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Damma vs Bamma - What's the difference?

damma | bamma |

As nouns the difference between damma and bamma

is that damma is (linguistics) in arabic script, the vowel point for "u", appearing as a small curl placed above a letter immediately follows, it indicates a long /ū/ while bamma is an unstylish rural person; a hick.

damma

English

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • (linguistics) In Arabic script, the vowel point for "u", appearing as a small curl placed above a letter immediately follows, it indicates a long /?/.

    • See also

    * (Arabic diacritics) * fatha * kasra * sukun * shadda * tashkil

    Anagrams

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    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.”