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ma⋅ma

  [mah-muh; for 1 also muh-mah]
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–noun
1. Informal. mother.
2. Slang.
a. a sexually attractive, usually mature woman.
b. one's wife.
Also, mamma.

Origin:
1545–55; nursery word, with parallels in other European languages, prob. in part inherited or borrowed, in part newly formed; cf. L mamma, Gk mámmē breast, mama (see mamma 2 ), F maman mama, Welsh mam mother (< *mammā)
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ma·ma or mam·ma also mom·ma   (mä'mə)   
n.  
  1. also (mə-mä') Informal Mother.
  2. Slang
    1. A woman.
    2. A wife.

[Of baby-talk origin; see mā-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Mama

Ma*ma"\, n. See Mamma.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : mama
Spanish: pecho, seno, mama,
German: die Brust,
Japanese: 乳房
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mama 
early 19c. spelling variant of mamma (q.v.). Meaning "sexually attractive woman" first recorded 1925 in black slang; mama's boy "soft, effeminate male" is from 1896.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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