tamada

Etymology


Borrowed from, from (Proto-?)Circassian (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), probably from  (from ) with the ending reshaped under the influence of.

The suggestion that the word is derived from a (in the sense of a person at the head of a table) is a.

Noun

 * 1)  A toastmaster at a feast in the Caucasus, especially in Georgia.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: tamada
 * Belarusian: тамада́
 * Chechen: тхьамда
 * Chuvash: кӗрекеҫӗ
 * Estonian: tamada
 * Finnish: tamada
 * Georgian: ,
 * German: Tamada
 * Karachay-Balkar: тамата
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tamada
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: тамада́
 * Uzbek: