अम्बा

Inherited from Sanskrit अम्बा (ambā), Doublet of अम्मा (ammā). Compare Bengali অম্বা (omba), Sinhalese අම්බා (ambā), ਅਮ੍ਬਾ (ambā), Kannada ಅಮ್ಬೀ (ambī), Assamese অম্বা (ma), Odia ଅମ୍ବା (ambā), Marathi अंबा (ambā), Nepali आमा (āmā).

• IPA^(key):

अम्बा • (ambā) ?

1. mother

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:माँ

अम्बा f

1. Devanagari script form of ambā (“mummy”)

अम्बा (ambā)

1. Devanagari script form of ambā, which is ablative singular of अम्ब (amba, “mango”)
2. Devanagari script form of ambā, which is nominative/vocative plural of अम्ब (amba, “mango tree”)

• अम्ब (amba)

Related to अम्बी (ambī, “mother”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐm.bɑ́ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐm.bɑː/

अम्बा • (ambā́) stem, f

1. a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)

अम्बा • (ambā) stem, f

1. (Hinduism) name of Hindu goddess Durga
2. name of a daughter of a king of Kasi in Mahabharata

• → Assamese: অম্বা (omba)
• → Bengali: অম্বা (omba)
• → Burmese: အမ္ဗာ (amba)
• → Gujarati: અમ્બા (ambā)
• → Hindi: अम्मा (ammā), अम्बा (ambā), अंबा (ambā)
• → Javanese: ꦄꦩ꧀ꦧꦴ (ambā)
• → Kannada: ಅಂಬಾ (ambā)
• → Khmer: អម្ពា (ʼɑmpiə)
• → Marathi: अम्बा (ambā)
• → Malayalam: അംബാ (ambā)
• → Nepali: अम्बा (ambā)
• → Odia: ଅମ୍ବା (ambā)
• → Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਬਾ (ambā)
• → Sinhalese: අම්බා (ambā)
• → Telugu: అంబా (ambā)
• → Thai: อมฺพา
• → Tibetan: ཨ་མ (a ma), ཨམྦཱ (mbā)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अम्बा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 83/2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 100