မမ

Burmese

Etymology

မ (ma.) +‎ မ (ma.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ma̰ma̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ma.ma. • ALA-LC: mama • BGN/PCGN: ma.ma. • Okell: mámá

Noun

မမ • (ma.ma.)

  1. (colloquial, honorific) term of endearment for females
  2. (regional, Danu) Synonym of အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”)[1]

Coordinate terms

References
  1. ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး [hkangcandatui:] (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက် [naunghkyuidesa.hri. dha.nu.desi.ya.ca.ka:hma. ne.canysum:ca.ka:mya:le.lahkyak]”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science‎ (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • mama (Latin script)
  • 𑀫𑀫 (Brahmi script)
  • मम (Devanagari script)
  • মম (Bengali script)
  • මම (Sinhalese script)
  • มม or มะมะ (Thai script)
  • ᨾᨾ (Tai Tham script)
  • ມມ or ມະມະ (Lao script)
  • មម (Khmer script)
  • 𑄟𑄟 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

မမ

  1. Burmese script form of mama, which is genitive/dative singular of အဟံ／ဢႁံ (ahaṃ, “me”)
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