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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

English

Noun

umma (plural ummas)

1. Alternative spelling of ummah

Anagrams

• Mamu, Muma, maum

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?umma, “community”).

Noun

umma f (plural umme)

1. (Islam) ummah

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?umaq, from Proto-Austronesian *?umaq. Compare Indonesian rumah.

Noun

umma

1. house

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “umma”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 96

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

umma m (definite singular ummaen, indefinite plural ummaer, definite plural ummaene)

1. (Islam) ummah

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

umma m (definite singular ummaen, indefinite plural ummaer or ummaar, definite plural ummaene or ummaane)

1. (Islam) ummah

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

Noun

úmmá 1a (plural ábómmá 2a)

1. mother

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

umma (u class, no plural)

1. the public or populace, the general population

Yogad

Noun

ummá

1. kiss