Mama

Mama can mean several things:

• A brand of instant noodles.
• An alternative name for the Sumerian earth goddess Ninhursag.
• A sun god of the Chibchan-speaking peoples of Central America.
• The word for mother in many languages.
• The word for father in Georgian and Pitjantjatjara.
• The word for maternal uncle in Hindi and Bengali.
• The town of Mama, Yucatán, Mexico.
• At least two songs:
  • "Mama" introduced by Connie Francis in 1960
  • "Mama" introduced by The Spice Girls in 1997

Words phonetically similar to /ma/ or /mama/ are the term for mother in many languages of the world (including totally unrelated ones). See "Mama and papa" for a discussion of this phenomenon.

See also: Mama, 1960 in music, 1997 in music, Bengali, Central America, Chibchan, Connie Francis, Father, Georgian language