мома

According to Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, of babbling origin similar to ма́ма (máma, “mom”), на́на (nána, “aunty, female relative”). No exact cognates outside of Balkan Slavic (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian), thus, possibly a neologism. Formally, may result from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to mature, to ripen”) (whence perhaps Proto-Celtic *makʷos (“son”)).

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ma

мома́ • (momá) f (masculine мо́мък, diminutive моме́)

1. female equivalent of мо́мък (mómǎk): young woman or girl, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, damsel
2. female equivalent of мо́мък (mómǎk): unmarried woman
3. virgin

   Synonyms: девица (devica), девственица (devstvenica)

• мо́мък (mómǎk, “lad, mate”)
  • момче́ (momčé, “boy”)
  • мо́мкиня (mómkinja, “servant, female mate”)

• “мома”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мома”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “мома́”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 79
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мома”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 224

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: мо‧ма

мо́ма • (móma) f (plural мо́ми, relational adjective мо́мин or мо́мински, diminutive мо́ме or мо́менце or мо́миче or мо́мичка)

1. (folk poetic, regional) young woman, lass, maiden, damsel
2. (folk poetic, regional) unmarried woman
3. a thin slice of bread

• “мома” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu