amma

Etymology 1
Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, or 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  mother

Usage notes

 * Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

Etymology 2
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  An abbess or spiritual mother, especially one of the.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to kiss

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wet nurse
 * 2) nanny

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) grandmother, grandma, granny

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology 1
Pokorny suggests a derivation from,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

It may also represent an infantile modification of.

Noun

 * 1) a nocturnal bird, perhaps the screech owl

Usage notes

 * 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.

Etymology 2
From via, , perhaps reinforced by Etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1) ; a spiritual mother or abbess in early monasticism, a Desert Mother
 * °N, °W

Verb

 * 1) to eat

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wet nurse

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) grandmother

Noun

 * 1) familiar term of address to a woman
 * 1) familiar term of address to a woman

Etymology
From ; compare with 🇨🇬. Verb derived from noun.

Noun

 * 1) a wet nurse

Verb

 * 1) to breastfeed

Noun

 * 1) father

Etymology
From from.

Adverb

 * 1) yet