name
Meaning 1
A surname from Hungarian.
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tamas
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CMU ARPABET: T AA1 M AH0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
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Usage: uncountable
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian Tamás.
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
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