tima

tima

1. to dig

From timi +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ti‧ma

tima (accusative singular timan, plural timaj, accusative plural timajn)

1. fearful

tima

1. (Banawá) upriver

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from Bangi tima.

-tima (infinitive kotima)

1. to dig

Syncopic form of terima.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/ [ˈt̪i.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ma

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈtimə/ [ˈt̪i.mə]
  • Rhymes: -mə

tima

1. (colloquial) alternative form of terima.

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[1], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

tima

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of tyme (“time”)

• tīema, tȳma

From Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Cognate with Old High German *zīmo, Old Norse tími. Related to Old English tīd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.mɑ/

tīma m

1. a time, hour (period of time)

   On hwelcne tīman sċealt þū tō morgne onwæcnan?

   What time do you have to wake up tomorrow?

   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Hit is tīma tō erienne.

     It's time to plough.

   • c. 897, Alfred the Great, translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care

     Nū ūs is tīma þæt wē onwæcnen of slǣpe.

     Now it's time for us to wake up from our sleep.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"

     Þā cleopode hē þā tungolwītegan on sundorsprǣċe and ġeornlīċe hīe befrugnon on hwelcne tīman hīe ǣrest þone steorran ġesāwen.

     He summoned the astrologers to private conversation and anxiously asked them at what time they first saw the star.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Ġelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes.

     Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.

2. an age (of the world), era

Weak:

• tīd

• ǣfentīma
• dæġtīma
• ġetīmian
• lenctentīma
• mǣrsungtīma
• nōntīma
• sǣdtīma
• tīmlīċe
• underntīma

• Middle English: tyme, teme, teyme, tim, time, tym, tima, timæ, tyma (Early Middle English)
  • English: time (see there for further descendants)

    Ottawa Valley: teim

  • Middle Scots: tyme
    • Scots: time, teime, tim
  • Yola: deemes (plural)

tima (Cyrillic spelling тима)

1. genitive singular of tim

• IPA^(key): /ˈtima/ [ˈt̪i.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ti‧ma

tima

1. inflection of timar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

tima (present timar, preterite timade, supine timat, imperative tima)

1. (archaic) to happen

   Synonym: ske

• tima in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

tima

1. (interrogative) who