Difference between revisions of "mama"

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===Etymology===
 
===Etymology===
 
From English: ''mama''
 
From English: ''mama''
===Pronunciation===
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===Pronunciation 2===
 
* mámà
 
* mámà
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-mama.f.ogg</sm2>  
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-mama.f.ogg</sm2>  
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-mama.m.ogg</sm2>
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-mama.m.ogg</sm2>
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===Adjective===
 
===Adjective===
 
Woman wey too sabi someting.
 
Woman wey too sabi someting.

Revision as of 15:28, 16 March 2021

Naija

Etymology

From English: mama

Pronunciation

  • māmá


Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 85
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 159
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 1850
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 206



Noun

  1. Person mother.
    • Abeg na person mama be dat.  — (NST_cleaned__8134, Please is that someones mother?)
    • Mama and pikin dey well.  — (bbc__59707, Both mother and child are well.)
  2. Woman wey don old.
    • Na wetin one mama for Japan do.  — (jw__21118, That was what a particular old woman in Japan did.)
    • You be old mama now,  — (NST_cleaned__11552, You are an old woman now.)

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: mother



Etymology

From English: mama

Pronunciation 2

  • mámà


Adjective

Woman wey too sabi someting.

  • mama tailor .  — (NST_cleaned__36576, A veteran in tailoring.)

Synonyms

Translations

  • English: veteran