ama

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mə/
• (Singapore English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mɑ/

From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.

ama (plural amas)

1. Alternative spelling of amah
   • 1910, Mary F. Roulet, The Spaniard at Home (page 14)

     Not only does the baby have a jewel then, or some handsome gift, but his ama (nurse) is remembered with a bright gold doubloon (sixteen dollars).

   • 2007, Ondina E. González, ‎Bianca Premo, Raising an Empire (page 143)

     Again as with Juan, shortly after the religious rite the children would be transferred to the care of wet nurses, or amas, who would take them into their individual homes.

   • 2013, Maria Aurora Couto, Filomena's Journey

     It was rumoured that she had been his ama, the wet nurse who then became part of the family, taking charge so effectively that she ruled the household.

From Japanese 海女 (ama).

ama (plural amas)

1. A traditional Japanese pearl diver, typically female.

From Polynesian.

ama (plural amas)

1. (nautical) The float on the outrigger of a proa or trimaran.

From Sanskrit अम (ama, “disease”).

ama (plural amas)

1. (Ayurveda) A toxic byproduct of improper or incomplete digestion.

Origin unknown.

ama (plural amas)

1. Fabric made from the hair of a camel or goat.

• AAM, aam, maa

ama

1. village

• Marc Augé, Le rivage alladian: organisation et évolution des villages alladian

Compare Mangbetu àmà.

ama

1. we

• Asoa Swadesh List

Onomatopoetic nursery-word, attested since the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): /aˈma/

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ama

1. mother
2. origin

ama

1. father

ama

1. third-person singular present indicative form of amar
2. second-person singular imperative form of amar

From Proto-Austronesian *ama.

ama

1. (obsolete) a male parent; a father

• (a father): amahan, papa, tatay

ama

1. now

ami +‎ -a

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ama (accusative singular aman, plural amaj, accusative plural amajn)

1. loving, with love, relating to or characterized by love

   ama rememoro / sento.

   loving memory / feeling of love.

   • Heinrich August Luyken, Stranga Heredaĵo, Ĉapitro 3,

     Per amaj, kunsentaj vortoj Leonardo sukcesis plie firmigi la konfidon de la junulo [...]

     Through loving, sympathetic words Leonardo managed to strengthen the youth’s trust [in him] further.

ama

1. third-person singular present indicative of amar
2. second-person singular imperative of amar

ama

1. rain

ama

1. man

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmɒ]
• Hyphenation: ama

ama

1. (archaic) that, as in yon or yonder

• eme

• Rhymes: -aːma

ama (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative amaði, supine amað)

1. to trouble

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ama

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/

ama

1. present of amar
2. imperative of amar

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈɑmˠə]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈamˠə]

ama m (genitive singular ama, nominative plural amaí)

1. yoke
2. (in plural) hames

ama m

1. genitive singular of am

• "ama" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

ama

1. third-person singular present indicative of amare
2. second-person singular imperative of amare

ama

1. Rōmaji transcription of あま

From Proto-Austronesian *ama

(classifier čô) ama

1. father

• IPA^(key): [aˈma]

ama

1. mother

• Meinke Salzer (1976), “Fonologia Provisória da Língua Kamayurá”, in Série Linguística, volume 5, pages 131–170

From Proto-Austronesian *amax.

ama

1. father

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “ama”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 5
• Lamboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

See hama.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/

ama f (genitive amae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of hama

First declension.

• ăma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ama in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2. AMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 3. AMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ăma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 108/3
• “ama” on page 112/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “ama”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 39/1

A regularly conjugated form of amō (“I love”, verb).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.maː/

amā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of amō

amá

1. father

ama

1. father

ama

1. but

   Dza uwana asal matəf gəl aŋha, adàziŋ ala, ama dza uwana az gəl aŋha ala kà gi, adàɓəl gəl aŋha. (Mata 16:25)[1]

   For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it. (Matthew 16:25)

ama (mutated form nama)

1. father

   amagu - my father

   amada - our (and also your) father[1]

ama (past amad, active participle amant, passive participle amat)

1. to love

ámá

1. human beings, people
2. members of the Nyimang people who speak the Ama dialect

• Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, issues 61-64, page 103: From the accompanying notes, I have these self-names: Nyimang ama-du wada 'ama (people)-of language' and [...]
• Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt, The Meroitic Language and Writing System (2012), page 80 (in notes)

• Hyphenation: am‧a

ama

1. to bother
2. to wound

ama f (genitive ǫmu, plural ǫmur)

1. a large amount, a ton

• ama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ama in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.mɐ/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma
• Rhymes: -ama

From Old Portuguese ama, from Medieval Latin amma, itself either from Ancient Greek ἄμμα (ámma), of imitative origin, or an alteration of mamma.

ama f (plural amas)

1. female nurse
2. female housekeeper
3. governess

• ama-de-leite
• ama-seca

ama

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of amar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of amar

ama

1. (imperative) do not, used with -chu

   Ama mikhuychu!

   Don't eat!

• mana

ama

1. old ruin

From Proto-Chamic *ʔama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *t-ama, from Proto-Austronesian *t-ama

• IPA^(key): /amaa/, [ʔəmaa]

ama

1. father

ama m

1. genitive singular of àm

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَّا‎ (ʾammā).

• IPA^(key): /âma/
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ȁma (Cyrillic spelling а̏ма)

1. but [from 18th c.]

• (but): ali

ama (Cyrillic spelling ама)

1. used to express impatience

ama

1. third-person singular present active indicative of amari
2. third-person singular present active subjunctive of amari
3. second-person singular imperative of amari

ama

1. or

• IPA^(key): /ˈama/

From Medieval Latin amma, itself either from Ancient Greek [Term?], of imitative origin, or an alteration of mamma.

ama f (plural amas, masculine amo, masculine plural amos)

1. lady of the house
2. proprietress
3. landlady
4. housekeeper, head maid
5. nursemaid, nanny
6. wetnurse
7. mistress

• The feminine noun ama is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el ama

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

• ama de casa

See the etymology of the main entry.

ama

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of amar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of amar.

From Arabic أَم‎ (ʾam).

ama

1. or

• au

From Proto-Austronesian *ama (compare Fijian tama).

amá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ)

1. father

ama

1. father

ama

1. mother
2. maternal aunt; one's mother's sister
3. mother-in-law; one's spouse's mother

From Ottoman Turkish اما‎ (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا‎ (ʾammā).

• IPA^(key): [əmə]
• Hyphenation: a‧ma

ama

1. but; however

ama

1. dative singular of am

• amları (3)

• amma
• âmâ

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /ˈʔämä/

ama

1. flute

• “ˀama” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

ama

1. water

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

From Proto-Austronesian *ama.

ama

1. father