Definitions
n. Mother.
Example Sentences
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"My ima taught me how light candles on Friday night."
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Languages of Origin
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
אמא (or אימא) íma
- Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
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- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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Alternative Spellings
imma, ima, ema
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