mama

Naija

Etymology

From English: mama

Pronunciation 1

• 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.)

Related forms

mamalet

Synonyms

• male

Antonyms

• pale, papa

Translations

• English: mother

Pronunciation 2

• mámà

Adjective

Woman wey too sabi someting.

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

Synonyms

• oga

Translations

• English: veteran