mama

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Alternative formsEdit

• mamma
• momma

EtymologyEdit

From a reduplication of ma; a trend present in many Indo-European languages, probably with ultimate origin in baby talk; or perhaps representing, in altered form, a continuation of 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”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mama (plural mamas)

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

Related termsEdit

• mom
• mommy
• mother
• mum
• mummy

TranslationsEdit

AnagramsEdit

• amma
• ma'am

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ma.ma/

NounEdit

mama

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

   tatanak mamanaka

   ladies and gentlemen

EtymologyEdit

From English or French mama.

NounEdit

mama

1. mother

SynonymsEdit

• naha

Coordinate termsEdit

• (with regards to gender): papa

PronunciationEdit

• audio

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmaː/

NounEdit

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

1. mama, mother

   Mama, ik heb honger!

   Mommy, I’m hungry!

SynonymsEdit

• ma, mam
• moeder, moe, moeke (Flemish)

NounEdit

mama

1. grandmother

VerbEdit

mama

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mama (plural mamák)

1. mom

DeclensionEdit

SynonymsEdit

• anya

Derived termsEdit

• nagymama
• pótmama

NounEdit

mama (plural mamai)

1. mama, mom, mommy, mum

SynonymsEdit

• matro

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mamma.

NounEdit

mama f

1. mom, mamma, mother

See alsoEdit

• mare

PronounEdit

mama

1. you

NounEdit

mama f (plural mamos)

1. mother

DeclensionEdit

Related termsEdit

• mamytė, mamelė (diminutive)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈmama]

NounEdit

mama f (diminutive maminka)

1. mother, mom

DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

mama

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

ReferencesEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mama/

NounEdit

mama

1. paternal uncle, one’s father’s brother

ReferencesEdit

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

NounEdit

mama

1. mother

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mama/

NounEdit

mama

1. Father; paternal uncle, one’s father’s brother.

SynonymsEdit

• papu (father)

ReferencesEdit

• 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.

NounEdit

mama

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

SynonymsEdit

• punari

Derived termsEdit

• mama maḻatja
• mama ngunytju
• mama puḻka
• maṟa mama
• tjina mama

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmama/

• audio

  (file)

NounEdit

mama f

1. mum

DeclensionEdit

Related termsEdit

• mamusia (diminutive)
• matka

External linksEdit

• “mama” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mamma.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mama f (plural mamas)

1. boob, boobie
2. udder
3. teat

VerbEdit

mama

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of mamar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mamar

NounEdit

mama

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

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

• tayta

NounEdit

mama f (singular, nominative/accusative, definite form of mamă)

1. the mother

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ма)

1. mom

DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

mama f, declension pattern žena

1. mama

Derived termsEdit

• mamička f

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mamma.

NounEdit

mama f (plural mamas)

1. breast, mamma

Related termsEdit

• mamar
• mamífero

VerbEdit

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.

NounEdit

mama (n class, plural mama)

1. mother (female parent)

Coordinate termsEdit

• baba

EtymologyEdit

English mama

NounEdit

mama

1. mother
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:20 (translation here):

     Man i kolim meri bilong em Iv, long wanem, em i tumbuna mama bilong olgeta manmeri.

AntonymsEdit

• papa

Derived termsEdit

• mama karim

NounEdit

mama (definite accusative mamayı, plural mamalar)

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

DeclensionEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Italian mamma

NounEdit

mama f (plural mame)

1. mother
2. mum, mummy

EtymologyEdit

Compare Guugu Yimidhirr mayi.

NounEdit

mama

1. (vegetable-based) food

ReferencesEdit

• 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)