אמא

• Syriac: ܐܡܐ

From Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-.

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛmɑʔ/

אמא • (transliteration needed) f (plural אמהתא, singular masculine counterpart אבא)

1. mother
   • בראשית רבה ע, טז

     [כט, יז] ״וְעֵינֵי לֵאָה רַכּוֹת״, אֲמוֹרָאֵיהּ דְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן תִּרְגֵּם קוֹדְמוֹי: וְעֵינֵי לֵאָה הֲווֹ רַכִּיכִין, אֲמַר לֵיהּ: עֵינוֹהִי דְּאִימָּךְ הֲווֹ רַכִּיכִין

• → Ancient Greek: ἀμμά (ammá)
  • → Coptic: ⲁⲙⲁ (ama)
• → Hebrew: אִמָּא (íma)

• “ˀm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from Aramaic אִמָּא (ʾimmā).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔima/, /ˈima/

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אִמָּא • ('íma) f (plural indefinite אמהות, masculine counterpart אבא)

1. mother

This word, just as אַבָּא (ába, “dad”), never takes the definite article, as it always refers to a specific and to the speaker known person, meaning that it is definite by itself.

• אֵם (em) (less common, more formal)

• אמא׳לה (ímale)

• אמא on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he