amma

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See also: Amma, ammā, and ämmä

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Related to Tamil அம்மா (ammā, mother), Hindi अम्मा (ammā), Malayalam അമ്മ (amma), Kannada ಅಮ್ಮ (amma, mother) Telugu అమ్మ (amma, mother), Sinhalese අම්මා (ammā, mother), or Classical Syriac ܐܡܐ (emma, mother). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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amma (plural ammas)

  1. (India) mother
Usage notes
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  • Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin amma, from Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, mother, abbess).

Noun

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amma (plural ammas)

  1. (Christianity, historical) An abbess or spiritual mother, especially one of the Desert Mothers.
    Coordinate term: abba

Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic амма
Abjad اما

Etymology

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Ultimately from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɑmːɑ]
  • (Karabakh) IPA(key): [ˈɑmbɑ] (as if spelled amba)
  • Audio:(file)

Conjunction

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amma

  1. but
    Synonyms: ancaq, fəqət

Bole

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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àmma

  1. water

References

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  • Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
    [] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: [] BT *hama [Stl.] = *am- [Schuh], Bole ˀame [Schuh] = aməi [Schuh] = àmmá [Schuh] []

Cornish

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Alternative forms

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  • (Revived Late Cornish) abma

Etymology

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From amm (kiss).

Verb

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amma

  1. to kiss

Finnish

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Etymology

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From Swedish amma.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmːɑ/, [ˈɑ̝mːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): am‧ma

Noun

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amma

  1. wet nurse
  2. nanny

Declension

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Inflection of amma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative amma ammat
genitive amman ammojen
partitive ammaa ammoja
illative ammaan ammoihin
singular plural
nominative amma ammat
accusative nom. amma ammat
gen. amman
genitive amman ammojen
ammain rare
partitive ammaa ammoja
inessive ammassa ammoissa
elative ammasta ammoista
illative ammaan ammoihin
adessive ammalla ammoilla
ablative ammalta ammoilta
allative ammalle ammoille
essive ammana ammoina
translative ammaksi ammoiksi
abessive ammatta ammoitta
instructive ammoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of amma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ammani ammani
accusative nom. ammani ammani
gen. ammani
genitive ammani ammojeni
ammaini rare
partitive ammaani ammojani
inessive ammassani ammoissani
elative ammastani ammoistani
illative ammaani ammoihini
adessive ammallani ammoillani
ablative ammaltani ammoiltani
allative ammalleni ammoilleni
essive ammanani ammoinani
translative ammakseni ammoikseni
abessive ammattani ammoittani
instructive
comitative ammoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative ammasi ammasi
accusative nom. ammasi ammasi
gen. ammasi
genitive ammasi ammojesi
ammaisi rare
partitive ammaasi ammojasi
inessive ammassasi ammoissasi
elative ammastasi ammoistasi
illative ammaasi ammoihisi
adessive ammallasi ammoillasi
ablative ammaltasi ammoiltasi
allative ammallesi ammoillesi
essive ammanasi ammoinasi
translative ammaksesi ammoiksesi
abessive ammattasi ammoittasi
instructive
comitative ammoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative ammamme ammamme
accusative nom. ammamme ammamme
gen. ammamme
genitive ammamme ammojemme
ammaimme rare
partitive ammaamme ammojamme
inessive ammassamme ammoissamme
elative ammastamme ammoistamme
illative ammaamme ammoihimme
adessive ammallamme ammoillamme
ablative ammaltamme ammoiltamme
allative ammallemme ammoillemme
essive ammanamme ammoinamme
translative ammaksemme ammoiksemme
abessive ammattamme ammoittamme
instructive
comitative ammoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative ammanne ammanne
accusative nom. ammanne ammanne
gen. ammanne
genitive ammanne ammojenne
ammainne rare
partitive ammaanne ammojanne
inessive ammassanne ammoissanne
elative ammastanne ammoistanne
illative ammaanne ammoihinne
adessive ammallanne ammoillanne
ablative ammaltanne ammoiltanne
allative ammallenne ammoillenne
essive ammananne ammoinanne
translative ammaksenne ammoiksenne
abessive ammattanne ammoittanne
instructive
comitative ammoinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative ammansa ammansa
accusative nom. ammansa ammansa
gen. ammansa
genitive ammansa ammojensa
ammainsa rare
partitive ammaansa ammojaan
ammojansa
inessive ammassaan
ammassansa
ammoissaan
ammoissansa
elative ammastaan
ammastansa
ammoistaan
ammoistansa
illative ammaansa ammoihinsa
adessive ammallaan
ammallansa
ammoillaan
ammoillansa
ablative ammaltaan
ammaltansa
ammoiltaan
ammoiltansa
allative ammalleen
ammallensa
ammoilleen
ammoillensa
essive ammanaan
ammanansa
ammoinaan
ammoinansa
translative ammakseen
ammaksensa
ammoikseen
ammoiksensa
abessive ammattaan
ammattansa
ammoittaan
ammoittansa
instructive
comitative ammoineen
ammoinensa

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Hausa

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Etymology

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From Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʔàm.máː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔàm.máː]

Conjunction

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àmmā

  1. but

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse amma.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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amma f (genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

  1. grandmother, grandma, granny

Declension

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    Declension of amma
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative amma amman ömmur ömmurnar
accusative ömmu ömmuna ömmur ömmurnar
dative ömmu ömmunni ömmum ömmunum
genitive ömmu ömmunnar amma ammanna

Derived terms

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Kirfi

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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amma

  1. water

References

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  • Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
  • Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Latin

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Etymology 1

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Pokorny[1] suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (mother). Compare Latin amita (paternal aunt), Latin anus (crone) and Old High German amma (wet nurse).

It may also represent an infantile modification of mamma.

Noun

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amma f (genitive ammae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. a nocturnal bird, perhaps the screech owl
    • c. 600, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, XII.vii.42:
      Haec avis [viz. strix] vulgo amma dicitur, ab amando parvulos; unde et lac praebere fertur nascentibus.
      This bird is commonly called amma [mum (?)], because it loves its young, and it is also said to offer milk to its hatchlings.
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  • Based on etymological evidence and the reference to milk in the Isidore quote, it is suspected that this word actually meant “mother”, along similar lines to atta (father).
Declension
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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative amma ammae
Genitive ammae ammārum
Dative ammae ammīs
Accusative ammam ammās
Ablative ammā ammīs
Vocative amma ammae
Descendants
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  • Catalan: ama
  • Galician: ama
  • Portuguese: ama
  • Spanish: ama

Etymology 2

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From Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, mother, abbess) via Koine Greek ἀμμᾶς (ammâs), ἀμμὰ (ammà), perhaps reinforced by Etymology 1.

Noun

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amma f (genitive ammae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. amma; a spiritual mother or abbess in early monasticism, a Desert Mother
    Coordinate term: abba
    Vita Ammae TalidaeThe Life of Amma Talida
Declension
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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative amma ammae
Genitive ammae ammārum
Dative ammae ammīs
Accusative ammam ammās
Ablative ammā ammīs
Vocative amma ammae

References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “am(m)a”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 36-37

Further reading

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  • amma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • amma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Souter, Alexander (1949) “amma”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 13

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Verb

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amma

  1. to eat

References

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María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington (1930s) Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Langauges)‎[2], Unpublished

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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amma m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of amme

Verb

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amma

  1. inflection of amme:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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amma (present tense ammar, past tense amma, past participle amma, present participle ammande, imperative am)

  1. A-infinitive form of amme

Noun

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amma f

  1. definite singular of amme
  2. (pre-2012) alternative form of amme

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (mother).

Noun

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amma f

  1. wet nurse

Descendants

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (mother), from Proto-Indo-European *amma (mother).

Noun

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amma f (genitive ǫmmu, plural ǫmmur)

  1. grandmother

Declension

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Descendants

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See also

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  • afi (grandfather)
  • edda (great-grandmother)
  • ái (great-grandfather)

References

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  • amma”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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amma

  1. vocative singular of ammā (mummy)
  2. familiar term of address to a woman

References

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Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “amma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Low German amme; compare with German Amme (wet nurse). Verb derived from noun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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amma c

  1. a wet nurse

Declension

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Declension of amma 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative amma amman ammor ammorna
Genitive ammas ammans ammors ammornas

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Verb

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amma (present ammar, preterite ammade, supine ammat, imperative amma)

  1. to breastfeed

Conjugation

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Tagabawa

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Noun

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ámmà

  1. father

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish اما (amma) from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

Adverb

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amma

  1. yet

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