ma

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (informal) mother

   Ma called us in for supper at dusk.

Simplified etymology

Ma, recorded from the early 19th century, arose from the simple ma sound commonly made by young children. It belongs to the same nursery-word family as mama, mum, mom, and mummy, and mother probably has a comparable distant origin.

A nursery word, shortened from mama, of imitative origin reflecting an infant's early babbling syllable; paralleled across many languages.

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