mama
意味
- =mamma
- 《小児語》おかあちゃん(mother)
例文
Mama seems to have started with French.
お母さんがフランス語始めたっぽい。
Mama, is it okay if I go swimming?
お母さん、泳ぎに行ってもいい？
Mama, Tom won't gimme back my toy!
ママ、トムがぼくのおもちゃ返してくれない！
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is probably a reduplication of ma, thought to be a sound made by babies when breastfeeding. The word is possibly influenced by Middle French maman (“mother”) (modern French maman), mamme (both probably from Latin mamma (“breast; nurse; (childish) mother, mama; grandmother”), probably cognate with Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mắmmē, “breast; (childish) mother, mama; (Koine) grandmother”), both possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to nurse; mama, mother”)), but this is also uncertain as all the words could have developed independently as onomatopoeias.