"bama" meaning in All languages combined

See bama on Wiktionary

Noun [Bambara]

Head templates: {{head|bm|noun}} bama
  1. crocodile

Noun [English]

Forms: bamas [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bama (plural bamas)
  1. Alternative form of bamma (“an unstylish rural person; a hick”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bamma (extra: an unstylish rural person; a hick)
    Sense id: en-bama-en-noun-DSA0Mc7N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Guugu Yimidhirr]

IPA: /bama/
Etymology: Cognate with Kuku-Yalanji bama. Etymology templates: {{cog|gvn|bama}} Kuku-Yalanji bama Head templates: {{head|kky|noun}} bama
  1. person
    Sense id: en-bama-kky-noun-OKgeh-eW Categories (other): Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header: 55 45
  2. Aboriginal
    Sense id: en-bama-kky-noun-AJu4SVWW Categories (other): Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: yambaal

Noun [Jamamadí]

Head templates: {{head|jaa|noun}} bama
  1. (Banawá) catfish Tags: Banawá
    Sense id: en-bama-jaa-noun-nBiA-SKf Categories (other): Jamamadí entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Catfish

Noun [Mudburra]

Head templates: {{head|dmw|noun}} bama
  1. adze
    Sense id: en-bama-dmw-noun-ghFRJXYN Categories (other): Mudburra entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Tools

Noun [Warungu]

IPA: /pama/
Head templates: {{head|wrg|noun}} bama
  1. man
    Sense id: en-bama-wrg-noun-SLZ24rEH Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Warungu entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "bamas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bama (plural bamas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "an unstylish rural person; a hick",
          "word": "bamma"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              42,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 79:",
          "text": "I had already exposed myself. A backwoods bama, a Bible thumper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bamma (“an unstylish rural person; a hick”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-en-noun-DSA0Mc7N",
      "links": [
        [
          "bamma",
          "bamma#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bm",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Bambara",
  "lang_code": "bm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Bambara entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bm",
          "name": "Crocodilians",
          "orig": "bm:Crocodilians",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "crocodile"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-bm-noun-AnZvMALq",
      "links": [
        [
          "crocodile",
          "crocodile"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "gvn",
        "2": "bama"
      },
      "expansion": "Kuku-Yalanji bama",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with Kuku-Yalanji bama.",
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "kky",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Guugu Yimidhirr",
  "lang_code": "kky",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "person"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-kky-noun-OKgeh-eW",
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Aboriginal"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-kky-noun-AJu4SVWW",
      "links": [
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bama/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "yambaal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jaa",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamamadí",
  "lang_code": "jaa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamamadí entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "jaa",
          "name": "Catfish",
          "orig": "jaa:Catfish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "catfish"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-jaa-noun-nBiA-SKf",
      "links": [
        [
          "catfish",
          "catfish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Banawá) catfish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Banawá"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dmw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mudburra",
  "lang_code": "dmw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mudburra entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "dmw",
          "name": "Tools",
          "orig": "dmw:Tools",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "adze"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-dmw-noun-ghFRJXYN",
      "links": [
        [
          "adze",
          "adze"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wrg",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Warungu",
  "lang_code": "wrg",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Warungu entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "man"
      ],
      "id": "en-bama-wrg-noun-SLZ24rEH",
      "links": [
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pama/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bm",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Bambara",
  "lang_code": "bm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bambara entries with incorrect language header",
        "Bambara lemmas",
        "Bambara nouns",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "bm:Crocodilians"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "crocodile"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crocodile",
          "crocodile"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bamas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bama (plural bamas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "an unstylish rural person; a hick",
          "word": "bamma"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
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            [
              42,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 79:",
          "text": "I had already exposed myself. A backwoods bama, a Bible thumper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bamma (“an unstylish rural person; a hick”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bamma",
          "bamma#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Guugu Yimidhirr entries with incorrect language header",
    "Guugu Yimidhirr generic nouns",
    "Guugu Yimidhirr lemmas",
    "Guugu Yimidhirr nouns",
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gvn",
        "2": "bama"
      },
      "expansion": "Kuku-Yalanji bama",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with Kuku-Yalanji bama.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kky",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Guugu Yimidhirr",
  "lang_code": "kky",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "person"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Aboriginal"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bama/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "yambaal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jaa",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamamadí",
  "lang_code": "jaa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamamadí entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamamadí lemmas",
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        "jaa:Catfish"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "catfish"
      ],
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        [
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          "catfish"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Banawá) catfish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Banawá"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dmw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "dmw",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "Mudburra entries with incorrect language header",
        "Mudburra lemmas",
        "Mudburra nouns",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "dmw:Tools"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "adze"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adze",
          "adze"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wrg",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bama",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Warungu entries with incorrect language header",
        "Warungu lemmas",
        "Warungu nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "man"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pama/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bama"
}

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