大妈 | dà mā | father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | |
姨妈 | yí mā | (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt | |
奶妈 | nǎi mā | wet nurse | |
姑妈 | gū mā | (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt | |
阿妈 | ā mā | grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father |
1 | Mother wants you to go to her. | |
2 | No one in my family can touch my mother in cooking. | |
3 | Maybe if we butter up mother, she' ll let us go to the movies. | |
4 | Go away, and play on the stairs till father and mother be ready! | |
5 | He had died that morning, but because I had an A-level drama exam in the evening no one told me what had happened until much later, when I was back at home with my mum. |