mama

mama

(taboo curse) damn it!

(coll.) mother's sister

mommy (loanword)

father's elder brother's wife

(coll.) father's married sister

adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

grandma (paternal) (Tw)

wet nurse

(coll.) stepmother

Mazu (Chinese goddess of the sea)

Macao

ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)

Mazu temple

amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia)

bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

smallpox