lady · madam (woman who manages a brothel) · the police
çekim: çoğul madame
köken: Borrowed from French madame or Calque of French madame. Sense two derives from the fact that during the mid-19ᵗʰ century, the main police headquarters in Turin were seated in Palazzo Madama.
köken: Etymology tree Bavarian Beiselbor. Silesian bajzelbor. Polish bajzel Proto-Indo-European *méh₂meh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ Proto-Slavic *màma Old Polish mama Polish mama Polish bajzelmama From bajzel + mama. First attested in 1928.
köken: Diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *amma, *ama (“mother”), a lost baby-word of the papa-type; compare amō (“to love”), Old High German amma (“wet nurse”).
From Middle High German muome, from Old High German muoma, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”). Cognate with German Muhme, Middle English mome (“aunt, affectionate term for an older woman”), English mom (“mother”).