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