amma

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmə/
• Rhymes: -æmə

Related to Classical Syriac ܐܡܐ‎ (emma), Hindi अम्मा (ammā), Malayalam അമ്മ (amma), Kannada ಅಮ್ಮ (amma, “mother”) Telugu అమ్మ (amma, “mother”), Sinhalese අම්මා (ammā, “mother”), or Tamil அம்மா (ammā, “mother”).

amma (plural ammas)

1. mother

• Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

• amah

Late Latin amma , probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare Spanish ama, German Amme, Basque ama.

amma (plural ammas)

1. An abbess or spiritual mother.

• ma ma, ma'am, mama

Ultimately from Arabic أَمَّا‎ (ʾammā). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑmːɑ]
• (Karabakh) IPA^(key): [ˈɑmbɑ] (as if spelled amba)

amma

1. but

àmma

1. water

• Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] BT *hama [Stl.] = *am- [Schuh], Bole ˀame [Schuh] = aməi [Schuh] = àmmá [Schuh] […]

• (Revived Late Cornish) abma

From amm (“kiss”).

amma

1. to kiss

From Swedish amma.

amma

1. wet nurse
2. nanny

• amme
• ammentaa
• emo
• emä
• ämmi
• ämmä

From Old Norse amma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈamːa/
• Rhymes: -amːa

amma f (genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

1. grandmother, grandma, granny

• kalla ekki allt ömmu sína
• langamma

amma

1. water

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Pokorny[1] suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”). Compare Latin amita (“paternal aunt”), Latin anus (“crone”) and Old High German amma (“wet nurse”).

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension

1. A nocturnal bird

First declension.

• amma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• (of noun) ammen
• (of verb) ammet

amma m or f

1. definite feminine singular of amme

amma

1. simple past of amme
2. past participle of amme

amma f

1. definite singular of amme

From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (“mother”).

amma f

1. wet nurse

• German: Amme

From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *amma (“mother”).

amma f

1. grandmother

• Faroese: omma f
• Icelandic: amma f

• amma in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

amma

1. yet

• ama
• âmâ