mami

Borrowed from Spanish mami.

mami (plural mamis)

1. (chiefly Latin America, Philippines) mommy, mother
2. (chiefly Latin America) attractive woman; momma
3. (chiefly Latin America) a term of affection for a woman

Borrowed from Tagalog mami, from Hokkien. Doublet of bakmi.

mami (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) A soup dish of wheat noodles or cellophane noodles mixed with meat of either pork, chicken, pork liver, beef brisket, and/or fresh or dried seafood such as shrimp or squid, and/or wonton dumplings, and vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, spring onion, etc.

   Synonym: pancit mami

   • 2003, Ma. Romina M. Gonzalez, Welostit and Other Stories, page 51:

     One brought two boxes of instant mami noodles.

   • 2008, Priscelina Patajo-Legasto, Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?, page 369:

     When her awaited bus arrives, she passes up instant mami noodles for a chance to dip her hand in a box of old shoes.

   • 2013, Ed S. Teovisio, The 8 Streams of Confluent Learning to Personal Effectiveness, page 22:

     A new era came in the 90's when the Generation Y (Gen Y), born in the mid-70's to mid-80's, started trickling into the urban development craze with the booming of malls and instant products from instant mami to instant coffee to instant beauty.

• I'mma, Imam, Imma, imam, imma, maim

mami

1. mom
2. midwife

mami

1. inflection of mamar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈmamɪ]

mami f (indeclinable)

1. mom, mum

   Synonyms: matka, maminka

• Singular only. Usually only used in the vocative case.

• tati

• “mami”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mami”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mami”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From English mommy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmi/, [ˈmɑ̝mi]
• Rhymes: -ɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧mi
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧mi

mami (colloquial)

1. mom, mum

mami

1. plural of mamo

mami

1. Rōmaji transcription of まみ

mami

1. species of possum

• IPA^(key): /mami/

From French mamie.

mami

1. grandmother

   Synonym: granmer

From Marathi मामी (māmī).

mami

1. aunt, particularly maternal uncle's wife

   Synonym: matant

From English mammy.

mami

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.mi/
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ma‧mi

mami

1. third-person singular present of mamić

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈmi/, [ma.ˈmi]

mami

1. pomelo

• IPA^(key): /ˈmami/ [ˈma.mi]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ma‧mi

mami f (plural mamis)

1. (childish, endearing, informal) mommy
2. (Central America, Philippines) mother
3. (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) attractive woman; momma
4. (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) a term of affection for a woman
5. (Peru) a woman who runs a brothel; a madame
6. (Honduras, derogatory) a homosexual man

• “mami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• bami

Borrowed from Hokkien, either:

• 肉麵 / 肉面 (mah-mī, “meat and noodles soup”, literally “meat and noodles”), according to Chan-Yap (1980). Compare Cebuano bam-i, Indonesian bakmi, Javanese ꦧꦏ꧀ꦩꦶ (bakmi), Dutch bami. See also Hokkien 牛肉麵 / 牛肉面 (gû-mah-mī, “beef noodles”).
• 馬麵 / 马面 (má mī, literally “Ma’s noodles”), noodles peddled by Ma Mon Luk (馬文祿 ／ 马文禄, Cantonese Yale: Máh Màhn-luhk; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má Bûn Lo̍k) in his restaurant since the 1920s in Binondo, Manila.

Manuel (1948) also records an entry, providing the definitions and pronunciation of Hokkien 肉麵 / 肉面 (mah-mī, “meat and noodles soup”, literally “meat and noodles”), but misidentifies it as Cantonese.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmami/ [ˈmaː.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ma‧mi

mami (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜋᜒ)

1. mami (a soup dish of wheat noodles or cellophane noodles mixed with various meat and vegetables)

• “mami”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “mami”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 138
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 40

• imam

mami

1. type of yam