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Off topic: How to say "Mama" in foreign languages Thread poster: Isabel Hohneck
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Uldis Liepkalns 
Latvia
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English to Latvian
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mamma, māte, māmiņa.
Uldis
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Juliana Brown
Israel
Local time: 05:28
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| Hebrew is Ima | Dec 13, 2008 |
but if you are feeling more emotional/loving it's the diminutive "Imaleh". My 4 year old has taken it one step further and if she wants something it's "Imush" or "Imalush".
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Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
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Dutch to English
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In Dutch it is Mamma or Mammie or Mam for short. There is also Moes or Moesje and there may be regional variations as well.
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| In Hindi and Bengali | Dec 13, 2008 |
In hindi it is 'माँ' (Ma) and in Bengali it is 'মা' (Ma)
My one and a half year old has just started talking and calls me 'mamma'
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mama, ayi or yema that's what I usually use
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Karl Apsel
Ireland
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Member (2001)
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it's 'Mama', 'Mami' or also 'Mutti' (I guess shortening the word "Mutter" = "mother")
[Edited at 2008-12-13 02:19 GMT]
[Edited at 2008-12-13 02:22 GMT]
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Adriana I. S.
France
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| In Yiddish and in Hungarian | Dec 13, 2008 |
In Yiddish is "mame".
In Hungarian "anya".
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aronakos
United States
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English to Hungarian
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| In Hungarian: anya | Dec 13, 2008 |
other versions are: édesanya, anyu
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sarandor
United States
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| In Sakha (Turkic language) | Dec 13, 2008 |
= Iye (eeje)
My mom = iyem
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we call her"MOR" in Danish
Kind regards
Birgitte
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| In Korean, Omma | Dec 13, 2008 |
Pronunciation: "O" as in lOve.
Seems like this Korean equivalent hasn't been posted yet.
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Alma Ahmetovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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mother = majka, mati, mater
mom = mama, mamica
"majka" can be used for both, mother and grandmother but then the vocative case would be:
"majko" if it means "mother"
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"majka" if it means "grandmother"
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Mother - matka
Mama is simply mama (vocative "mamo")
Mummy - "mamusia", "mamunia"
There are also other forms "mateczka", "matula", "matusia", "maminka" etc. but they are not as popular as the other ones, some of them are more old-fashioned or appear mainly in literature.
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Istiani Prajoko
Indonesia
Local time: 16:28
Member (2008)
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In Javanese, some dialects use buke, embok, simbok, biyung
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