mam

mam

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mam.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Mam terms

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Early Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”). Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

mam (plural mams)

1. (UK, Ireland, regional, informal, colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.
   • 2021, Glenda Young, The Miner's Lass:

     She'd sit by the fire, arms crossed, demanding that Ruby spike her tea with a cinder. But Ruby would never give in to her demands, no matter how much her mam begged. There was no alcohol in the house now; Arthur had made sure of that in an effort to get Mary sober.

• Used in place of mum or ma in Scotland, Northumbrian dialects such as Geordie, as well as throughout Ireland and Liverpool, Kingston upon Hull, and the South Wales valleys; the Welsh word for mother is mam.

• ma'am

• nuoc mam

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “mam”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “mam”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05.

• MMA, Amm, amm

From Proto-Bahnaric *maːm. Cognate with Sedang méam.

• IPA^(key): /maːm/

mam 

1. metal, iron, steel

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

mam

1. an address to a female superior
2. an address to a female teacher

Deverbal from mámit (“to deceive”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mam
• Rhymes: -am

mam m inan

1. (dated) fallacy, illusion, deception

   Synonyms: blud, klam

• “mam”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mam”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mam”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /mɑm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑm

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

1. mother (mum)

   Synonyms: moeder, moe

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Old Irish muimme (“foster mother”), Proto-Celtic *mammā.

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mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

1. mam, mum, mom

• maime
• mamaí

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

mam

1. grandfather

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mam

1. first-person singular present of měś

• mamk a hamk

mam

1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

From Proto-Central Chadic *ɗawɨm.

mam f

1. honey
2. bee
3. swarm

• S. Allison, Makary Kotoko Provisional Lexicon (SIL)
• R.C. Gravina, The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

mam f (plural (Föhr-Amrum) mamen or (Mooring) mamne)

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) mother, mum

   mam an aatj ― mother and father (Föhr-Amrum)

• In Mooring dialect it inflects in the same was as taatje (see there):

Hääst dü mamen sänj? ― Have you seen Mother?

Ik hääw anjörsne din mam sänj. ― I saw your mother yesterday.

• Mooter (Sylt)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmam/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: mam

mam

1. first-person singular present of mieć

mam

1. second-person singular imperative of mamić

mam f

1. genitive plural of mama

• mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mam

1. father

mam (Cyrillic spelling мам)

1. (Kajkavian) right now
2. (Kajkavian) immediately

• odmah

From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: mam

mam m or f (masculine and feminine plural mames)

1. (relational) Mam (of or relating to the Mam people)

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Idioma mam

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mam m (uncountable)

1. Mam (language)

mam m or f by sense (plural mam or mames)

1. Mam

• “mam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Middle Welsh mam, from Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mammā, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *mātīr.

• IPA^(key): /mam/

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• Rhymes: -am

mam f (plural mamau)

1. mother
2. ancestress
3. dam
4. queen bee

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

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

mam

1. father

mam

1. ancestor