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Webster 1913 Edition


Amma


Am′ma

,
Noun.
[LL.
amma
, prob. of interjectional or imitative origin: cf. Sp.
ama
, G.
amme
, nurse, Basque
ama
mother, Heb.
[GREEK]m
, Ar.
immun
,
ummun
.]
An abbes or spiritual mother.

Webster 1828 Edition


Amma

AM'MA

,
Noun.
[Heb. mother.]
1.
An abbess or spiritual mother.
2.
A girdle or truss used in ruptures. [Gr.]

Definition 2024


Amma

Amma

See also: amma, ammā, and ämmä

Greenlandic

Alternative forms

  • (old orthography) Áma

Proper noun

Amma

  1. A female given name.

Related terms

References

  • Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, ISBN 978-87-990324-3-3
  • Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

amma

amma

See also: Amma, ammā, and ämmä

English

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

  1. mother

Usage notes

  • Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

See also

Etymology 2

Late Latin amma, probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare Spanish ama, German Amme, nurse, Basque ama mother, Hebrew, Arabic.

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

  1. An abbess or spiritual mother.

Anagrams


Azeri

Adverb

Template:az-adv

  1. yet

Bole

Noun

àmma

  1. water

References

  • Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
  • Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3: m- (2007, ISBN 9789004164123), page 201:
    [] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: [] BT *hama [Stl.] = *am- [Schuh], Bole ˀame [Schuh] = aməi [Schuh] = àmmá [Schuh] []

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (Revived Late Cornish) abma

Etymology

From amm (kiss).

Verb

amma

  1. to kiss

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse amma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈamːa/
  • Rhymes: -amːa

Noun

amma f (genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

  1. grandmother, grandma, granny

Declension

Derived terms


Kirfi

Noun

amma

  1. water

References

  • Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ISBN 9042908262), page 38
  • Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Latin

Etymology

Pokorny[1] suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (mother). Compare Latin amita (paternal aunt), Latin anus (crone) and Old High German amma (wet nurse).

Noun

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension

  1. A nocturnal bird

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative amma ammae
genitive ammae ammārum
dative ammae ammīs
accusative ammam ammās
ablative ammā ammīs
vocative amma ammae

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “am(m)a”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 36-37

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

amma m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of amme

Verb

amma

  1. simple past of amme
  2. past participle of amme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

amma f

  1. definite singular of amme

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (mother).

Noun

amma f

  1. wet nurse

Descendants


Old Norse

Noun

amma f

  1. grandmother

Descendants

Declension


Turkish

Adverb

amma

  1. yet

See also