mamma

Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæmə/

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• Rhymes: -æmə

mamma (plural mammae or mammas)

1. (anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
   • 1880, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, page 434:

     Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.

2. (meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

mamma (plural mammas)

1. Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.

• “mamma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

mamma f

1. (Gressoney) mom, mama

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.maː/

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• Hyphenation: mam‧ma
• Rhymes: -ɑmaː

mamma f (plural mamma's, diminutive mammaatje n)

1. Alternative form of mama

Borrowed from Latin mamma.

mamma f (plural mamma's or mammae)

1. mamma, breast

   Synonym: borst

Most people will use this word as an alternative spelling of mama (“mother”).

• momma

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamːa/
• Rhymes: -amːa

mamma f (genitive singular mammu, plural mammur)

1. mom, mum (colloquial word for mother)

   Synonym: móðir

   Hvar er mamma mín?

   Where is my mommy?

From Swedish mamma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mam‧ma

mamma

1. (dialectal) mama

   Synonym: äiti

2. (colloquial) An elder, plump woman.

   Synonym: tantta

• “mamma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

mamma (plural mamma)

1. mammary gland
2. mummy; mom; mum

mamma

1. to suck the breast

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamːa/
• Rhymes: -amːa

mamma f (genitive singular mömmu, nominative plural mömmur)

1. mom, mum (colloquial word for mother)

   Synonym: móðir

   Hvar er mamma mín?

   Where is my mommy?

• mamma in Hólmarsson et al.: Íslensk-ensk orðabók. 1989.
• “mamma” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

mamma (plural mammas)

1. mamma

• mammari

From Latin mamma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmam.ma/

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• Rhymes: -amma
• Hyphenation: màm‧ma

mamma f (plural mamme)

1. mom (US), mommy (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)
2. mother
3. type of artichoke

• madre
• cimarolo

• mamma mia

• mamma in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Uncertain. Either a native childish term of onomatopoeic origin, or borrowed from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.ma/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.ma/,

mamma f (genitive mammae); first declension

1. (anatomy) breast

   Puero isti date mammam.

   Give that boy of yours your breast .

2. (anatomy) udder; pap
3. (anatomy, of animals) teat, dug

   mammam sugere ― to suck on a breast

4. (childish) mama (mother)

   Cum cibum ac potionem buas ac papas vocent, matrem mammam, patrem tatam.

   Since children call food and drink bua and papa, mother mamma and father tata.

5. (by extension) a protuberance on tree bark

• This term was used especially of females, but also of males – although rarely:

  Mammas homo solus e maribus habet.

  Among male animals, man alone has breasts.

First-declension noun.

• “mamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mamma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mamma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mamma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

mamma f (4th declension)

1. mum
2. mother

• mamma at tezaurs.lv

• IPA^(key): /mama/,

mamma m (definite singular mammaen, indefinite plural mammaer, definite plural mammaene)

1. mother

   Synonym: mor

• far, pappa
• bror, søster, søsken
• sønn, datter

• “mamma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /mama/,

mamma f (definite singular mammaa, indefinite plural mammaer, definite plural mammaene)

1. mother

   Synonym: mor

• far, pappa
• bror, syster, sysken
• son, dotter

• “mamma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mamma n

1. a vital spot of the body
2. nerve center

• mama, mumma, moma

From Latin mamma.

mamma f (plural mammas)

1. mother

• (with regards to gender): bab
• (with regards to ancestry): figl, figlia

Uncertain. Either a native childish term of onomatopoeic origin, or borrowed from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē).

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mamma c

1. mom (US), mommy (US), mama (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)

   Synonyms: mor, moder, (slang) morsa, (definite, colloquial) mamsen

   Antonym: pappa

   Han älskar sin mamma.

   He loves his mom.

The most common and neutral word for mother.

• din mamma
• mammas död

• mamma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mamma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)