(animate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive ama ama amak ergative amak amak amek dative amari amari amei genitive amaren amaren amen comitative amarekin amarekin amekin causative amarengatik amarengatik amengatik benefactive amarentzat amarentzat amentzat instrumental amaz amaz amez inessive amarengan amarengan amengan allative amarengana amarengana amengana terminative amarenganaino amarenganaino amenganaino directive amarenganantz amarenganantz amenganantz destinative amarenganako amarenganako amenganako ablative amarengandik amarengandik amengandik partitive amarik - - prolative amatzat - -

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Bolinao

Noun

ama

1. father

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Catalan

Verb

ama

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian.

Noun

ama

1. (obsolete) A father.

Synonyms

• (a father): amahan, papa, tatay

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Esperanto

Etymology

ami +‎ -a

Adjective

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

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

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Galician

Verb

ama

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

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Guaraní

Noun

ama

1. rain

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Hoyahoya

Noun

ama

1. man

Reference

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

ama

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

See also

• eme

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Icelandic

Verb

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

1. to trouble

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/

Verb

ama

1. present of amar
2. imperative of amar

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Irish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

ama m ‎(genitive singular ama, nominative plural amaí)

1. yoke
2. (in plural) hames

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

ama m

1. genitive singular of am

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ama	n-ama	hama	t-ama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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Italian

Verb

ama

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

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Japanese

Romanization

ama

1. rōmaji reading of あま

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Jarai

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ama

Noun

(classifier čô) ama

1. father

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Kamayurá

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈma]

Noun

ama

1. mother

References

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

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Latin

Etymology 1

See hama.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ma/

Noun

ama f ‎(genitive amae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of hama

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ama	amae
genitive	amae	amārum
dative	amae	amīs
accusative	amam	amās
ablative	amā	amīs
vocative	ama	amae

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ăma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 108/3.
• “ama” on page 112/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “ama” on page 39/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.maː/

Verb

amā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of amō

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Nias

Noun

ama ‎(mutated form nama)

1. father

   amagu - my father

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

References

1. ↑ Brown, Lea (1997) "Nominal Mutation in Nias." In Odé, Cecilia & Wim Stokhof Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, p. 398. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-0253-0

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Novial

Verb

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

1. to love

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Old Norse

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: am‧a

Verb

ama

1. to bother

Noun

ama f (genitive ǫmu, plural ǫmur)

1. a large amount, a ton

References

• 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)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ama f (plural amas)

1. female nurse
2. female housekeeper
3. governess

Derived terms

• ama-de-leite
• ama-seca

Etymology 2

Verb

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

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Quechua

Adverb

ama

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

   Ama mikhuychu!

   Don't eat!

See also

• mana

Noun

ama

1. old ruin

Declension

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Rade

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ama

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaa/ [ʔəmaa]]

Noun

ama

1. father

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

ama m

1. genitive singular of àm

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From Arabic amma.

Conjunction

ȁma ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̏ма)

1. but [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (but): ali

Interjection

ama ‎(Cyrillic spelling ама)

1. used to express impatience

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Sicilian

Verb

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

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Somali

Conjunction

ama

1. or

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

ama f ‎(plural amas, masculine amo)

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

Usage notes

• 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 intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Related terms

• ama de casa
• amo
• dueña

Verb

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.

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic أَم ‎(ʾam).

Conjunction

ama

1. or

Synonyms

• au

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian, compare Fijian tama.

Noun

ama

1. father

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Thao

Noun

ama

1. father

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Torres Strait Creole

Noun

ama

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

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

ama

1. but; however

Noun

ama

1. dative singular of am

Synonyms

• amları (3)

See also

• amma
• âmâ

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Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /ˈʔämä/

Noun

ama

1. flute

References

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

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Uri

Noun

ama

1. water

References

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