Tama
# Tama

Tama may mean:

## Languages

* Tama language, the language of the Sudanese Tama people
* Tama languages, a language family of northern Papua New Guinea

## 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

* Tama Hochbaum (born 1953), American artist and photographer
* Tama people, an ethnic group in Chad and Sudan
* La Tama, previously Ocute, a Native American people of the U.S. state of Georgia
* Tama, the ring name of professional wrestler Sam Fatu
* Tama, clan of junior Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 70–115,000
* Tama people (Colombia), an indigenous group of Colombia

## Places

* Tama, Iowa, United States
* Tama County, Iowa, United States
* Tama, Niger
* Tama, La Rioja, Argentina
* Tama, Musashi (多摩郡), an old district in Musashi Province, Japan
   * Tama Area (多摩地域), 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 (多摩市), a municipality classified as a city, in western Tokyo
      * Nishitama, Tokyo (西多摩郡), a district in Tokyo
      * Tama River (多摩川), a river in Japan
   * Tama-ku, Kawasaki (多摩区), 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 (魂), 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

* 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 (video game), a Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn launch game only released in Japan
* 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

## Other uses

* Tama (cat), a cat who was a stationmaster of a Japanese railway station
* TAMA 300, a gravitational wave detector
* Tama Art University, a Japanese private art school
* Tama edwardsi, a genus of spiders
* Tama Toshi Monorail Line (多摩都市モノレール線), 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 (多摩), 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
