Mama
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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.