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🧑‍🦰 A woman's name 👵 A grandmother
Oma

Oma

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A woman's given name used in some countries
  • proper noun
translation icon : Oma
  • Thanks, Oma.
  • Oma Kohoutek
  • Oma Guralnik
  • Oma said

Examples

  • "Oma, where are the meatballs?"

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Don't worry, Oma, I got it.

    Memorial Day (2011)

  • Our Oma's health was declining and Dan just really needed to see her.

    Daniel (2023)

  • Daydreams of a past world best told by his Oma and Opa in person.

    Daniel (2023)

  • "They're in the refrigerator," replied Oma.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • It's not Thanksgiving, Oma.

    Memorial Day (2011)

  • I'm thankful for Oma's chocolate chip cookies, that Opa's not mad about the vase.

    Memorial Day (2011)

  • She attended Mass with great regularity; little children called her Oma, and she laid sugar cookies in their outstretched hands as if distributing the host.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Probably sitting on the rocking chair sipping Oma's lemonade and listening for the meadowlark... the eastern meadowlark.

    Memorial Day (2011)

  • Oma loves to tell stories about her childhood during family gatherings.

Surface Forms

Oma main

Etymology

Oma is also used as a woman's given name in different cultures and can come from different language roots, so when you meet someone called Oma it may be her personal name, not the word for a grandmother.