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Amma vs Bamma - What's the difference?

amma | bamma |

As nouns the difference between amma and bamma

is that amma is mother while bamma is {{cx|AAVE|slang|derogatory|lang=en}} An unstylish rural person; a hick.

amma

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • mother

    • Usage notes

    * Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

    See also

    * amah

    Etymology 2

    (lena) amma, probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare (etyl) ama, German Amme, nurse, Basque (ama) mother, (etyl), (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abbess or spiritual mother.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * English palindromes English terms derived from Malayalam English terms derived from Sinhalese ----

    bamma

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unstylish rural person; a hick.
  • * 2008 , "A Blessing in Disguise", A Real Black Woman is the Closest Thing to God (page 44)
    • A lot of dudes that I knew at that time use to think that guys from Maryland was bammas but I didn't sleep on nobody because even a bamma can pull a trigger. I always knew that even if a guy was from cotton ball land, he could still do damage.
  • * 2011 , Stan Long, Black Bird Medley: The Transformation of a Gangster (page 16)
    • Black didn't like them much. He said to me one day, “Stan, why do you hang around them bammas ?” Bamma meant “country” or “slow” or something of that nature.
  • * 2012 , Larry Moon Jr, Drama City (page 151)
    • “Man, there's a bamma that just came home from jail trying to intimidate and extort my youngins.”