English edit

Etymology edit

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Early Scots mame (mother), mamye (wet nurse), Saterland Frisian Määme (mother), West Frisian mem (mother). Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

Noun edit

mam (plural mams)

  1. (UK, Ireland, regional, informal, colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.
    • 2021, Glenda Young, The Miner's Lass:
      She'd sit by the fire, arms crossed, demanding that Ruby spike her tea with a cinder. But Ruby would never give in to her demands, no matter how much her mam begged. There was no alcohol in the house now; Arthur had made sure of that in an effort to get Mary sober.

Usage notes edit

See also edit

See also edit

References edit

  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams edit

Bahnar edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bahnaric *maːm. Cognate with Sedang méam.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mam 

  1. metal, iron, steel

Derived terms edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

Noun edit

mam

  1. An address to a female superior.
  2. An address to a female teacher.

Czech edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from mámit (to deceive).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmam]
  • Hyphenation: mam
  • Rhymes: -am

Noun edit

mam m inan

  1. (dated) fallacy, illusion, deception
    Synonyms: blud, klam

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • mam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • mam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • mam in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mɑm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun edit

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

  1. mother

Irish edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Old Irish muimme (foster mother), Proto-Celtic *mammā.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

  1. mam, mum, mom

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mam mham not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

K'iche' edit

Noun edit

mam

  1. grandfather

Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

mam

  1. first-person singular present of měś

Derived terms edit

Luxembourgish edit

Contraction edit

mam

  1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

Mpade edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Central Chadic *ɗawɨm.

Noun edit

mam f

  1. honey
  2. bee
  3. swarm

References edit

North Frisian edit

Etymology edit

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

Noun edit

mam f (plural mamen)

  1. (Mooring, Föhr-Amrum) mother
    mam an aatj
    mother and father

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

mam

  1. first-person singular present of mieć

Verb edit

mam

  1. second-person singular imperative of mamić

Noun edit

mam f

  1. genitive plural of mama

Further reading edit

  • mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Q'anjob'al edit

Noun edit

mam

  1. father

Serbo-Croatian edit

Adverb edit

mam (Cyrillic spelling мам)

  1. (Kajkavian) right now
  2. (Kajkavian) immediately

Related terms edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmam/ [ˈmãm]
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: mam

Adjective edit

mam m or f (masculine and feminine plural mames)

  1. (relational) Mam (of or relating to the Mam people)

Noun edit

 
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mam m (uncountable)

  1. Mam (language)

Noun edit

mam m or f by sense (plural mam or mames)

  1. Mam

Further reading edit

Welsh edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Welsh mam, from Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mammā, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *mātīr.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mam f (plural mamau)

  1. mother
  2. ancestress
  3. dam
  4. queen bee

Usage notes edit

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (her). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

Coordinate terms edit

  • mab (son)
  • merch (daughter)
  • tad (father)

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged mham
Irregular.
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wemba-Wemba edit

Noun edit

mam

  1. father

Yucatec Maya edit

Noun edit

mam

  1. ancestor