How do you pronounce Tamar?

[Ouchmytoe100]

I have pronounced it Ta (with a short 'a' sound, like the 'a' in 'cat') - Mar (to rhyme with car). With the emphasis on the second syllable, the 'mar'. This is how I've heard it used by the only Tamars I've known (but none of them are British).

I posted another thread asking between Tamar and another name what was preferred and people mentioned pronunciation issues with Tamar and also one person said they wouldn't like the nickname 'Tay'. I was confused as I didn't understand where that nickname would come from? Now I'm wondering if there's another pronunciation used in the UK (something like 'Tay-mar'), which is assume much have the emphasis on the first syllable?

I love Tamar (said the first way) and although I don't like in the UK, I'm British and still have family wnd friends back home so don't want to choose a name that sounds horrible with the typical British pronunciation!

So how would you pronounce this name? Like me? Or the second way?

Tay mar

I only know one, a friend of my 9 year old DS pronounced with a short Ta, stress on the mar. TaMAR. As you pronounced. I live in Ireland

It’s Ta as in Ta and mir as in myrh

Tamyrh

Sorry, just to add I’m an Arabic speaker and know a few boys who are called Tamar.

As pp have said, it’s either a Hebrew name; or a Cornish / Devon name pronounced Tay-mar after the river. Obviously the Hebrew one is the oldest, but in the U.K. you’d probably find the other is better known.

FWIW Tay-mar would leap first to my mind (but I have Cornish family and a Cornish name myself!)

So it very much depends on whether you’ll be living in the U.K. and where, whether you or your social circle is largely Jewish, how much you’re happy with correcting pronunciation, and so on — which is all very much up to you whether you choose it as a name! I’d say have it if you want it!

The girl I went to school with was Tay mar

I'd pronounce it the way you said

Didn't realize it came from Hebrew. But yes, stress on the second syllable, as you suggest. My first thought would be of Queen Tamar. Nicknames Tamuna or Tako.

Yep, this!

Like the bridge into Devon