosa toma kamar madaha ― he entered the room (literally, “he went to the room's inside”)

      ifere toma kadatu ― they climbed to the palace

      horu-horu ka toma Disa ― paddle on towards Disa

   2. at, in

      Kie Gamalama itego toma kie makonora ― Mount Gamalama sits in the island's center

      toma ngote maadu ― at the bottom of the stairs

   3. on

      toma wange enage ― on that day

      otego toma kurusi ― he sits on a chair

   4. from

      bifi doro toma meja manyeku ― the ant falls from the desk's top

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh