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English

Etymology 1

Amharic ??? (?ämba)

Noun

amba (plural ambas)

1. A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (?amba) and Hebrew ?????; ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba (uncountable)

1. A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.

Anagrams

• AABM, AMAB, BAAM, BMAA, Bama, MAAB, bama

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.ba?/

Noun

amba

1. lowing or mooing sound of cattle

Verb

amba

1. to moo, low as of cattle

Synonyms

• inga

Hiligaynon

Verb

ámba

1. chant, sing

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ampa/

  Rhymes: -ampa

Noun

amba f (genitive singular ömbu, nominative plural ömbur)

1. Alternative form of amaba

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: àm?ba

Etymology 1

From Amharic ??? (?ämba).

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (geology) A characteristic landform in Ethiopia, consisting of a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (chiefly in the plural) circumlocution, periphrasis

   Synonyms: (formal) circonlocuzione, (colloquial) giro di parole, perifrasi

References

• amba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Kanufi

Noun

amba

1. plural of uwa

References

• Roger Blench, The Anib (=Kanufi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities, page 3, 2011

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàmba (“to stretch and peg a hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ba/

Verb

amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to peg (out), to pitch
2. to stretch out
3. to do first

Derived terms

• kwambata

• mwambato 3

• kwamb?r?ria

• k?amb?r?ria 7
• mwamb?r?rio 3

• rwambo 11

• rwambo r?mwe r?tiambaga ndarwa

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “amba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba m

1. the mango tree, Magifera indica

Declension

Noun

amba n

1. the mango fruit

Declension

Related terms

• ambaphala (“mango fruit”)

References

• “amba”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba

1. vocative singular of amb? (“mummy”)

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

amba-

1. which; who (relative pronoun)

Inflection

Verb

-amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to say, to explain

Conjugation

Derived terms

• chambo
• jambo

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

amba

1. to speak

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

-amba

1. to be sarcastic

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “amba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “amba (6.6-3)”

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm?/
• Rhymes: -æm?

Etymology 1

Related to Tamil ????? (amm?, “Mother”), Hindi ????? (amm?), Malayalam ???? (amma), Kannada ???? (amma, “mother”) Telugu ???? (amma, “mother”), Sinhalese ????? (amm?, “mother”), or Classical Syriac ???? (Emma, “Mother”)

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

1. mother

Usage notes

• Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

See also

• amah

Etymology 2

Late Latin amma, probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare Spanish ama, German Amme, Basque ama.

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

1. An abbess or spiritual mother.

Anagrams

• ma ma, ma'am, mama

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ??????? (?amm?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m??]
• (Karabakh) IPA^(key): [??mb?] (as if spelled amba)

Conjunction

amma

1. but

   Synonyms: ancaq, f?q?t

Bole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

àmma

1. water

References

• Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *h?m) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] BT *hama [Stl.] = *am- [Schuh], Bole ?ame [Schuh] = am?i [Schuh] = àmmá [Schuh] […]

Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Revived Late Cornish) abma

Etymology

From amm (“kiss”).

Verb

amma

1. to kiss

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish amma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??/, [??m??]
• Rhymes: -?m??
• Syllabification: am?ma

Noun

amma

1. wet nurse
2. nanny

Declension

Derived terms

• ammata (“tend to a child”)

See also

• amme
• ammentaa
• emo
• emä
• ämmi
• ämmä

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?amm?).

Conjunction

àmm?

1. but

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse amma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am?a/
• Rhymes: -am?a

Noun

amma f (genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

1. grandmother, grandma, granny

Declension

Derived terms

• kalla ekki allt ömmu sína
• langamma

Kirfi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

amma

1. water

References

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN, page 38
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Latin

Etymology

Pokorny suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”). Compare Latin amita (“paternal aunt”), Latin anus (“crone”) and Old High German amma (“wet nurse”).

Noun

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension

1. A nocturnal bird, perhaps the screech owl.
   • c. 600, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, XII.vii.42:

     Haec avis [viz. strix] vulgo amma dicitur, ab amando parvulos; unde et lac praebere fertur nascentibus.

     This bird is commonly called "amma" ["mum"?], because it loves its young, and it is also said to offer milk to its hatchlings.

Usage notes

Based on etymological evidence and the reference to milk in the Isidore quote, it is suspected that this word actually meant "mother", along similar lines to atta (“father”).

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• amma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of noun) ammen
• (of verb) ammet

Noun

amma m or f

1. definite feminine singular of amme

Verb

amma

1. inflection of amme:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

amma (present tense ammar, past tense amma, past participle amma, present participle ammande, imperative am)

1. Alternative form of amme

Noun

amma f (definite singular amma, indefinite plural ammer or ammor, definite plural ammene or ammone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by amme
2. definite singular of amme

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *amm? (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *amma (“mother”).

Noun

amma f

1. wet nurse

Descendants

• German: Amme

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *amm? (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *amma (“mother”).

Noun

amma f (genitive ?mmu, plural ?mmur)

1. grandmother

Declension

Descendants

• Faroese: omma f
• Icelandic: amma f

References

• amma in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

amma

1. vocative singular of amm? (“mummy”)
2. familiar term of address to a woman

References

“amma”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Swedish

Etymology

From Low German amme; compare with German Amme (“wet nurse”). Verb derived from noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ama/

Noun

amma c

1. a wet nurse

Declension

Verb

amma (present ammar, preterite ammade, supine ammat, imperative amma)

1. to breastfeed

Conjugation

References

• amma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• amma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagabawa

Noun

ámmà

1. father

Turkish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

amma

1. yet

See also

• ama
• âmâ