tamas
tamas noun: one of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
Noun
tamas (uncountable)
- One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
Proper noun capitalized: Tamas
Tamas (plural Tamases)
- A surname from Hungarian.
tamas meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Sanskrit
tamas in Hindi
- Tamas , one of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are, associated with inertia, ignorance, and materialism
- तमस् tamas
tamas in Tamil
- குணதத்துவம், அகக்கூத்து, அகமார்க்கம்
tamas in Sanskrit
- tamas, one of the three qualities or constituents of everything in creation
- तमस् támas
Forms of tamas
| plural | Tamases |
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Origin of tamas
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
Borrowed from Hungarian Tamás.
Words formed from tamas
Questions about tamas
- What does tamas mean?
- Tamas means one of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
- What is tamas in Hindi?
- Tamas in Hindi is तमस् (tamas). See Tamas meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tamas?
- Tamas can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near tamas in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tamas (page history and authors); Tamas (page history and authors); तमस् (Hindi) (page history and authors); tamas (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तमस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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