tamo
Keywords: plants, landscaping
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'ta.mo |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
| Class: | pali |
| Forms: | tamo, tamos |
| Glosses: | grass, grassy, blade of grass, graze, mow, marijuana, cannabis |
Description:
The term 'tamo' means a blade of grass, or a single grass plant.
Noun:
As a noun, 'tamo' refers to a single blade of grass or a single grass plant, which can be conflated with any grass-like plant. To refer to grass as a mass, as in a lawn, one would refer to it in the plural, i.e.,. 'naz tamo'.
Colloquially since the early period, 'tamo' is also a slang word for marijuana, where it is always referred to in the plural or the paucal.
Verb:
As a verb, 'tamo' is a pali verb meaning to graze (as in an animal eating grass) or to mow (as in a lawn). The sense of 'mow' can be used even when it's not specifically grass being mowed. The adverb 'pete' can be added to clarify the meaning of mow.
Modifier:
As a modifier, 'tamos' means 'grassy'.