- Informal mother
- Slang a woman
Origin of mama
like Classical Latin mamma, mother, Sanskrit m?, Classical Greek mamm? from baby talkmama
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mama
or mam·ma also mom·ma
noun
- Informal Mother.
- Slang a. A woman.b. A wife.
Origin of mama
Of baby-talk origin ; see mā-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Anagrams
- amma
- ma'am
Origin
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 *mÅmÇ (“mother, aunt"), from Proto-Indo-European *méhâ‚‚-méhâ‚‚, reduplication of *méhâ‚‚- (“mother"), related to German Muhme (“aunt"), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse"), Irish mam (“mother"), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother").
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