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Borrowed from Turkish tamam, from Arabic تَمَام (tamām).

• IPA^(key): /taˈmaːm/

tamam

1. (colloquial, immigrant slang, overall rare) OK, alright

   Synonyms: okay, in Ordnung

   • 2016, “Schöne Onkelz”, performed by Eko Fresh:

     Tamam, ich chille im Hamam
     13-jährige kommentieren meine Bilder mit »Haram«

     Alright, I’m chilling in the hamam
     13-year-olds comment my pics with “Haram”

From Arabic تَمَام (tamām).

tamam (comparative lebih tamam, superlative paling tamam)

1. complete, perfect

   Synonyms: sempurna, komplet, lengkap

2. finished, completed

   Synonyms: selesai, usai, rampung

Borrowed from Arabic تمام (tamām, “perfect”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Via Assyrian Neo-Aramaic?”)

tamam (not comparable)

1. (slang) perfect

   Hon är tamam

   She's perfect

Borrowed from Turkish tamam, from Arabic تَمَام (tamām).

tamam

1. (slang) OK

• Slangopedia

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تمام (tamam), borrowed from Arabic تَمَام (tamām).

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈmɑm/, (definite accusative) /tɑˈmɑːm/
• (informal) IPA^(key): /tɑːm/, /tɑˈɑ̃/

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tamam (intensive tastamam)

1. complete, without defects

   Synonyms: tam, eksiksiz

2. complete, completed, finished

tamam (definite accusative tamamı, plural tamamlar)

1. all, whole, complete

   Synonym: bütün

   hayatımın tamamı ― all my life (literally, “the whole of my life”)

tamam

1. OK

   Synonyms: oldu, olur, peki

• → Azerbaijani: tamam (semantic loan)
• → German: tamam
• → Swedish: tamam

• “tamam”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “tamam”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tamam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük