Thames

Etymology
From, from , (compare 🇨🇬), from ,. Variant spellings with h arose in Middle English due to the mistaken assumption of a Greek etymology.

The Latin name is from, from , a masculine ā-stem of , , zero-grade of , , an s-stem from the root. Related to,. A parallel in Proto-Celtic of "dark, darkness" taking on the figurative meaning of "water" can also be found in 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, yielding 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Hydronyms with their origin in this term also occur elsewhere in Europe, for example Portugal's Douro.

Alternatively from, , from , or from unknown non-Indo-European root.

Possible cognates include the names of rivers and tributaries such as:
 * Taff, Tamar (from 🇨🇬), Tame, Tavy, Team, Teifi (from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, ), Teme, and Teviot (🇨🇬, ) in Great Britain
 * Tambre (from 🇨🇬), Támega (in Galician, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), Támoga or Támboga (🇨🇬), and Tamuxe, all of them flowing through Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal
 * Tamaran in France
 * Tammaro (from 🇨🇬) in Italy
 * Demer in Belgium
 * Tamyras in Phoenicia

More at Thames.

Proper noun

 * 1)  to the  and.
 * 2) A sea area centred on the.
 * , flowing 258 km (160 mi.) to.
 * 1)  flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past  to.
 * , situated on the (a large bay) and the Coromandel Peninsula.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Teems
 * Amharic: ቴምስ
 * Arabic: اَلتِّمْز
 * Aragonese: Tamisa
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: Támesis
 * Azerbaijani: Temza
 * Basque: Tamesis
 * Belarusian: Тэ́мза
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bihari: टेम्स
 * Breton: Tavoez
 * Bulgarian: Те́мза
 * Burmese: သိမ်းမြစ်
 * Catalan: Tàmesi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 泰晤士河
 * Mandarin: ;
 * Wu: 泰晤士河
 * Chuvash: Те́мза
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Tamizo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Támese, Támesis
 * Georgian: ტემზა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Themse
 * Greek: Τάμεσις,
 * Ancient: Τάμεσις
 * Hebrew: תמזה
 * Hindi: टेम्स, ठेम्स​
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Temsá, Tempsá
 * Irish: Tamais
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: テムズ川, テムズ
 * Kannada: ಟೇಮ್ಸ್
 * Kashubian: Temza
 * Kazakh: Темза
 * Korean: ^템스 강, ^템스
 * Kyrgyz: Темза
 * Lao: ເທມ
 * Latin: Tamesis, Tamesa
 * Latvian: Temza
 * Lithuanian: Temzė
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Thems
 * Luxembourgish: Themse
 * Macedonian: Темза
 * Malayalam: തേംസ്
 * Manx: Thaimish
 * Marathi: थेम्स
 * Middle English: Temese, Temes, Tempse
 * Mingrelian: თემზა
 * Mirandese: Tamisa
 * Mongolian: Темза
 * Norman: Riviéthe dé Londres, Riviéthe dé l'Engoulême
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Themsen
 * Nynorsk: Themsen
 * Occitan: Tamèsi
 * Old English: Temes
 * Old Norse: Temps, Tems
 * Ottoman Turkish: تایمس
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: Tamis
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Tâmisa, Tamisa
 * Punjabi: ਥੇਮਜ਼
 * Romanian: Tamisa
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian: Themse
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Те̏мза
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: Tamiggi
 * Slovak: Temža
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: Támesis
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Tamesis
 * Tajik: Темза
 * Tamil: தேம்சு
 * Telugu: టేమ్స్
 * Thai: แม่น้ำเทมส์, เทมส์
 * Tibetan: ཐེམ་ཟི་
 * Turkish: Thames
 * Ukrainian: Темза
 * Urdu: ٹیمز
 * Uzbek: Temza
 * Venetian: Tamise
 * Welsh: Tafwys
 * West Flemish: Thems
 * West Frisian: Teems
 * Western Panjabi: تھیمز
 * Yiddish: טעמז
 * Zazaki: Temza