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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mam"

Translingual

Symbol

mam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mam.

See also

English

Etymology 1

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Early Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”). Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

Noun

mam (plural mams)

  1. (UK, Ireland, regional, informal, colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.
    • 2021, Glenda Young, The Miner's Lass:
      She'd sit by the fire, arms crossed, demanding that Ruby spike her tea with a cinder. But Ruby would never give in to her demands, no matter how much her mam begged. There was no alcohol in the house now; Arthur had made sure of that in an effort to get Mary sober.
Usage notes
  • Used in place of mum or ma in Scotland, Northumbrian dialects such as Geordie, as well as throughout Ireland and Liverpool, Cumbria, Kingston upon Hull, Shetland, and the South Wales valleys; the Welsh word for mother is mam.
See also

References

Etymology 2

From mammary.

Noun

mam (plural mams)

  1. (UK, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
    • 2002, David M. Burns, Quests, page 24:
      There was another teacher […] who came to class fairly often wearing a thin silk blouse and NO BRA. Her 'mams' bounced appropriately, which was of course utterly FASCINATING for every boy in the class.
    • 2022, Craig W. Stanfill, The Prophecy of the Heron:
      She focused her entire mind on that moment she had shared with Shan, the softness of her mams, the wetness of her lips.

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “mam”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *maːm. Cognate with Sedang méam.

Pronunciation

Noun

mam 

  1. metal, iron, steel

Derived terms

  • mam hrip

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

Noun

mam

  1. an address to a female superior
  2. an address to a female teacher

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from mámit (“to deceive”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmam]
  • Hyphenation: mam
  • Rhymes: -am

Noun

mam m inan

  1. (dated) fallacy, illusion, deception
    Synonyms: blud, klam

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
singular plural
nominative mam mamy
genitive mamu mamů
dative mamu mamům
accusative mam mamy
vocative mame mamy
locative mamu mamech
instrumental mamem mamy
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Declension of mam (hard masculine inanimate)

Further reading

  • “mam”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “mam”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “mam”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

  1. mother (mum)
    Synonyms: moeder, moe

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Old Irish muimme (“foster mother”), Proto-Celtic *mammā.

Pronunciation

Noun

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

  1. mam, mum, mom

Declension

More information bare forms, singular ...
Declension of mam (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mam mamanna
vocative a mham a mhamanna
genitive maime mamanna
dative mam mamanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mham na mamanna
genitive na maime na mamanna
dative leis an mam
don mham		 leis na mamanna
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Synonyms

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...
Mutated forms of mam
radical lenition eclipsis
mam mham not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

K'iche'

Noun

mam

  1. grandfather

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Verb

mam

  1. first-person singular present of měś

Derived terms

Luxembourgish

Contraction

mam

  1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

Mpade

Etymology

From Proto-Central Chadic *ɗawɨm.

Noun

mam f

  1. honey
  2. bee
  3. swarm

References

North Frisian

Etymology

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

Noun

mam f (plural (Föhr-Amrum) mamen or (Mooring) mamne)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) mother, mum
    mam an aatj ― mother and father (Föhr-Amrum)

Usage notes

  • In Mooring dialect it inflects in the same was as taatje (see there):
Hääst dü mamen sänj? ― Have you seen Mother?
Ik hääw anjörsne din mam sänj. ― I saw your mother yesterday.

See also

Polish

Pronunciation

Verb

mam

  1. first-person singular present of mieć

Verb

mam

  1. second-person singular imperative of mamić

Noun

mam f

  1. genitive plural of mama

Further reading

  • mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Q'anjob'al

Noun

mam

  1. father

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

mam (Cyrillic spelling мам)

  1. (Kajkavian) right now
  2. (Kajkavian) immediately

Spanish

Etymology

From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmam/ [ˈmãm]
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: mam

Adjective

mam m or f (masculine and feminine plural mames)

  1. (relational) Mam (of or relating to the Mam people)

Noun

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mam m (uncountable)

  1. Mam (language)

Noun

mam m or f by sense (plural mam or mames)

  1. Mam

Further reading

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English ma'am, is a contraction of madam.

Noun

mam (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜋ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of madam
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

mam (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜋ᜔) (childish)

  1. Alternative form of mamam

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh mam, from Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mammā, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *mātīr.

Pronunciation

Noun

mam f (plural mamau)

  1. mother
  2. ancestress
  3. dam
  4. queen bee

Usage notes

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

Coordinate terms

  • mab (“son”)
  • merch (“daughter”)
  • tad (“father”)

Derived terms

  • cariad mam (“maternal love”)
  • ein mam ni oll (“the mother of us all, the earth”)
  • ffigwr mam (“mother figure”)
  • llysfam (“stepmother”)
  • Mam (“Mum, Mam, Mom”)
  • mam cŵn bach (“over-protective mother”)
  • Mam Duw (“Mother of God”)
  • mam ddaear (“mother earth”)
  • mam ddibriod (“unmarried mother”)
  • mam faeth (“foster mother”)
  • mam fedydd (“godmother”)
  • mam feichiog (“expectant mother”)
  • mam fenthyg (“surrogate mother”)
  • mam frenhines (“queen mother”)
  • mam goeden (“seed tree”)
  • mam miloedd (“mind-your-own-business, Soleirolia soleirolii; ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis”)
  • mam sy'n bwydo o'r fron (“nursing mother”)
  • mam weddw (“widowed mother”)
  • mam wen (“stepmother”)
  • mam y drwg (“cause or root of evil”)
  • mam y glo (“mother of coal, impure coal in a coal seam”)
  • mam yng nghyfraith (“mother-in-law; wild pansy, Viola tricolor”)
  • mam yn ei harddegau (“teenage mother”)
  • mam yn Israel (“mother in Israel, elderly woman much loved by her family or community”)
  • mam-dâp (“father tape”)
  • mam-gu (“grandmother”)
  • mameglwys (“mother-church”)
  • mami (“mummy, mammy, mommy”)
  • mamiaith (“mother tongue”)
  • mamol (“motherly, maternal”)
  • mamwlad (“mother country, fatherland”)
  • Môn Mam Cymru (“Anglesey, the Mother of Wales”)
  • parablu mam (“motherese”)
  • yr Hen Fam (“Church of England”)

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...
Mutated forms of mam
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged mham△
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△Irregular.

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wemba-Wemba

Noun

mam

  1. father

Yucatec Maya

Noun

mam

  1. ancestor

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