amma

See also: Amma, ammā, and ämmä

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æmə

Etymology 1

Related to Classical Syriac ܐܡܐ‎ (emma), Hindi अम्मा (ammā), Malayalam അമ്മ (amma), Kannada ಅಮ್ಮ (amma, “mother”) Telugu అమ్మ (amma, “mother”), Sinhalese අම්මා (ammā, “mother”), or Tamil அம்மா (ammā, “mother”).

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

  1. mother

Usage notes

  • Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

See also

Etymology 2

Late Latin amma, probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare Spanish ama, German Amme, nurse, Basque ama mother, Hebrew, Arabic.

Noun

amma (plural ammas)

  1. An abbess or spiritual mother.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic амма
Roman amma
Perso-Arabic

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic أَمَّا‎ (ʾammā).

Conjunction

amma

  1. but

Bole

Noun

àmma

  1. water

References

  • Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
  • Takács, Gábor (1999-2008) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] 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

Alternative forms

  • (Revived Late Cornish) abma

Etymology

From amm (“kiss”).

Verb

amma

  1. to kiss

Finnish

Noun

amma

  1. wet nurse
  2. nanny

Declension

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
ammainrare
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
instructive — ammoin
abessive ammatta ammoitta
comitative — ammoineen

See also

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse amma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈamːa/
  • Rhymes: -amːa

Noun

amma f (genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

  1. grandmother, grandma, granny

Declension

Derived terms

Kirfi

Noun

amma

  1. water

References

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

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Noun

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension

  1. A nocturnal bird

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative amma ammae
genitive ammae ammārum
dative ammae ammīs
accusative ammam ammās
ablative ammā ammīs
vocative amma ammae

References

  • amma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “am(m)a”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 36-37

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

amma m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of amme

Verb

amma

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

amma f

  1. definite singular of amme

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (“mother”).

Noun

amma f

  1. wet nurse

Descendants

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

amma f

  1. grandmother

Declension

Descendants

References

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

Turkish

Adverb

amma

  1. yet

See also

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