mam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mam"

English

Etymology

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

See also

See also

References
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,

Anagrams

Bahnar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maːm/

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

Further reading
  • mam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • mam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • mam in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

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

Noun

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

  1. mother

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
  • IPA(key): [mˠamˠ]

Noun

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

  1. mam, mum, mom

Declension
Declension of mam

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mam mamanna
Vocative a mham a mhamanna
Genitive maime mamanna
Dative mam mamanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mham na mamanna
Genitive na maime na mamanna
Dative leis an mam

don mham

 leis na mamanna

Synonyms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mam mham not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

K'iche'

Noun

mam

  1. grandfather

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [mam]

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 mamen)

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

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mam/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: mam

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

mam m (uncountable)

  1. Mam (language)

Noun

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

  1. Mam

Further reading

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mam/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -am

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 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 (“Mum, Mam, Mom”)
  • 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
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged mham△
△Irregular.
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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