Arabic

Verb

تَمَّ • ‎(tamma) I, non-past يَتِمُّ‎ (yatimmu)

1. to be fulfilled, to be completed
2. to come about, to happen
3. to take place
4. to persist (in) (with عَلَى ‎(ʿalā))
5. to continue (something) (with عَلَى ‎(ʿalā))

Conjugation

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “تم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1976), “تم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-001-8

Etymology 2

Noun

تَمّ or تِمّ or تُمّ • ‎(tamm or timm or tumm) m

1. verbal noun of تَمَّ ‎(tamma) (form I)

Declension

Persian

Etymology 1

Middle Persian [script needed] tom, tam ‎(“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *témHos ‎(“darkness”), from *temH- ‎(“dark”). Cognate with Sanskrit तमस् ‎(támas) and Latin temere ‎(“blindly”).

Noun

تم • ‎(tam)

1. (archaic) darkness, blackness
2. a disease in the eye, the web or cataract on the pupil
3. any veil or covering

Etymology 2

Borrowing from French thème.

Noun

تم • ‎(tem)

1. theme

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit त्वम् ‎(tvám), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊm/

Pronoun

تم • ‎(tum) ?, Devanagari spelling: तुम ‎(tum)

1. you, ye (mid level formality and grammatically plural)

Declension

Usage notes

• تم is the mid level formal way of expressing "you" in Urdu and is used when addressing those of equal social status or those one has a close enough relationship with to justify the reduced formality. Because the less formal forms could offend others, آپ is the safest way to express "you" unless there is reason to be less formal.
• Because تم is grammatically plural (adjectives and verbs etc affected by it take their plural forms) even when there is only one person being referred to, the term تم لوگ (literally: you people) can be used to specify that more than one person is being referred to.

See also

• آپ ‎(highest formality, grammatically plural)
• تو ‎(complete lack of human formality, grammatically singular)