Mama
Mama can mean several things:
- A brand of instant noodles.
- An alternative name for the Sumerian earth goddess Ninhursag.
- A sun god of the Chibchan-speaking peoples of Central America.
- The word for mother in many languages.
- The word for father in Georgian.
- The word for maternal uncle in Hindi and Bengali.
- The town of Mama, Yucatán, Mexico.
Words phonetically similar to /ma/ or /mama/ are the term for mother in many languages of the world (including totally unrelated ones). See "Mama and papa" for a discussion of this phenomenon.
Categories: Disambiguation