ماموں

Urdu

Alternative forms
  • مامُوں جان (māmū̃ jān) (endearing)

Etymology

From مامُو (māmū), an endearing diminutive of ماما (māmā), from Sanskrit माम (māma), itself Proto-Dravidian *māma.

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɑː.mũː/
  • Rhymes: -ũː
  • Hyphenation: ما‧مُوں

Noun

مامُوں • (māmū̃) m (feminine مامی (māmī) or مُمانی (mumānī), Hindi spelling मामूँ)

  1. maternal uncle
  2. (women's speech) snake

Further reading
  • “ماموں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ماموں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ماموں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “مامون”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ماما”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
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