# mom
## English
### Alternative forms

* mam
* Mom
* mum, Mum (Australian, British, Irish)

### Etymology

Abbreviation of momma

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɒm/
* (US) enPR: mŏm, IPA: /mɑm/, [mɑ̃m]
* (Canada) IPA: /mɒm/, /mʌm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒm

### Noun

mom (plural moms)
* (Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
** (by extension) used as a term of address for one's wife
*** 2017, Allstate: All Alone‎:(spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?
* (informal) An adult female owner of a pet.

#### Usage notes

* Mom can be capitalized when used as a proper noun, but not when used as a common noun (e.g. with a possessive):
    I think Mom likes my new car.
    I think my mom will like you.

#### Derived terms

* almond mom
* angel mom
* ballet mom
* boy mom
* crunchy mom
* grandmom
* granola mom
* helicopter mom
* hockey mom
* insta-mom
* listmom
* momager
* mom and apple pie
* mom-and-pop
* mom and pop
* mom and them
* mombie
* mom blogger
* mom bod
* mom cave
* momic
* mom-in-law
* momism
* mom jeans
* momnesia
* momoir
* mompreneur
* momsy
* mom test
* momtini
* momtrepreneur
* momzilla
* Octomom
* refrigerator mom
* scrunchy mom
* security mom
* silky mom
* soccer mom
* stage mom
* stepmom
* tiger mom
* Twimom
* waitress mom
* wine mom
* your mom

#### See also

* Mother’s Day
* Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

### Verb

mom (third-person singular simple present moms, present participle momming, simple past and past participle mommed)
* (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To care for in a motherly way.
** 2019, Marie Johnston, Finish Line:The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me.
** 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎, Hachette, →ISBN:He tried to tell me how to live, to mom me, I told him fuck off, […]

### References

* ↑ https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/m_en_ca0044644?rskey=bMI4cv&result=44621

### Anagrams

* MMO

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mom f or m or n (plural mommen, diminutive mommetje n)
* mask
* a specific kind of beer

#### Derived terms

* mombakkes
* mommer
* vermommen

## Nisenan
### Noun

mom
* water

### References

* Andrew Eatough, Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English mom.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mɔm˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [mɔm˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mɔm˧˧]

### Noun

mom
* (Internet slang) mom
    Synonym: mẹ
    Có mom nào như em không ạ?Is there any mom out there like me?

### Pronoun

mom
* (Internet slang) I/me, your mother
* (Internet slang) you, my mother
* (Internet slang) you, a fellow mother
* (Internet slang) you, a fellow woman

## White Hmong
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 帽 (mào, “hat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɒ˩̰/

### Noun

mom
* used in kaus mom (“hat, cap, helmet”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 130.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25