toma

See also: Toma, tomá, tôma, Tôma, tǫ̂mą, tomaʼ, and -toma

English

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

'Are'are

Verb

toma

1. to be limp

References

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

Asturian

Verb

toma

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

Catalan

Verb

toma

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

Cebuano

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

Conjugation

Conjugation for toma (mo- )

Affix		Root word				Trigger
mo-		toma			actor
Aspect						Imperative
Infinitive		Past/present inchoative		Future/habitual inchoative
motoma		mitoma nitoma		motoma		pagtoma

Conjugation for toma (maka- )

Affix		Root word		Trigger
maka-		toma		actor
Aspect
Infinitive		Past/present inchoative		Future/habitual inchoative
makatoma		nakatoma		makatoma

Conjugation for toma (-on )

Affix		Root word				Trigger
-on		toma			object
Aspect						Imperative
Infinitive		Past/present inchoative		Future/habitual inchoative
tomaon		gitoma		tomaon		tomaa

Galician

Verb

toma

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

Irish

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

Mutated forms of toma

radical	lenition	eclipsis
toma	thoma	dtoma

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

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

Related terms

• tomatino

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mota

Japanese

Romanization

toma

1. Rōmaji transcription of とま

Jur Modo

Noun

toma

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

Synonyms

• buku

Lingala

Verb

toma

1. to send

Mansaka

Etymology

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

Noun

toma

1. louse

Maori

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.

Mbati

Noun

toma

1. clay

References

• LePage, Sarah Gloria (2020) "The phonology of Mbati"‎^[1], University of North Dakota

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔmɐ
• Hyphenation: to‧ma

Verb

toma

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoma/ [ˈt̪o.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: to‧ma

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).

Noun

toma f (plural tomas)

1. conquest, capture, taking, takeover
2. dose, serving
3. (medicine) intake
4. socket, connector, outlet (source of electricity, internet etc.) (Ellipsis of toma de corriente.)

   Synonyms: enchufe, conexión

5. shot, take, recording
6. (Chile) an act of political civil disobedience through occupation protest that assumes control of a place, often a building or park

Usage notes

• With regards to the political definition this often expressed in English through the verb occupy or simply as a protest and context is given to explain it occurred within a particular place.

Derived terms

• toma de conciencia
• toma de contacto
• toma de decisiones
• toma de posesión
• toma de tierra

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

toma

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

Further reading

• “toma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

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

Derived terms

• pagtoma
• pantoma
• patomain
• tomahan
• tomahin
• tumoma

 

Related terms

• tomar
• tomador
• tomaposesyon

Further reading

• “toma”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[2], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

• amot, tamo

Ternate

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

Usage notes

Toma is only used when the referent is non-human. For human referents, se is used instead.

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