mama

• mamma, momma

Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”).

• (General American) enPR: mäʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈmɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə

mama (plural mamas)

1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

• amma, ma'am

mama

1. father

mama

1. mother
2. woman

   Synonym: uman

• IPA^(key): /ma.ma/

mama

1. mother
2. Mrs., mistress (general respectful address for married women).

   tatanak mamanaka ― ladies and gentlemen

mama

1. (Timau) mother, mom, mama

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ma/

mama f (plural mames)

1. (familiar) mom
2. (anatomy) mamma

• càncer de mama (“breast cancer”)

• Hyphenation: ma‧ma

mama

1. a mother; a (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be

   Synonyms: ina, inahan, nanay

2. a term of address to one's mother, mother-in-law or wife

From English mama or French maman.

mama

1. mother

   Synonym: naha

   Coordinate term: papa

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmaː/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /mɑˈmaː/
• Rhymes: -aː

mama f (plural mama's, diminutive mamaatje n)

1. mama, mother

   Mama, ik heb honger! ― Mommy, I’m hungry!

   Synonyms: ma, mam

   Synonyms: moeder, moe, moeke (Flemish)

• mamma

mama

1. grandmother

mama

1. third-person singular present indicative of mamar
2. second-person singular imperative of mamar

From Portuguese mama. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mama.

mama

1. bosom
2. breast of a woman

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒmɒ]

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ma

mama (plural mamák)

1. mom

   Synonyms: anya, anyu, édesanya, anyuka, anyuci

2. (dialectal) grandmom

Borrowed from English mama, French maman, German Mama, Italian mamma, Russian ма́ма (máma), Spanish mamá.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmama/

mama (plural mamai)

1. mama, mom, mommy, mum

   Synonym: matro

   Coordinate terms: papa, patro

From Latin mamma.

mama m (genitive singular mama, nominative plural mamaí)

1. (literary) breast, pap
2. (anatomy) mamma

• "mama" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “mama” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “mama” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin mamma.

mama f

1. mom, mamma, mother

• mare

mama

1. Rōmaji transcription of まま
2. Rōmaji transcription of ママ

From Portuguese mama.

mama

1. bosom
2. breast of a woman

mama

1. you

mamà f (plural mãmos) stress pattern 4

1. mother

• mamýtė, mamẽlė (diminutive)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmama]

mama f (diminutive maminka)

1. mother, mom

mama

1. mother (used when addressing one’s mother, but not when referring to her)

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

• IPA^(key): /mama/

mama

1. paternal uncle (one’s father’s brother)

• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

From French maman

mama

1. mother

From Hindi मामा (māmā) and Marathi मामा (māmā).

mama

1. uncle

   Synonyms: chacha, tonton

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

mama ?

1. mother

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

mama

1. mother

mama

1. genitive and dative singular of ahaṃ (“me”)

• IPA^(key): /mama/

mama

1. father

   Synonym: papu

2. paternal uncle (one’s father’s brother)

• Dench, Alan (1991). "Panyjima", in R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake: The Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 4. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 125–244.

From Dutch mama.

mama

1. mother

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɐmɐ]

mama

1. father

   Synonym: punari

2. father’s older brother or close male friend; uncle

   Synonym: mama puḻka

3. god

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ma/

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mama f

1. mum

• mama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mammella, French mamelle.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ.mɐ/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ma
• Rhymes: -ama

mama f (plural mamas)

1. (human) breast, bosom
2. (animal) udder, teat

mama

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mamar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mamar

mama

1. mother
2. madam, lady
3. (figuratively) nest, home
4. (geology) vein
5. (mathematics) matrix

• jatun mama
• mama qucha

• tayta

mama f

1. definite nominative and accusative singular of mamă

From Latin mamma, from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmama/

mama f (plural mamas) (Limba Sarda Comuna)

1. mother

• babbu
• tzia

• IPA^(key): /mâma/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ma

mȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ма)

1. mom

• IPA^(key): /ˈmama/

mama f (genitive singular mamy, nominative plural mamy, genitive plural mám, declension pattern of žena)

1. mama

• mama in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Latin mamma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmama/

mama f (plural mamas)

1. breast, mamma

mama

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mamar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of mamar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mamar.

mama (n class, plural mama)

1. mother (female parent)

   Coordinate term: baba

2. Respectful term of address for an older woman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.maʔ/

mama

1. a term used in referring to, or in addressing, a male unknown to the speaker

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈma/

Borrowed from Spanish mamá, adapted from French maman.

mama

1. (colloquial, familiar, childish) mum, mom

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈmaʔ/

mama

1. betel chewing

From English mama.

mama

1. mother
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:20:

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   Antonym: papa

• mama karim

mama (definite accusative mamayı, plural mamalar)

1. baby food
2. food (in child's language)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmama]

mama f (diminutive mamička or mamimka)

1. mama, mommy, mum

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mamma.

mama f (plural mame)

1. mother
2. mum, mummy

Compare Guugu Yimidhirr mayi.

mama

1. (vegetable-based) food

• Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)