Tama may mean:
Languages Tama language, the language of the Sudanese Tama people Tama languages, a language family of northern Papua New Guinea Tama language, an extinct language of Colombia
Music Tama Drums, a Japanese brand manufactured by Hoshino Gakki Tama (percussion), a type of talking drum from West Africa "Tama", a song by Mory Kanté
People La Tama, previously Ocute, a Native American people of the U.S. state of Georgia Tama, clan of junior Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 70–115,000 Tama people (Colombia), an indigenous group of Colombia Tama people, an ethnic group in Chad and Sudan , Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter Tama, the ring name of professional wrestler Sam Fatu Tama Hochbaum (born 1953), American artist and photographer , Japanese painter Tama Kurokawa (1869–1962) the third wife of Sir Edwin Arnold , Japanese essayist , Japanese physician and politician , Japanese religious leader Tama Tokuda (1920–2013), Japanese American performer and writer Tama Tonga (born 1982), Tongan-American professional wrestler
Places Tama, Iowa, United States Tama County, Iowa, United States Tama, Niger Tama, La Rioja, Argentina Tama, Musashi (), an old district in Musashi Province, Japan Tama Area (), the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture Tama Cemetery, the largest municipal cemetery in Japan Tama Hills, an expanse of hills stretching along the southwestern flank of Tokyo Tama New Town, a residential development in the Tama Hills Tama, Tokyo (), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo Nishitama, Tokyo (), a district in Tokyo Tama River (), a river in Japan Tama-ku, Kawasaki (), a ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Tama River, a tributary of the Koshi River in Nepal Tama, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland) Tama, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
Religion Tama (), Shinto term for reverence for elders Tama (votive), a votive deposit or ex-voto used in the Eastern Orthodox Churches Tama-nui-te-rā, the personification of the Sun in Māori mythology
Fiction Kurozumi Tama, fictional character from One Piece Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth, a Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn launch game only released in Japan Tama, the reactivated form of the android Dark Washu in the manga No Need for Tenchi Tama-chan ("full name" Onsen Tamago), a pet turtle character in the manga Love Hina Tama (novel), by Winnifred Eaton Tama Sakai, a character from the anime and manga D-Frag The Children of Tama, a civilization encountered in the episode Darmok from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation Tama (Tamamohime), a talking fox-like character in the video game World of Final Fantasy Tama Yagami, a character from the light novel Sasami-san@Ganbaranai
Other uses Tama (cat), a cat who was the stationmaster of a Japanese railway station TAMA 300, a gravitational wave detector Tama Home, a Japanese housing company Tama Art University, a Japanese private art school Tama edwardsi, a species of spiders Tama Toshi Monorail Line (), in Tokyo, Japan Tama Electric Car Company, a car manufacturer which became Prince Motor Company Tama-chan, an Arctic seal living in the Tokyo area which became a national celebrity in 2002 1089 Tama (), an asteroid Armenian draughts Japanese cruiser Tama, a Japanese light cruiser during World War II Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity A wooden spool for making kumihimo braids with a Marudai An abbreviation of the name of the virtual pet Tamagotchi by Bandai An abbreviation for National Outline Plan
See also Tamas (disambiguation) Thama the Elephant, a fictional character and a series of children's books by Indian writer Kamala Laxman Tamma Srinivasa Reddy (born 1968), Indian photographer
"Tamma Tamma", a song by Bappi Lahiri and Anuradha Paudwal from the 1990 Indian film Thanedaar, based on "Tama" by Mory Kante :w:ja:タマ :w:ja:玉 :w:ja:多摩