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mam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mam.

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English

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Etymology

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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.

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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.

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Anagrams

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Bahnar

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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mam 

  1. metal, iron, steel

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

Noun

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mam

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

Czech

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Etymology

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Deverbal from mámit (to deceive).

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

Noun

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mam m inan

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

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Further reading

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

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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

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mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

  1. mother (mum)
    Synonyms: moeder, moe

Irish

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Etymology

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(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.

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Noun

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mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

  1. mam, mum, mom

Declension

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Declension of mam (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative mam mamanna
vocative a mham a mhamanna
genitive maime mamanna
dative mam mamanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mham na mamanna
genitive na maime na mamanna
dative leis an mam
don mham
leis na mamanna

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of mam
radical lenition eclipsis
mam mham not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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K'iche'

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Noun

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mam

  1. grandfather

Lower Sorbian

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Verb

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mam

  1. first-person singular present of měś

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Luxembourgish

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Contraction

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mam

  1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

Mpade

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Etymology

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From Proto-Central Chadic *ɗawɨm.

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mam f

  1. honey
  2. bee
  3. swarm

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North Frisian

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Etymology

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Cognates include West Frisian mem.

Noun

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mam f (plural (Föhr-Amrum) mamen or (Mooring) mamne)

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

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  • In Mooring dialect it inflects in the same was as taatje (see there):
Hääst dü mamen sänj?Have you seen Mother?
Ik hääw anjörsne din mam sänj.I saw your mother yesterday.

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Polish

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Verb

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mam

  1. first-person singular present of mieć

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mam

  1. second-person singular imperative of mamić

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mam f

  1. genitive plural of mama

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  • mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Q'anjob'al

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Noun

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mam

  1. father

Serbo-Croatian

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Adverb

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mam (Cyrillic spelling мам)

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

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Etymology

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From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

Pronunciation

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

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mam m or f (masculine and feminine plural mames)

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

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mam m (uncountable)

  1. Mam (language)

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

  1. Mam

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Welsh

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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mam f (plural mamau)

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

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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

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

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of mam
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged mham

Irregular.

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • 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

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Noun

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mam

  1. father

Yucatec Maya

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mam

  1. ancestor