From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmamama‧ma1, mamma, momma /ˈmɑːmə/ ●●○ noun [countable] American English SSFMOTHERa mother – used by or to children SYN mummy I want my mama!
Examples from the Corpus
mama• Just went around in my wrapper all the livelong day, my mama would faint.• Those children, no more than babies, and the mama had gone shopping and left on the oil-stove, no?• Your mama go out and buy you a brand new bike, that she could have bought at Christmas.mamama‧ma2 /məˈmɑː/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned motherExamples from the Corpus
mama• Just went around in my wrapper all the livelong day, my mama would faint.• Those children, no more than babies, and the mama had gone shopping and left on the oil-stove, no?• Your mama go out and buy you a brand new bike, that she could have bought at Christmas.Origin mama (1500-1600) From the sounds made by a baby 