amá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ama"

Franco-Provençal

Verb

amá (Dauphinois)

1. alternative form of amar (“to love”)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “amare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 387

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish ama.

Conjunction

amá

1. but

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-(h)aˑn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔɑ̀mɑ́/

• Audio:

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Noun

amá

1. mother
2. maternal aunt

Inflection

Possessives of amá

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shimá	nihimá	danihimá
2nd person	nimá	nihimá	danihimá
3rd person	bimá
4th person (3o)	yimá
4th person (3a)	hamá
Indefinite (3i)	amá

See also

• amá yázhí (“mother's sister”)
• abízhí (“paternal aunt or uncle”)
• amásání (“maternal grandmother”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈma/ [aˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧má

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

amá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of amar

Etymology 2

Apheretic form of mamá (“mom”)

Noun

amá f (plural amás)

1. (colloquial, Basque Country, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Eastern Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela) apheretic form of mamá (“mom”)

Further reading

• “amá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “amá”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010