Mama

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.
The word for maternal uncle in Hindi and Bengali.
The town of Mama, Yucatán, Mexico.

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.

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