ama

Clipping of English Amanayé.

ama

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Amanayé terms

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mə/

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• (Singapore English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mɑ/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɑːmə

From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.

ama (plural amas)

1. Alternative spelling of amah.
   • 1910, Mary F. Roulet, The Spaniard at Home, page 14:

     Not only does the baby have a jewel then, or some handsome gift, but his ama (nurse) is remembered with a bright gold doubloon (sixteen dollars).

   • 2007, Ondina E. González, Bianca Premo, Raising an Empire, page 143:

     Again as with Juan, shortly after the religious rite the children would be transferred to the care of wet nurses, or amas, who would take them into their individual homes.

   • 2013, Maria Aurora Couto, Filomena's Journey:

     It was rumoured that she had been his ama, the wet nurse who then became part of the family, taking charge so effectively that she ruled the household.

From Japanese あま.

ama (plural amas)

1. A traditional Japanese pearl diver, usually female, who mainly dives for seafood, typically without any tool for breathing.

From Polynesian.

ama (plural amas)

1. (nautical) The float on the outrigger of a proa or trimaran.

From Sanskrit अम (ama, “disease”).

ama (countable and uncountable, plural amas)

1. (Ayurveda) A toxic byproduct of improper or incomplete digestion.

Unknown.

ama (plural amas)

1. Fabric made from the hair of a camel or goat.

From Hokkien 阿媽 / 阿妈 (a-má, “paternal grandmother”). See also Hokkien 俺媽 / 俺妈 (án-má), Portuguese Templo de A-Má.

• amah, ahma, amma

• IPA^(key): /ʔɐˈma/

ama (plural amas)

1. (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) paternal grandmother; paternal grandma
   • 2012, Andrew Drilon, “Two Women Worth Watching”, in Charles Tan, editor, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology‎^[3], Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, Inc., page 8:

     "Perhaps," her grandmother had said. She was nearing death at that point, Mia's ama. Her body was wracked with arthritis, rheumatism, Parkinson's, osteoporosis and more. The maids said she was crazy with pain, and perhaps too far gone to even think properly.

2. (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) term of address for one's paternal grandmother
   • 2017, Ari C. Dy, “Introduction”, in Chinese Buddhism in Catholic Philippines: Syncretism as Identity‎^[4], Anvil Publishing, Inc.:

     There would always be some food offerrings there, and every morning, Amma would burn some incense. More elaborate offerings were made on the anniversaries of his birth and death, and the Chinese festivals for the dead such as Qingming in April and the Hungry Ghosts on the seventh lunar month.

• (paternal male): angkong
• (maternal female): guama
• (maternal male): guakong

Initialism.

ama

1. Alternative form of AMA (“against medical advice”).

• AAM, aam, maa

• IPA^(key): /ama/

ama

1. address term for multiple males or a group listen, men! hey guys!

SIL International (2020), “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[5]

• IPA^(key): /aˈma/ [ʔʌˈmʌ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

amá

1. this, that, these, those (masculine; near the spoken to)

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ama”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[6], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈma/ [ʔaˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ma

amá

1. father

• amo

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈama]

ama

1. but, however

   Synonyms: megjithatë, mirëpo, por

ama

1. village

• Marc Augé, Le rivage alladian: organisation et évolution des villages alladian

ama

1. grandmother

• 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[7] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2024

From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dmáHnaH.

amá (Sanu)^[1]

1. house
2. room

Compare Mangbetu àmà.

ama

1. we

• Asoa Swadesh List

Nursery-word, first attested in the 15th century.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /ama/ [a.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ama, -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama anim

1. mother
2. origin

• “ama”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “ama”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• amè (Urban Jakarta)

Clipping of sama, from Classical Malay sama (“same”).

• IPA^(key): /ama/

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• (Urban Jakarta) IPA^(key): /amɛ/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama

1. and

   Synonyms: èn, dan

ama

1. with (against; alongside; in addition to)

   Synonym: dengen

2. with; by means of (used to indicate the instrument of an action)

   Synonym: paké

3. to; at (used to indicate the target or recipient of an action)

   Synonym: ke

4. by (used to indicate the agent of an action in a passive clause)

For many speakers, ama is contrastive with sama (“same, together”), though in some speakers the latter may occasionally be used in place of ama (but never vice-versa).

• → Indonesian: ama
  • → Indonesian: sama (semantic loan)

• Chaer, A. (2009) [1976], “amè”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 10

ama

1. father

From Proto-Austronesian *amax.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔama/ [ˈʔa.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama (Buhid spelling ᝀᝋ)

1. man; male; boy

   Coordinate term: ina

2. father

   Synonyms: mama, amang

   Coordinate term: ina

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.ma]

From Late Latin amma

ama f (plural ames)

1. wet nurse

   Synonym: dida

2. mistress

   Synonym: mestressa

• amo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ama

1. inflection of amar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ama”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈma/ [ʔɐˈma]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

amá (Badlit spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. (obsolete) a male parent; a father

   Synonyms: amahan, papa, tatay

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmaʔ/ [ʔaˈmaʔ]

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• Hyphenation: a‧ma

amâ (feminine ina, Basahan spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. father

   Synonyms: papa, tatay, papay

From Proto-Mixtec *awą.

ama

1. (interrogative) when

ama

1. when

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974), Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[8] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, pages 3, 86

ama

1. like, as (a similar thing)

• IPA^(key): /a˥.maʔ˩/, [a˥.maʔ˩]

ama

1. to slap

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[9], Berkeley: University of California, page 78
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 8
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 136

Ultimately from Sanskrit अस्मे (asmé) (locative of वयम् (vayam, “we”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *asmáy, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé. Cognate with Hindi हम (ham), Urdu ہَم (ham), Punjabi ਅਸੀਂ (asī̃), Marathi आम्ही (āmhī), Konkani आमि (āmi), Assamese আমি (ami).

ama (plural eme)

1. I; first-person singular pronoun

• Matras, Yaron (2012), A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎^[10], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

ama

1. father

ama

1. now

ami +‎ -a

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama (accusative singular aman, plural amaj, accusative plural amajn)

1. loving, with love, relating to or characterized by love

   ama rememoro / sento.

   loving memory / feeling of love.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Heinrich August Luyken, Stranga Heredaĵo, Ĉapitro 3,

     Per amaj, kunsentaj vortoj Leonardo sukcesis plie firmigi la konfidon de la junulo [...]

     Through loving, sympathetic words Leonardo managed to strengthen the youth’s trust [in him] further.

• “ama”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/ [ˈa.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese ama (“mistress”), from Hispanic Late Latin amma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *amma- (“mother”).^[1]

ama f (plural amas)

1. mistress
2. wet nurse
3. housekeeper
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes

     Item, Xoán Cortido, citizen of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a sucking piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks

ama

1. inflection of amar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “ama”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “ama”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Proto-Austronesian *ama—h.

ama

1. father

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ama

1. mother

• ma·gipa

• Burling, R. (2003), The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[11], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 375

Cognate with Saxwe Gbe ama, Aja (West Africa) ama, Fon ama.

• IPA^(key): /ā.mà/

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amà (plural amà lẹ)

1. leaf

• ama'

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amá-q, from Proto-Austronesian *amax.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔamaʔ/ [ˈʔɐ.mɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -amaʔ
• Syllabification: a‧ma

amà (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜫ)

1. father

• The vocative form amang is also used when calling one's father instead of referring to the father.

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 27
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*amax”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Polynesian *hama. Cognates include Tongan hama and Māori ama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/, [ˈɐ.mə]

ama

1. outrigger float

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “ama”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN

ama

1. man

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmɒ]
• Rhymes: -mɒ
• Hyphenation: ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama

1. (archaic, literary) alternative form of amaz before consonants: that (as in yon or yonder)

   Coordinate term: eme

See at eme.

• amaz

• ama in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ama, redirecting to amaz in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress)

From Old Norse ama.

• Rhymes: -aːma

ama (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative amaði, supine amað)

1. to trouble

ama

1. father

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈama/ [ˈa.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama (plural ama-ama)

1. apheretic form of hama

ama

1. apheretic form of sama

Borrowed from Gayo [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amá-q, from Proto-Austronesian *amax.

ama (plural ama-ama)

1. father [since 2017]

Borrowed from Pamona [Term?].

ama (plural ama-ama)

1. sparks flying into the air [since 2024]

• “ama”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• amang

áma

1. father

   Synonym: tata

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/

ama

1. present of amar
2. imperative of amar

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈɑmˠə]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈamˠə]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ama m (genitive singular ama, nominative plural amaí)

1. yoke
2. (in the plural) hames

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ama m

1. genitive singular of am

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ama”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: à‧ma

ama

1. inflection of amare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

ama

1. Rōmaji transcription of あま

From Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

ama (classifier čô)

1. father

ama

1. romanization of ꦲꦩ

• IPA^(key): [aˈma]

ama

1. mother

• Meinke Salzer (1976), “Fonologia Provisória da Língua Kamayurá”, in Série Linguística, volume 5, pages 131–170

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔama/ [ˈʔaː.mʌ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama

1. father

ama

1. father

From Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

ama

1. father

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “ama”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 5
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*amax”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ),^[1] from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

ama (Hebrew spelling אמה)

1. but; yet

   Synonyms: ma, pero

   • 19th Century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, chapter 24, in Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[12], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 236:

     En fin, estos se tornaron en vazio, i pedrieron el koraje, i non fueron mas en dingun modo de fyesta a demandar los bilyetos, ama empesaron a azerme konkorrensya en otros travajos.

     In the end they returned empty-handed and disappointed, and they were no longer in any mood to demand invitations for feasting, yet they started to compete with me in other areas of work.

• amá

Inherited from Old Spanish ama (“wetnurse”), from Late Latin amma, q.v.

ama f (Hebrew spelling אמה)

1. housewife (mistress of the house)
   • 1997, Aki Yerushalayim: revista de las emisiones de Israel en djudeo-espaniol‎^[13], numbers 56-58, page 45:

     […] 'Hagar es buena i resive influensa de su ama, amiga i senyora Sara, ke es buena mujer i madre.

     Hagar is good and is influenced by her mistress, friend and lady Sarah, who is a good woman and mother.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ama (Hebrew spelling אמה)

1. third-person singular present indicative of amar

From hama, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μη (ắmē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ma]

ama f (genitive amae); first declension

1. alternative form of hama (“firebucket”)

First-declension noun.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.maː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ma]

amā

1. ablative singular of ama
2. ablative/vocative singular of amās

From amō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.maː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ma]

amā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of amō

• “ăma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ăma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 108/3.
• "2. AMA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• "3. AMA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ama” on page 112/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “ama”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 39/1

ama

1. Latin spelling of ამა (ama)

amá

1. father

• IPA^(key): [ʔa³³ma³³]

ama

1. (Yao'an) mother, mom

ama

1. father

ama

1. father

Borrowed from Italian amare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ma/
• Rhymes: -aːma

ama (imperfect jama, past participle amat, verbal noun amar)

1. to love, like

From Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

• IPA^(key): [aˈmaʔ]

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ama

1. father

   Wain yang kanmo ama?

   Where is your father?

From Proto-Polynesian *hama. Cognates include Tongan hama and Hawaiian ama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/ [ˈɐmɐ]

ama

1. outrigger (of a canoe)
2. bargeboard support

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “ama”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[14], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

ama

1. but

   Dza uwana asal matəf gəl aŋha, adàziŋ ala, ama dza uwana az gəl aŋha ala kà gi, adàɓəl gəl aŋha. (Mata 16:25)^[1]

   For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it. (Matthew 16:25)

ama (mutated form nama)

1. father

   amagu ― my father

   amada ― our (and also your) father^[1]

ama

1. (Weyo) bowstring

• transnewguinea.org, citing Voorhoeve, C. L. 1980. The Asmat Languages of Irian Jaya. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

ámá

1. human beings, people
2. members of the Nyimang people who speak the Ama dialect

• Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, issues 61-64, page 103: From the accompanying notes, I have these self-names: Nyimang ama-du wada 'ama (people)-of language' and [...]
• Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt, The Meroitic Language and Writing System (2012), page 80 (in notes)

Inherited from Late Latin amma, q.v.

ama f (plural amas)

1. wetnurse
2. housewife (mistress of the house)

• Galician: ama
• Portuguese: ama

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Proto-Germanic *ammōną (“to irritate, bother”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“to insist, urge”).

• Hyphenation: am‧a

ama

1. to bother
2. to wound

ama f (genitive ǫmu, plural ǫmur)

1. a large amount, a ton

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ama”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Inherited from Late Latin amma, q.v.

ama f (plural amas)

1. wetnurse

• Ladino: ama, אמה
• Spanish: ama

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “ama”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 32

ama

1. paper

Cognate with Old Tupi amana.

• IPA^(key): /amã/, [ãˈmã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama

1. rain

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “ama”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 13, columns 1–2

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese ama, from Late Latin amma, q.v.

ama f (plural amas)

1. female nurse

   Synonym: enfermeira

2. female housekeeper

   Synonym: governanta

3. governess

   Synonym: governanta

• ama de leite
• ama-seca

• → Gujarati: અમ્મા (ammā)
• → Marathi: अमा (amā)
• → Tamil: ஆமா (āmā)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ama

1. inflection of amar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ama”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ama”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

ama

1. (imperative) do not, used with -chu

   Ama mikhuychu!

   Don't eat!

• ama ñiy

• mana

ama

1. old ruin

From Proto-Chamic *ʔama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *t-ama, from Proto-Austronesian *t-ama.

• IPA^(key): /amaa/, [ʔəmaa]

ama

1. a father

From Proto-Polynesian *hama. Cognates include Tongan hama and Hawaiian ama.

ama

1. outrigger

From Proto-Rukai *ama, from Proto-Austronesian *amax.

ama

1. father
2. father's brother

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *amax.

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈma/, [a.ˈma]

ama

1. father

Borrowed from Tibetan ཨ་མ (a ma).

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /ɑmɑ/
• (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ɑːmɑ/

ama

1. mother

   Synonym: ica

   Govda aba üni biki, öyde ama üni biki.

   Father's voice is loud at door, mother's voice is loud at home.

• ama-bala (“mother and child”)

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ama”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 287
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1992), “ama”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都 [Chéngdū]: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 8
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “aːma”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[15], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 41
• 阿伊草·张进锋 [Salar: Ayso Cañ Cinfen] (2008), 乌璐别格 [Salar: Ulubeğ], 鄭初陽 [Salar: Çuyañ Yebey oğlı Ceñ], editors, 撒拉尔谚语 [Salar: Salar İbret Sözler, Salar Proverbs]‎^[16], China Salar Youth League, page 93

ama m

1. genitive singular of àm

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), in turn from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

• IPA^(key): /âma/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ȁma (Cyrillic spelling а̏ма)

1. (regional) but [from 18th c.]

   Synonym: ali

ama (Cyrillic spelling ама)

1. (regional) Used to express impatience.; ugh, blah

• “ama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “ama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

ama

1. inflection of amari:
   1. third-person singular present active indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji ama and Hadiyya ama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama f (plural amuwa f)

1. mother

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007), A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 82
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “ama”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Borrowed from German Amme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama f

1. wet nurse (woman hired to suckle another woman's child)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “ą̃mă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[17] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 9

ama

1. or

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/ [ˈa.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

Inherited from Old Spanish ama (“wetnurse”), from Late Latin amma, q.v.

ama f (plural amas, masculine amo, masculine plural amos)

1. lady of the house
2. proprietress
3. landlady
4. housekeeper, head maid
5. nursemaid, nanny
6. wetnurse
7. mistress

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like ama, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el ama. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al ama, del ama.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un ama or una ama. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor ama, una buena ama.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el ama única, un(a) ama buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ama

1. inflection of amar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “amo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

ama

1. romanization of 𒂼 (ama)

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.mɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

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Borrowed from Arabic أَم (ʔam).

ama

1. or

   Synonym: au

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَا (ʔamā).

ama

1. Used to express surprise or shock: oh! is that so?

   Synonym: ala

• ama kweli

-ama (infinitive kuama)

1. (rare) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to add to
2. (rare) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to lie on, to rest on

Conjugation of -ama
Positive present -naama Subjunctive -ame Negative -ami Imperative singular ama
Infinitives
Positive kuama Negative kutoama
Imperatives
Singular ama Plural ameni
Tensed forms
Habitual huama Positive past positive subject concord + -liama Negative past negative subject concord + -kuama
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naama) Singular Plural 1st person ninaama/naama tunaama 2nd person unaama mnaama 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anaama wanaama other classes positive subject concord + -naama
Negative present (negative subject concord + -ami) Singular Plural 1st person siami hatuami 2nd person huami hamwami 3rd person m-wa(I/II) haami hawaami other classes negative subject concord + -ami
Positive future positive subject concord + -taama Negative future negative subject concord + -taama
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -ame) Singular Plural 1st person niame tuame 2nd person uame mwame 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aame waame other classes positive subject concord + -ame
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siame Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeama Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeama Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliama Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliama
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aama) Singular Plural 1st person naama twaama 2nd person waama mwaama 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aama waama m-mi(III/IV) waama yaama ji-ma(V/VI) laama yaama ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaama vyaama n(IX/X) yaama zaama u(XI) waama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwaama pa(XVI) paama mu(XVIII) mwaama
Perfect positive subject concord + -meama "Already" positive subject concord + -meshaama "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaama "If/When" positive subject concord + -kiama "If not" positive subject concord + -sipoama Consecutive kaama / positive subject concord + -kaama Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaame
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -niama -tuama 2nd person -kuama -waama/-kuameni/-waameni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mwama -waama m-mi(III/IV) -uama -iama ji-ma(V/VI) -liama -yaama ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kiama -viama n(IX/X) -iama -ziama u(XI) -uama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kuama pa(XVI) -paama mu(XVIII) -muama Reflexive -jiama
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -ama- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -amaye -amao m-mi(III/IV) -amao -amayo ji-ma(V/VI) -amalo -amayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -amacho -amavyo n(IX/X) -amayo -amazo u(XI) -amao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -amako pa(XVI) -amapo mu(XVIII) -amamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -ama) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yeama -oama m-mi(III/IV) -oama -yoama ji-ma(V/VI) -loama -yoama ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choama -vyoama n(IX/X) -yoama -zoama u(XI) -oama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -koama pa(XVI) -poama mu(XVIII) -moama
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -amwa

From Proto-Austronesian *amax. Compare Central Bikol ama, Cebuano ama, Fijian tama, Higaonon amay, Hiligaynon amay, Ibanag yama, Maranao ama', Malay rama, Saaroa ama'a, Taivoan ama', and Yami ama.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaˈma/ [ʔɐˈma] (“father; senior”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -a
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmaʔ/ [ʔɐˈmaʔ] (“grandfather”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: a‧ma

amá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. (formal, literary) father

   Synonyms: tatay, papa, itay, (idiomatic) haligi ng tahanan, (slang) erpat, (gay slang) pudra, (obsolete) bapa

2. (figurative) founder; organizer

   Synonym: tagapagtatag

3. senior; older
4. sire

amâ (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. (dialectal, Quezon) grandfather

   Synonyms: lolo, ingkong, (Quezon) amama

Borrowed from Spanish ama, from Old Spanish ama, from Late Latin amma.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔama/ [ˈʔaː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. mistress; housewife

   Synonyms: maybahay, madre de pamilya, ama de-kasa

2. governess; caretaker of children

   Synonyms: yaya, katiwala, tagapag-alaga, katulong, sisiwa

From Chinese [Term?].

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔama/ [ˈʔaː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: a‧ma

ama (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. rarely; seldom

   Synonyms: bihira, madalang, manaka-naka

Borrowed from Hokkien 阿媽 / 阿妈 (a-má, “paternal grandmother”). See also Hokkien 俺媽 / 俺妈 (án-má), Portuguese Templo de A-Má.

• ahma, amma, amah

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈma/ [ʔɐˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ma

amá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ) (Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

1. paternal grandmother; paternal grandma

   Synonym: lola

   Coordinate term: angkong

   • 2006, Christine S. Bellen, “Trese”, in Carla M. Pacis, Eugene Y. Evasco, editors, Bagets: an anthology of Filipino young adult fiction‎^[18], UP Press, page 11:

     Mestisang Tsina naman si Nanay. Negosyante sina Ama at Angkong ko. Purong Tsino si Angkong. Lumikas mula sa Macao ang pamilya nila at dito sa Pilipinas nagtayo ng isang maliit na tindahan hanggang sa lumago ito at naging isang grocery.

     Mom is a Chinese mestiza. My grandmother and grandfather are businesspeople. Grandpa is a pure Chinese. Their family evacuated from Macau and it was here in the Philippines where they started a small store until it flourished and became a grocery.

2. term of address for one's paternal grandmother
   • 2006, Christine S. Bellen, “Trese”, in Carla M. Pacis, Eugene Y. Evasco, editors, Bagets: an anthology of Filipino young adult fiction‎^[19], UP Press, page 11:

     Sa Pilipinas na napangasawa ni Angkong si Ama. Pilipina ang nanay ni Ama pero sila ang mas mahigpit sa mga pamahiing Tsino.

     It was in the Philippines already where Grandpa married Grandma. Grandma's mother is a Filipina but they are the ones who are stricter in Chinese superstitions.

• “ama”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “ama”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*amax”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971), A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province, Quezon City: Diliman Review, page 30
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 28

• aam

ama

1. liver

• Lorna MacDonald (2013), A Dictionary of Tauya, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 103

ama

1. father
2. paternal uncle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ama

1. mother
2. maternal aunt; one's mother's sister
3. mother-in-law; one's spouse's mother

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā). Doublet of amma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/, [ˈɑ.mɑ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama

1. but; however

   Synonyms: ancak, amma, lakin, velakin

• → Ladino: ama

From am (“cunt, pussy”) +‎ -a (dative suffix).

• IPA^(key): /aˈma/, [ɑˈmɑ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama

1. dative singular of am

• amma
• âmâ

• “ama”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ama”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “ama”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /ˈʔämä/

ama

1. flute

• “ˀama” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

ama

1. water

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

ama

1. horse

ama

1. dog

From Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

ama

1. father

From a (third-person singular verbal concord) +‎ mà (“himself, herself”).

• IPA^(key): [ʔʌ̄.mʌ̀]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

amà

1. he, she

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 131
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65