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In Korean "mam-ma" means food.

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

And also in Korean to say mom is "oh-moh", with emphasis on the 'moh' part. Sounds like ma as in ma and pa.

Very similar in Turkish! Minor difference: "mama".

Mother is "ana" (traditional) or "anne" (contemporary).

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.

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