Ammaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Related to Tamil அம்மா (ammā, “mother”), Hindi अम्मा (ammā), Malayalam അമ്മ (amma), Kannada ಅಮ್ಮ (amma, “mother”) Telugu అమ్మ (amma, “mother”), Sinhalese අම්මා (ammā, “mother”), or Classical Syriac ܐܡܐ (emma, “mother”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

amma (plural ammas)

1. (India) mother

使用する際の注意点

• Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

派生語

• amma canteen

参考

• amah

語源 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin amma, from Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, “mother, abbess”).

名詞

amma (plural ammas)

1. (Christianity, historical) An abbess or spiritual mother, especially one of the Desert Mothers.

   Coordinate term: abba

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:amma.

アナグラム

• ma ma, ma'am, mama

名詞

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. a nocturnal bird, perhaps the screech owl
   • c. 600, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, XII.vii.42:

     Haec avis [viz. strix] vulgo amma dicitur, ab amando parvulos; unde et lac praebere fertur nascentibus.

     This bird is commonly called amma [mum (?)], because it loves its young, and it is also said to offer milk to its hatchlings.

使用する際の注意点

• Based on etymological evidence and the reference to milk in the Isidore quote, it is suspected that this word actually meant “mother”, along similar lines to atta (“father”).

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• Catalan: ama
• Galician: ama
• Portuguese: ama
• Spanish: ama

語源 2

From Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, “mother, abbess”) via Koine Greek ἀμμᾶς (ammâs), ἀμμὰ (ammà), perhaps reinforced by Etymology 1.

名詞

amma f (genitive ammae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. amma; a spiritual mother or abbess in early monasticism, a Desert Mother

   Coordinate term: abba

   Vita Ammae Talidae ― The Life of Amma Talida

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “ama”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 226

Further reading

• "amma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “amma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949), “amma”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 13