mami
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mami (plural mamis)
- (chiefly Latin America, Philippines) mommy, mother
- (chiefly Latin America) attractive woman; momma
- (chiefly Latin America) a term of affection for a woman
Etymology 2 edit
From Tagalog mami, from Hokkien.
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mami (uncountable)
- (Philippines) mami, a soup dish of wheat noodles or cellophane noodles mixed with meat of either pork, chicken, pork liver, beef brisket, and/or fresh or dried seafood such as shrimp or squid, and/or wanton dumplings, and vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, spring onion, etc.
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mami
- inflection of mamar:
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mami f (indeclinable)
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mami (colloquial)
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Inflection of mami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mami | mamit | ||
genitive | mamin | mamien | ||
partitive | mamia | mameja | ||
illative | mamiin | mameihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mami | mamit | ||
accusative | nom. | mami | mamit | |
gen. | mamin | |||
genitive | mamin | mamien | ||
partitive | mamia | mameja | ||
inessive | mamissa | mameissa | ||
elative | mamista | mameista | ||
illative | mamiin | mameihin | ||
adessive | mamilla | mameilla | ||
ablative | mamilta | mameilta | ||
allative | mamille | mameille | ||
essive | mamina | mameina | ||
translative | mamiksi | mameiksi | ||
abessive | mamitta | mameitta | ||
instructive | — | mamein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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mami
- species of possum
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mami
- grandmother
- Synonym: granmer
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mami f (plural mamis)
- (informal) mommy
- (Central America, Philippines) mother
- (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) attractive woman; momma
- (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) a term of affection for a woman
- (Peru) a woman who runs a brothel; a madame
- (Honduras, derogatory) a homosexual man
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Further reading edit
- “mami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hokkien, either:
- 肉麵/肉面 (mah-mī, “meat and noodles soup”, literally “meat and noodles”), according to Chan-Yap (1980). Compare Cebuano bam-i, Indonesian bakmi, Javanese ꦧꦏ꧀ꦩꦶ (bakmi), Dutch bami. See also Hokkien 牛肉麵/牛肉面 (gû-mah-mī, “beef noodles”).
- 馬麵/马面 (má mī, literally “Ma’s noodles”), noodles peddled by Ma Mon Luk (馬文祿 / 马文禄, Cantonese Yale: Máh Màhn-luhk; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má Bûn Lo̍k) in his restaurant since the 1920s in Binondo, Manila.
Manuel (1948) also records an entry, providing the definitions and pronunciation of Hokkien 肉麵/肉面 (mah-mī, “meat and noodles soup”, literally “meat and noodles”), but misidentifies it as Cantonese.
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mami (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜋᜒ)
- mami (a soup dish of wheat noodles or cellophane noodles mixed with various meat and vegetables)
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- “mami” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “mami”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 138
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 40
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