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Mama was imported into Japan from American influence post-World War II, and is a less formal term for mother [59] In many other languages, similar pronunciations apply: Amma (அம்மா) or Thai (தாய்) in Tamil .
A baby mama (or baby momma, also baby mother) is a slang term for a mother who is not married to her child's father, although the term often carries other connotations as well. This term is associated with African Americans originally, coming from Jamaican Creole and finding its way into hip-hop music .
Mama, Russia, an urban-type settlement in the Mamsko-Chuysky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia . Mama Airport, an airport located near the settlement; Mama (river), a tributary of the Vitim of which the settlement takes its name
A "yo mama" joke or your mom joke is a form of humor involving a verbal disparaging of one's mother. Used as an insult, "your mother..." Used as an insult, "your mother..." preys on widespread sentiments of parental respect .
The mammy caricature was first seen in the 1830s in Antebellum pro-slavery literature, as a form to oppose the description of slavery given by abolitionists. [4] One of the earliest fictionalized versions of the mammy figure is Aunt Chloe in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852.
The stereotype is a Chinese mother who relentlessly drives her child to study hard, without regard for the child's social and emotional development. The notion of a "tiger parent" is analogous to other authoritarian parenting stereotypes, such as the American stage mother, the Japanese kyōiku mama, and the Jewish mother.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.