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Mama

//ˈmɑmə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Mother, female parent. Canada, US, childish, familiar, usually

    "All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard / All died when you went away"

  2. 2
    informal terms for a mother wordnet

Etymology

Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Old English *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”).

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