Tammy

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Short form of TAMARA and other names beginning with Tam.

TAMARA   female   Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
Russian form of TAMAR. Russian performers such as Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Tamara Drasin (1905-1943), Tamara Geva (1907-1997) and Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) introduced it to the English-speaking world. It was also borne by the Polish cubist painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980).
TAMAR   female   Hebrew, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Means "palm tree" in Hebrew. According to the Old Testament Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah and later his wife. This was also the name of a daughter of King David. She was raped by her half-brother Amnon, leading to his murder by her brother Absalom. The name was borne by a 12th-century ruling queen of Georgia who presided over the kingdom at the peak of its power.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Tamara, Tameka, Tamera, Tamika, Tammara, Tamra
EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Thamar
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Tamar
BIBLICAL LATIN: Thamar
BIBLICAL: Tamar
CROATIAN: Tamara
CZECH: Tamara
DUTCH: Tamara
ENGLISH: Tami, Tamia, Tammi, Tammie
GEORGIAN: Tamar, Tamari
HEBREW: Tamar
ITALIAN: Tamara
JAPANESE: Tamiko
MACEDONIAN: Tamara
POLISH: Tamara
RUSSIAN: Tamara, Toma
SERBIAN: Tamara
SLOVAK: Tamara
SLOVENE: Tamara
SPANISH: Tamara
UKRAINIAN: Tamara
OTHER FORMS
AFRICAN AMERICAN: Taneka, Tanika