different between maw vs mab

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /m?/
• Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,Norwegian mage (“stomach”)Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian ?????? (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:

     So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.

2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion

     To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
3. (slang, derogatory) The mouth.

   Synonyms: trap, yap

   Shut your maw!

4. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
5. Appetite; inclination.

   • Unless you had more maw to do me good.

Translations

Etymology 2

By shortening of mother

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

Etymology 3

See mew (“a gull”),måke (“a gull”)

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. A gull.

Anagrams

• WMA, awm, mwa

Abinomn

Noun

maw

1. butterfly

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ?/

Noun

maw m

1. boy

   Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.

   I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.

Synonyms

• mab

Mapudungun

Noun

maw (using Unified Alphabet)

1. rain

Middle English

Noun

maw

1. Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*mi?- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *ma?-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax ma?a, also Dahalo ma?a; Hebrew ???? (máyim),
Classical Syriac ???? (mayy?) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.

Noun

maw m (plural mawooyin m)

1. water container, water-jar

Reference

• Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “ma'wi”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 613

English

Noun

mab (plural mabs)

1. (obsolete) A slattern.

Verb

mab (third-person singular simple present mabs, present participle mabbing, simple past and past participle mabbed)

1. (obsolete) To dress untidily.

References

Webster, Noah (1828) , “mab”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language

Anagrams

• ABM, B. M. A., BMA, Bam, MBA, Mba, amb, amb., bam

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *mak?os.

Noun

mab m (plural mibien)

1. son

Inflection

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *mak?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mæ?b]

Noun

mab m (plural mebyon)

1. son
2. male child, boy

Synonyms

• (boy): maw

Derived terms

• mab-wynn

Mutation

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *mak?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?b/

Noun

mab m (plural meibion)

1. boy, son, infant, child (of either sex), minor, youth
2. descendant
3. man, male

Coordinate terms

• mam (“mother”)
• merch (“daughter”)
• tad (“father”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “mab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies