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Mama

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Mama

Mama

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mama"

German

Alternative forms

  • Mamma

Noun

Mama f ‎(genitive Mama or Mamas, plural Mamas)

  1. mum, mummy, mom, mommy

Usage notes

  • The word is commonly used with a definite article in most parts of central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria: Wo ist die Mama? – “Where is Mum?” In northern Germany—and generally in writing—no article tends to be used: Wo ist Mama?
  • The genitive Mamas is used before the modified term, without any article or determiner: Mamas Tasche – “Mum’s bag”. This is chiefly northern German usage; the rest of the language prefers: die Tasche von der Mama (as above). — With an accompanying article or determiner, the genitive takes no ending: die Tasche meiner Mama – “my mum’s bag”. This, however, is not common usage in any region; children will say instead: die Tasche von meiner Mama.

Derived terms

  • Mami (affectionate)

Synonyms

mama

mama

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mama"

English

Alternative forms

Noun

mama ‎(plural mamas)

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

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

Aukan

Etymology

From English mama.

Noun

mama

  1. mother
  2. woman

Synonyms

Aymara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.ma/

Noun

mama

  1. mother
  2. Mrs., mistress (general respectful address for married women).
    tatanak mamanaka
    ladies and gentlemen

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ma‧ma

Noun

mama

  1. A mother; a (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.
  2. A term of address to one's mother, mother-in-law or wife.

Synonyms

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

From English or French mama.

Noun

mama

  1. mother

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

  • (with regards to gender): papa

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑmaː/
  • (Belgium) IPA(key): /mɑˈmaː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Noun

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

  1. mama, mother
    Mama, ik heb honger!
    Mommy, I’m hungry!

Synonyms

Ewe

Noun

mama

  1. grandmother

Galician

Verb

mama

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒmɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ma

Noun

mama ‎(plural mamák)

  1. mom

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative mama mamák
accusative mamát mamákat
dative mamának mamáknak
instrumental mamával mamákkal
causal-final mamáért mamákért
translative mamává mamákká
terminative mamáig mamákig
essive-formal mamaként mamákként
essive-modal — —
inessive mamában mamákban
superessive mamán mamákon
adessive mamánál mamáknál
illative mamába mamákba
sublative mamára mamákra
allative mamához mamákhoz
elative mamából mamákból
delative mamáról mamákról
ablative mamától mamáktól
Possessive forms of mama
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mamám mamáim
2nd person sing. mamád mamáid
3rd person sing. mamája mamái
1st person plural mamánk mamáink
2nd person plural mamátok mamáitok
3rd person plural mamájuk mamáik

Synonyms

Derived terms

Ido

Noun

mama (plural mamai)

  1. mama, mom, mommy, mum

Synonyms

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mamma.

Noun

mama f

  1. mom, mamma, mother

See also

Krisa

Pronoun

mama

  1. you

Lithuanian

Noun

mama f ‎(plural mamos)

  1. mother

Declension

Related terms

  • mamytė, mamelė (diminutive)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmama]

Noun

mama f ‎(diminutive maminka)

  1. mother, mom

Declension

Maquiritari

Noun

mama

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

References

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

Martuthunira

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mama/

Noun

mama

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

References

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

Nigerian Pidgin

Noun

mama

  1. mother

Panyjima

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mama/

Noun

mama

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

Synonyms

References

  • 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.

Pitjantjatjara

Noun

mama

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmama/

Noun

mama f

  1. mum

Declension

Related terms

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mammella, French mamelle.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmɐ.mɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ma
  • Rhymes: -ama

Noun

mama f (plural mamas)

  1. (human) breast, bosom
  2. (animal) udder, teat

Verb

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

Quechua

Noun

mama

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

Declension

See also

Romanian

Noun

mama f

  1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of mamă.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȁma f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ма̏ма)

  1. mom

Declension

Slovak

Noun

mama f ‎(genitive singular mamy, nominative plural mamy, declension pattern of žena)

  1. mama

Declension

Derived terms

  • mamička f

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mamma.

Noun

mama f ‎(plural mamas)

  1. breast, mamma

Related terms

Verb

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.

Swahili

Noun

mama (n class, plural mama)

  1. mother (female parent)
  2. Respectful term of address for an older woman.

Coordinate terms

  • baba ‎(“father”)

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.maʔ/

Noun

mama

  1. a term used in referring to, or in addressing, a male unknown to the speaker

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ma.ˈma/

Etymology

From Spanish mamá, adapted from French maman.

Noun

mama

  1. (colloquial, familiar) mum, mom

Pronunciation 3

  • IPA(key): /ma.ˈmaʔ/

Noun

mama

  1. betel chewing

Related terms

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English mama

Noun

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.

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • mama karim
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Turkish

Noun

mama ‎(definite accusative mamayı, plural mamalar)

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

Declension

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mamma.

Noun

mama f (plural mame)

  1. mother
  2. mum, mummy

Wanyi

Etymology

Compare Guugu Yimidhirr mayi.

Noun

mama

  1. (vegetable-based) food

References

  • 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)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmama/ (commonly)
  • IPA(key): /maˈmaː/ (obsolete, lofty)
  • Rhymes: -aː

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