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) Tama are a non-Arab, African ethnic group of people who live in eastern Chad and western Sudan. They speak Tama, a Nilo-Saharan language. The population is 200,000–300,000 people and they practice Islam. Many Tama are subsistence farmers who li ...

, an indigenous group of Colombia

Places

* Tama, Iowa, United States * Tama County, Iowa, United States * Tama, Niger * Tama, La Rioja, Argentina * Tama, Musashi (), an old district in

Musashi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, S ...

, Japan ** Tama Area (), the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture *** Tama Cemetery, the largest municipal cemetery in Japan ***

Tama Hills is an area of hills stretching across southwest Tokyo and northeast Kanagawa Prefecture in the Kantō Plain on Honshū, Japan. Its total area is approximately 300 km2. The Tama River marks its northeastern boundary. The Tama Hills border the ...

, 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 The Kosi or Koshi ( ne, कोशी, , hi, कोसी, ) is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major confluence ...

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

* 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 , also known as ''D-Fragments'', is a comedic manga series by Tomoya Haruno that began serialization in Media Factory's ''Monthly Comic Alive'' in July 2008. It has been collected in sixteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of October 2021. A 12-episod ...

'' * 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 ''Tama'' is a monotypic genus of tree trunk spiders containing the single species, ''Tama edwardsi''. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1882, and has only been found in Spain, in Portugal, and in Algeria ) , image_map ...

'', a genus of spiders * Tama Toshi Monorail Line (), in Tokyo, Japan * Tama Electric Car Company, a car manufacturer which became Prince Motor Company *

Tama-chan is the name given to a male bearded seal which was first spotted on August 7, 2002 near Maruko Bridge on Tama River in Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently became a national celebrity in Japan. Name Tama-chan is named after the river ('' Tama'') where ...

, an Arctic seal living in the Tokyo area which became a national celebrity in 2002 *

1089 Tama 1089 Tama, provisional designation , is an elongated Florian asteroid and synchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Japanese astronomer Okuro Oikawa at the ...

(), 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