mama
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈmɑːmə/
- Baby Talk
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mamá
- Good morning, Mama.
- mama and papa
- mama and daddy
- mama bear
Please welcome Anthony Anderson and his Mama, Doris Bowman.
- Please welcome Anthony Anderson and his Mama, Doris Bowman.
- A mother, you don't mess with Mama bear when she's got Cubs.
- I can almost hear Mama pray for my restless soul.
- We're going to a wedding, so Mama wants to look snatched.
- You get mad because you lost your Mama, that's dirt.
- And Durham Region is the Mama bear of Pickering and Ajax.
- And she says Mama want to play.
- So your aggression, the Mama bear behavior can come up.
- Channing has a saying that he got his mama's penis, right.
- Like when you're good, good to Mama, Mama good.
- They're saving themselves from Mama or for each other.
Examples
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I love spending time with my mama on weekends.
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When I was scared, I would always run to my mama for comfort.
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Yes give it to me Mama, give it to me.
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I know what this is because my Mama put this on lots of things.
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And he said to me, Mama, this is your fault.
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Probably the one good thing my mama taught me and my brother.
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Hey big boy, you wanna help Mama clean?
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"Is she still with that man?" Mama asked me once, and I just said, "No."
Fiction book (1990) -
Then I said, Mama, I'm so sorry.
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If I asked, "Where were you born, mama?" she'd say, "You know where I was born, darling."
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A woman who has given birth to a child
∞
1.0
A woman who has a child and cares for them
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1.0
A child's word for mom
735
7.9
A friendly informal name people use for their mother
223
1.9
A woman who gave you birth or cared for you
202
7.7
A child's informal name for their mother
98
5.6
A child's word for their mother
32
7.5
A woman who cares for a child and helps them grow
24
9.8
A woman who is a mother or cares for children
19
9.1
An informal name for a mother used in some English-speaking areas
12
9.9
An informal word people use for mother
5
8.2
A polite, affectionate word for mother used in parts of the UK and Ireland
5
8.8
A warm, informal word for a mother in Spanish-speaking families
2
9.5
A child's loving word for mother
2
9.0
A word children use for their mother
2
7.9
A loving name a child uses for their mother
Respectful or loving word for mother used in South Asian families
A warm informal name used for a mother in Urdu and Hindi
A loving word for mother used in Wales
Compounds
How Childlike
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mama comes from the simple baby sound ma that babies often make, so many languages use mama or mamma to mean 'mother'. So, mama is an informal word used by children for 'mother', like English mom.