tamas
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9.9
- proper noun
- "I'm fairly certain Tamas was here, and not so long ago."
- Tamas Kovacs
- Tamas and Bogdan
- Ivan Tamas
Examples
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We were always on the best of terms. "You just happened by today," Tamas scoffed.
Fiction book (1992) -
And he knew the look Tamas would give him if he could not even keep his dog safe in his pen.
Fiction book (1992) -
And when Tamas called him a fool, he said, "You said I should watch your dog."
Fiction book (1992) -
No, Tamas would forgive him, and that was a thousand times worse.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Because he can't do everything at once," Tamas said under his breath; he had stopped expecting the men to listen to him.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now, Tamas thought, they would begin to see the landmarks their gran had described.
Fiction book (1992) -
Tamas looked wildly about as horses bolted past and his own shied and reared.
Fiction book (1992) -
I spoke to Tamas yesterday, and he promised to help with the project.
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At the conference, I met Tamas, who presented his research on climate change.
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Have you seen Tamas? He is always the first to arrive at our meetings.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tamas is the Hungarian form of the name Thomas, which comes from an old Aramaic word meaning 'twin'. So when you meet a tamas, his name originally meant 'twin', the same basic meaning as the English name Thomas.