The difference between Ma and Mamma

When used as nouns, ma means mother, mama, whereas mamma means the milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat.


Ma is also abbreviation with the meaning: may.

check bellow for the other definitions of Ma and Mamma

  1. Ma as a noun (astronomy, usually, in the plural):

  1. Ma as a noun (colloquial, and in direct address):

    mother, mama

  1. Mamma as a noun (anatomy):

    The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.

  2. Mamma as a noun (meteorology):

    an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

  1. Mamma as a noun:

    mother.

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