mama

mama 是对母亲的亲昵称呼或儿童用语，主要用于家庭和熟悉语境。

💡 记忆钩子

把它想成孩子最早对母亲发出的亲昵称呼：从“妈妈”这个家庭中的核心人物，延伸出带有亲近感的称呼方式。

📝 学习建议

先把 mama 记作“妈妈、母亲”，不要默认它适用于所有正式场合；正式表达通常使用更中性的词。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 妈妈；母亲

📖 指母亲，即生育或抚养孩子的女性；也常是孩子对母亲的亲昵称呼。它的核心感觉不是正式的“母亲”，而是家庭中亲近的“妈妈”。

💡 常见模式是直接说 “Mama!” 来叫母亲，或说 “my mama” 表示“我妈妈”。这个词语气亲昵、口语化，并常带儿童语感；在正式写作或严肃说明中，通常不用它。中文学习者不要把它只理解成幼儿专用词，因为成年人在熟悉或地域性的语境中也可能使用。

Canada US childish familiar usually

Mama, can you help me find my shoes?

妈妈，你能帮我找找鞋吗？

My mama taught me how to make this soup.

我妈妈教我做这道汤。

mamas plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped

同义词集: mama

informal terms for a mother

同义词集: ma mama mamma mom momma mommy mammy mum mummy

上位: female parent, mother

🌳 词源

源自婴儿语，可能与一些表示“母亲”或“姑母”的古英语及日耳曼语词有关。

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is probably a reduplication of ma, thought to be a sound made by babies when breastfeeding. The word is possibly influenced by Middle French maman (“mother”) (modern French maman), mamme (both probably from Latin mamma (“breast; nurse; (childish) mother, mama; grandmother”), probably cognate with Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mắmmē, “breast; (childish) mother, mama; (Koine) grandmother”), both possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to nurse; mama, mother”)), but this is also uncertain as all the words could have developed independently as onomatopoeias. Etymology 1, noun sense 3 (“(Caribbean) used as a term of address for a woman”) is possibly partly from a West African language; compare Akan mmá, mmaa (“woman”). The interjection and verb are derived from the noun.

🔄 变式

mamas plural

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