ماموں
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Urdu
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Alternative forms
- مامُوں جان (māmū̃ jān) (endearing)
Etymology
From مامُو (māmū), an endearing diminutive of ماما (māmā), from Sanskrit माम (māma), itself Proto-Dravidian *māma.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɑː.mũː/
- Rhymes: -ũː
- Hyphenation: ما‧مُوں
Noun
مامُوں • (māmū̃) m (feminine مامی (māmī) or مُمانی (mumānī), Hindi spelling मामूँ)
Further reading
- “ماموں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ماموں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ماموں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مامون”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ماما”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.