mama
noun/məˈmɑː/UK/ˈmɑmə/US/ˈmɐmə/
Etymology
Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Old English *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, 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”).
- derived from *méh₂-méh₂✻
- derived from *mōmā✻
- derived from *mōme✻
Definitions
Mother, female parent.
- All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard / All died when you went away
a Bantoid language spoken in Nigeria
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mama. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA