English
Tamara
Tamara comes from Hebrew תָּמָר ‘Tamar’, and goes back to Aramaic תמרא.
- Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEתמראtamrā, tamrē, təmārā
- Hebrew1880s–presentתָּמָרtamár‘Tamar’literally ‘date palm’
- RussianmodernТама́раTamára
- Englishearliest quotation 2022Tamara
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEתמראtamrā, tamrē, təmārā
- Hebrew1880s–presentתָּמָרtamár‘Tamar’literally ‘date palm’
- RussianmodernТама́раTamára
- Englishearliest quotation 2022Tamara
Earliest quotation: 2022, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez: “Best Version Media shared a statement about the death…”
Every English word from Aramaic תמרא
Today it means
name A female given name from Hebrew, regularly used in English since the mid-twentieth century.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Aramaic תמרא / Tamara