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In Korean "mam-ma" means food.

• enraged_camel 11y ago
  Very similar in Turkish! Minor difference: "mama". Mother is "ana" (traditional) or "anne" (contemporary).
  • utku_karatas2 11y ago
    You'd be surprised how similar Turkish and Korean actually is. Both coming from Altaic language group the grammatical structure is very similar. It blew my mind when I first learned about that. Take a look at this... yap-mak == ka-da yap-ma == ka-jima yap-ma-yin == ka-jima-yo They even have the same kinship rules as us (Abi, Abla, etc.). The more I'm digging in Korean culture the more similarities I'm finding during my short stay here.
• jeffwmair 11y ago
  And also in Korean to say mom is "oh-moh", with emphasis on the 'moh' part. Sounds like ma as in ma and pa.
• Steko 11y ago
  Important to remember both that the same word can mean different things in a language and that multiple words can mean the same thing. What a baby tends to call his mother in a language might not be the stock dictionary translation. In Korean, 엄마 (eomma) [ʌmma] and 아빠 (appa) are mom and dad in informal language... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa