mama
Synonym of motherSynonym of mother (“a female parent”).
» The children called Tom a mama's boy.
Die Kinder bezeichneten Tom als Mamasöhnchen.
Дети называли Тома маменькиным сынком.
Дети обзывали Тома маменькиным сынком.
Значение
значений: 11(Канада, США, childish, часто)Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
I love the cookies which mama bakes me every week.
informal terms for a mother
Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
(Канада, США, childish, переносно, часто)Synonym of mother (“an origin, a source”).
A lesbian partner.
(Caribbean, разговорное)Used as a (respectful) term of address for a woman, especially an older one.
(сленг)A girlfriend.
(сленг)A wife.
I need to talk to mama before I buy the car.
(сленг)A woman regarded as sexually attractive or (derogatory) promiscuous.
Whoa, that chick in the bikini is a real mama!
Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
(Южная Африка, familiar, разговорное, часто, нечастое)Used as a (respectful) term of address for one's mother.
(Южная Африка, разговорное, нечастое)A middle-aged black woman.
A middle-aged black woman.
(Южная Африка, familiar, разговорное, часто, нечастое)Often in the form Mama: used as a (respectful) term of address for an adult woman.
Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
(Канада, США, childish, устаревшее, часто)Used preceding a name as a title for a mother.
a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped, meaning ‘Mother’
Примеры
предложений: 51The children called Tom a mama's boy.
Дети называли Тома маменькиным сынком.
deDie Kinder bezeichneten Tom als Mamasöhnchen.
Tom used to be a mama's boy.
Том раньше был маменькиным сынком.
deTom war früher ein Mamakind.
Tom is a mama's boy.
Том - маменькин сыночек.
deTom ist ein Muttersöhnchen.
Don't be a mama's boy.
Не будь маменькиным сынком!
deSei kein Muttersöhnchen!
Where's my mama?
Где мама?
ukДе моя мама?
deWo ist meine Mama?
Происхождение
The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is probably a reduplication of ma, thought to be aThe origin of the noun is uncertain; it is probably a reduplication of ma, thought to be a sound made by babies when breastfeeding. The word is possibly influenced by Middle French maman (“mother”) (modern French maman), mamme (both probably from Latin mamma (“breast; nurse; (childish) mother, mama; grandmother”), probably cognate with Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mắmmē, “breast; (childish) mother, mama; (Koine) grandmother”), both possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to nurse; mama, mother”)), but this is also uncertain as all the words could have developed independently as onomatopoeias.
Borrowed from Xhosa umama and Zulu umama, sometimes only distinguishable from English mama (see etymology 1) by the context and pronunciation.
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