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mama

ma·ma

mama · mamas

мати, мама, матір

мать, матушка

Mutter, Mama, Mutti

Synonym of motherSynonym of mother (“a female parent”).

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UK/ˈmæmə/US/ˈmɑmə/

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Wo ist meine Mama?

Где мама?

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Де мама?

Значення

значень: 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, розмовне)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”).
(Південна Африка, familiar, розмовне, часто, рідкісне)Used as a (respectful) term of address for one's mother.
(Південна Африка, розмовне, рідкісне)A middle-aged black woman.
A middle-aged black woman.
(Південна Африка, familiar, розмовне, часто, рідкісне)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, застаріле, часто)Used preceding a name as a title for a mother.
a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped, meaning ‘Mother’

Приклади

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Where's my mama?
Де моя мама?
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deWo ist meine Mama?
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Mama, why is that person crying?
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Mama, is it okay if I go swimming?
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I'm not your mama.
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Tom was always a mama's boy.
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Походження

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is probably a reduplication of ma, thought to be a

The 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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