Tazama chanzo cha Mama

[[File:Mother and daughter smiling.jpg|thumb|200px|Mama na mtoto wakifurahi pamoja.]]
[[File:MonumentoMadre.JPG|thumb|200px|right|''Monumento a la Madre'' (yaani ''Mnara kwa heshima ya Mama'') huko [[Mexico City]]. Maandishi yake yanasema: "Kwa yule aliyetupenda kabla hajakutana nasi".]]
[[File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Charity (1878).jpg|200px|thumb|right|''Upendo'' ulivyochorwa na [[Mfaransa]] [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]].]]
'''Mama''' ni [[mwanamke]] anayemlea [[mtoto]] hasa [[uzazi|aliyemzaa]] mwenyewe, lakini pengine sivyo, lakini anamlea. 
Upande wa pili anatarajiwa kuwepo [[baba]], yaani [[mwanamume]] aliyeshirikiana naye katika kuzaa au anashirikiana naye katika kulea. 

Wale ambao si wazazi wanaitwa ka kawaida "mama wa kambo" na "baba wa kambo". 

Katika [[historia]] na [[utamaduni]] wa ma[[kabila]] na ma[[taifa]] mengi, umama ni sifa maalumu ya mwanamke inayotangaza kuwa amekomaa na kukamilika kwa kuendeleza [[uhai]] wa [[binadamu]] kadiri anavyoelekezwa na [[umbile]] lake upande wa [[mwili]] na wa [[nafsi]].

[[Wastani]] wa [[idadi]] ya watoto wanaozaliwa na mwanamke mmoja unatofautiana sana: [[mwaka]] [[2013]] ule mkubwa zaidi ulipatikana [[Niger]] (7.03 watoto waliozaliwa na kila mwanamke) na ule ndogo zaidi [[Singapore]] (0.79 tu).<ref name="cia.gov">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html |title=Nakala iliyohifadhiwa |accessdate=2015-03-08 |archivedate=2009-10-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028133713/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html |=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028133713/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html }}</ref>

Jina hilo au lingine la kufanana linatumika katika [[lugha]] nyingi duniani, kwa sababu "neno la kwanza" la mtoto ni "ma" au "mama".

Kwa Kiswahili neno "mama" pia hutumika kama neno la heshima kwa wanawake hasa wa umri mkubwa kiasi. Mara nyingi hutumiwa pia ndani ya familia na mume kumwita mke wake. 

==Tanbihi==
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==Marejeo==
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* {{cite book |last=Thornhill |first=Randy |last2=Gangestad |first2=Steven W. |title=The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5uVUwCE3Vm4C&dq=The+Evolutionary+Biology+of+Human+Female+Sexuality&printsec=frontcover&ct=result#PPP13,M1}}
* {{cite book |last=Manne |first=Anne |title=Motherhood – How should we care for our children? |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KHdpcmuXB_oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=motherhood}}
* {{cite book |last=Hrdy |first=Sarah Blaffer |authorlink=Sarah Blaffer Hrdy |title=Mother nature: maternal instincts and how they shape the human species |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DcCOAAAAIAAJ&q=motherhood+biology&dq=motherhood+biology&pgis=1}}
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==Viungo vya nje==
{{Commons category|Mothers}}

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