mamma

English

Etymology 1

From Latin mamma.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmæmə/
• Rhymes: -æmə

Noun

mamma (plural mammae or mammas)

1. (anatomy) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Derived terms

mammal mammalgia mammaplasty mammary mammate mammatroph mammectomy mammiform

mammilla mammiplasia mammitis mammoplasia mammogen mammogenesis mammogram mammography

mammose mammosomatotrope mammosomatotroph mammotomy mammotroph mammotropic mammotrophic mammotropin

Translations

milk-secreting organ

• Finnish: nisä (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گوان (animals only)

• Macedonian: дојка (mk) (dójka) f
• Russian: молочная железа (ru) (molóčnaja železá) f

mum — see mum

mother — see mother

Etymology 2

Alternative spelling of mama or momma.

Noun

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.

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Dutch

Noun

mamma f (plural mamma's or mammae)

1. (anatomy) mamma, breast

Synonyms

• borst

Usage notes

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

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Finnish

Noun

mamma

1. (dialectal) mama
2. (colloquial) An elder, plump woman.

Declension

Declension of mamma (type kala) singular plural nominative mamma mammat genitive mamman mammojen mammain1 partitive mammaa mammoja accusative mamma mamman mammat inessive mammassa mammoissa elative mammasta mammoista illative mammaan mammoihin adessive mammalla mammoilla ablative mammalta mammoilta allative mammalle mammoille essive mammana mammoina translative mammaksi mammoiksi instructive – mammoin abessive mammatta mammoitta comitative – mammoineen 1) Rare.

Synonyms

• (mama): äiti
• (elder, plump woman): tantta

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Gilbertese

Noun

mamma (plural mamma)

1. mammary gland.
2. mummy; mom; mum

Verb

mamma

1. to suck the breast.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmamːa/
• Rhymes: -amːa

Noun

mamma f (genitive singular mömmu, plural mömmur)

1. mom, mum (colloquial word for mother)

   Hvar er mamma mín?

   Where is my mommy?

Declension

declension of mamma

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mamma	mamman	mömmur	mömmurnar
accusative	mömmu	mömmuna	mömmur	mömmurnar
dative	mömmu	mömmunni	mömmum	mömmunum
genitive	mömmu	mömmunnar	mamma	mammanna

Synonyms

• (mother): móðir

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mamma.

Noun

mamma f (plural mamme)

1. mom (US), mommy (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)
2. mother

Derived terms

• mamma mia

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Latin

Noun

mamma (genitive mammae); f, first declension

1. (anatomy) a breast

   Puero isti date mammam.

   Give that boy of yours your breast.

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

   Mammam sugere.

   To suck on a breast.

4. (family) mama (a childish name for a mother in the language of children)

   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. (transferred meaning) a protuberance on tree bark

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mamma	mammae
genitive	mammae	mammārum
dative	mammae	mammīs
accusative	mammam	mammās
ablative	mammā	mammīs
vocative	mamma	mammae

Usage notes

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

  Mammas homo solus e maribus habet.

Derived terms

• mammam dare (with the dative; to give someone the breast, to suckle someone)
• mammalis

Descendants

Aromanian: mamã English: mamma French: maman Italian: mamma Neapolitan: mamma

Portuguese: mama Romanian: mamă Romansch: mamma, mama, mumma, moma Sardinian: mama, mamma, immamma Spanish: mama

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. mother

Synonyms

• mor

See also

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. mother

Synonyms

• mor

See also

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

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin mamma.

Noun

mamma f (plural mammas)

1. mother

Coordinate terms

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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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• IPA: [ˈmamː.a]

Noun

mamma c

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

Declension

Declension of mamma

	singular		plural
common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mamma	mamman	mammor	mammorna
genitive	mammas	mammans	mammors	mammornas

Antonyms

• pappa

Synonyms

• mor
• moder (dated)
• morsa (slang)